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LOLA JAYE
While You Were Dreaming
If friends are the family you choose–
this one’s for my sisters!
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I tried my best not to puke up my lunch, standing in the doorway, watching the man I was supposed to love having sex with another woman.
A cauldron of emotion sloshed about within me–disbelief, denial, anger–before the inevitable star of the show, Acceptance, finally appeared, letting me know that this was real and it was happening. To me. With my boyfriend and with a woman I had trusted.
If only it was possible to teleport back in time, say, to twenty minutes ago, when I was sitting in a cafe across the road, tucking into a giant piece of chocolate cake and daydreaming. Well, in fact I’d been daydreaming most of the day–in between thinking about all the massive things that needed changing in my life. Things I had previously been so scared of discussing but suddenly felt more ready than ever to talk about.
But here I stood, watching my boyfriend’s
