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Releasing Skeletons
As the new family was four floors above with smiles on their faces, the receptionist was staring at the clock in front of her. Anxiously waiting for the minute hand to strike 12, she pulled out her phone and scrolled down to the B's.
"Bradley...Brent," she continued scrolling through her contacts with one eye on her phone and the other on the clock. Finally reaching her intended target, she breathed a sigh of relief as work was finally over. She stood up to clock out while she sent a text message to her cousin. "howd the game go?"
She took a glance at the surrondings around her as she stepped foot outside. The sun was setting, the January snow was melting - it was just another day in the life of a single woman at Syracuse. Reaching for her keys, she pulled out her phone to see that her cousin replied. "we won 75-65. really sloppy game."
"A win's a win, I guess," she thought and then started to text her back. "at least we won i guess. howd woy do?" She, like most of the campus of Syracuse, had caught onto Woy mania and adopted him as her favorite player.
Quickly she received a reply that shocked her. "fouled out...didnt see him in the arena 4 the last few minutes of the game." Fouling out is understandable, but leaving the arena in the middle of the game? What was going on that he had to leave? She went to reply then received another text. "i got a pic of him going back to the locker room early tho."
Then it hit her. What time did Ethan come into the hospital? There's no way he could have made it in time without leaving the game early. She quickly messaged back, revealing an answer her cousin has been looking for a while. "he came into work. said his girl was having their baby finally."
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Britt smiled and replied. "perfect. thats exactly what i need for my story." Over the last few months, Britt and Ethan's connection broke off and it got to the point that he would stop showing up for their scheduled tutoring sessions. She couldn't figure it out; why would he still want to be with Melyssa when she was the one that saved his life? Does she even know about the attempted suicide?
She's guilty; she knew she was jealous of Melyssa. From the first time she laid eyes on Ethan, she wanted to find out more - more about his personality, his experiences, his life in general. She thought that they would be the great together and she went out of her way to make sure he was alright. The party that first week, the conversation in the hospital, the tutoring sessions - what was it that could get him to fall into her lap?
Her older cousin Candace texted her back three minutes later. ":-) glad i could help out." With the information on the table - both from Candace and her experiences with the superstar, she had to ask herself this: would it be worth it to risk not only his happiness, but an engaged couple's happiness with the revelation of the skeltons hiding in his closet? Or should she just report the information given to her and not think twice about it? What to do, what to do?
She took a deep breath and started typing away, knowing the aftermath of what she was about to reveal.
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