Emerald   “I still can't believe it was him, ” I said, setting the throw pillows on the couch. “It was something out of a movie, trust me.”

    Emerald   “Good to have you back, ” Sandra said with a small smile. “How did the party go?”  

  Emerald   I still couldn’t believe we spoke to each other after so many times I’d planned a meeting point in my head where I had moved and looked happy and now that it played out in reality, I looked like a loser and he looked happy.  

Emerald I was headed to the restaurant that had had great doughnuts the second day the curse took its course, alone after a long, boring class. When I stepped in, my eyes immediately found a certain someone, alone. James in all his six foot one foot glory sat alone at the table with a book. It kind of felt odd. Or what felt the most odd was me actually striding in and getting a seat. A person in the right frame of mind would have probably chosen somewhere else, yes? But there I was thinking I was in the right frame of mind. After ordering a burger and chocolate ice cream, I took the table at the far end, hoping he wouldn't see me. Wrong move. I had had just one bite when I found him looking at me with a burger in my mouth. Never liked eating out. Or an ex sitting tables away, watching me devour beefy, delicious burger and licking my hands filled with ketchup. At first it was annoying, but... fuck it. That dude had taken a lot from me, I wasn't going to let him deny me of ea

  James   I should've agreed to leave the moment she offered to drive me home, but there I was, in a crowd of three that didn't like my gut. Not like I did either. The two guys especially. But I became more subtle when I saw Mimi all over the ebony haired guy, whose name I had discovered was Steve, leaving the other to be my biggest threat.