Maria sat in her apartment staring into the void that had become her life. These funks that she seemed to slip into more and more these days were certainly not doing her any favors. It just annoyed her every time she thought of Kevin and his new girlfriend. It wasn't like he technically was hers. They were just friends. She had known him her entire life. Somewhere along the way, he became more than a guy. She started to view him as a man.
It wasn't a hard thing to do. He was fairly tall, golden skinned as a result of his mixed Anglican and African heritage, and dark haired. His big brown eyes and pouty full lips made the butterflies in her stomach dance every time she glanced at him. He wasn't aware of that, though. Was he? As far as she knew, all he thought about her was that she was his best friend for life.
It didn't matter, now. He was Angelica's. Hard to believe that he could have such poor taste in a girlfriend. Angelica was such a superficial twit, but Kevin thought she was "hot" and that's all it took.
"Maria!" she heard a voice booming from the other side of her front door. She knew that sexy baritone.
"Kevin.....what the fuck are you doing here?" she asked as she opened the door and pulled him inside.
"I need some advice on my relationship." she heard him slur obviously intoxicated.
"I think you need to sleep it off, hun." She said ushering him toward her bedroom.
She had slept beside him many times before. They had spent the night at each others houses as kids, even crashed each other's dorms in college just to talk problems out, so having him in her bed wouldn't mean a thing.
"She says she wants me to have a better job so I can be prepared to meet her parents." He said pausing for a response.
"Do you think you need a different job?" Maria asked
"Of course not, but love is about compromising isn't it?" he asked as he sat down on her bed.
Love? The words stung her the minute they spilled from his beautiful mouth. How could he love her? They'd only been going out a month or so, and from was she'd seen of Sarah, she was a horrible example of a human being...in a short skirt albeit. "Well, yeah. If you love her, then compromise is important." Maria said shakily.
"I don't know." He said as he kicked his shoes off.