Barbara sat staring at the manila envelope on her
laptop. She had come home determined to
finish what she had set her mind on, but it was easier said than done. Could she really muster up the strength to do
this? Just throw all those memories away
after all these years?
"Stop
laughing!"
"It's funny
though," Michael said, clicking on the mouse to zoom in closer to a
picture of Barbara, so he could see her teeth clearly. "Look at those
amazing set of rabbit teeth!"
"You know I feel
insecure about them," Barbara pouted, folding her arms across her chest,
"You're such a jerk."
Michael continued to
smile, zooming in even closer, "Definitely Facebook worthy."
He maneuvered the
mouse over to the Explorer icon.
"No!"
Barbara shrieked, pushing his hand off the mouse, "I won't talk to you
anymore if you do that."
"Hah! You say
that, but you'll be calling me as soon as you leave here. You're too weak." Michael said, flashing
her his devilish grin again as he closed up the picture and turned off the
computer. He then got up from his chair
and pulled Barbara in his arms, "But I don't like to try my luck with you
being so stubborn sometimes."
Stubborn. That's what
Barbara was. Yet, Michael put up with
her because he had cared about her.
"Do you love
me?"
"You know the
answer, so why do you have to ask?"
"I just like to
check sometimes, just in case you don't love me anymore," Barbara said
puling the car into the parking lot at Harold's, the local grocery store.
Michael sighed.
Insecure. Barbara was
that too.
She tried not to be, but after being cheated on by her last
boyfriend, she had never been the same since. He had broken her heart and she felt as though
she could never love again until she met Michael.
"Do you remember
when we first met?"
Michael tapped his
fingers on his chin for a few seconds and looked up from where he was sitting
at the dining table, "Oh, I remember that day. Man, you were pissed with me!"
"Well, besides
that part where you offended me by saying I had an old lady's name,"
Barbara said as she swatted him with her
left hand, "Do you remember anything else?
I remember you wore a blue dress shirt with stripes and you had a black
backpack on. You wore glasses that day,
those old big black round ones...you looked so cute then."
Michael's face cringed
up, "I hated those glasses! They were so big and bulky. I can't believe I
used to leave the house with those on.
And you found them attractive? Hah! I'm surprise you remember what I
even wore then since you didn't seem to like me at all."
"Oh,"
Barbara responded, "Don't get me wrong, you annoyed the heck out of
me. I noticed you coming from afar
though, before you opened that mouth of yours!"
Michael laughed as he
moved his eyebrows up and down, in a twitching motion, "So was it
love at first sight?"
Barbara never admitted it to him, but it was. There was something that drew her to Michael the
moment she saw him. Something she could
never explain. Glancing once again at
the manila envelope, Barbara took a deep breath and moved it away from her laptop. Might as well look this up on the computer and get it over
with, she thought. The local post office
in her area had closed due to budget cuts and she needed to find the next
closest one to her. If Barbara was going
to send this envelope, then she might as well have it sent there as fast as
possible...before she changed her mind.
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