Chapter 71

I was sitting in that same diner where my story with Edward took a new direction.

I was accompanied by Ashley, who excitedly told me about her new boyfriend and how much her position in the office was being useful for her plans for the future. She told me she was saving money for a possible wedding, but that she didn't want to put the oxen in front of the cart and plan everything alone to be disappointed in the end. She said that her new boyfriend had many plans to start a family, but that he was hoping to finish his college to really commit to that.

We had ordered pancakes, and I was eating while letting Ashley talk through her elbows about her goals and achievements. The coffee in front of her had already been served cold, but the more she spoke, the colder it got. She was also not noticing that the caramel syrup over her folded pancake was sliding down one of the edges of her plate, and that the more she spoke, the more she would lose the quality of her food. May