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The Guy Next Door - Part Three
Date: 9/23/2015, Categories: Reluctance, Author: SITTING, Rating: 38, Source: LushStories
I found it important to cling to routines. There was something safe, regular, about doing the same things I’d always done before the unplanned evening at Cooper’s flat. The thought of that one night made me blush and clench simultaneously. I told myself there was no way I could have avoided the encounter but nothing felt right. There was no way I was going back for round two. It wasn’t worth it. Cooper and I had no chance of any kind of relationship. We were opposites. And so it was destructive to fuck for no real reason, right? Yes, the sex felt good but it was empty. The wrong kind. All around me, my childhood friends and work colleagues were settling down, getting married, having kids and the ones who weren’t didn’t seem to ever want a conventional kind of life. But I did. I’d always been the kind of girl who imagined meeting Mr Perfect then buying a house in the suburbs to live in with our two-point-four kids and a goldfish thrown in for good measure. My life had a plan. I’d followed the plan. I’d put my head down at school, ignored the parties and drugs and gone to university. I had a good job. I didn’t have any credit card debt. And all of that was perfect and wonderful but now I couldn’t stop thinking about Cooper. It wasn’t as if I was in love with him. No. Definitely not. But I was genuinely worried that no other man could make me feel the way he could. And what would that mean? A life devoid of fulfilment? I knew, of course I knew, that any relationship I might have ...