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doesn’t concern you,
Ryan,” I said.
    “ Whatever,” he said.
“You’re just going to tell me about it anyway.”
    I sighed and looked away from the two
men. I didn’t have any reason to be mad at Ryan, but I was. And I
was furious with Sean. Ryan walked down the hall and went into his
room to get ready for his evening out. Sean placed his hand on my
thigh.
    “ I’m sorry,” he whispered.
“You are just making this really difficult for me. You are
absolutely gorgeous and sexy, and you have no idea how much I want
to be with you, but more importantly, I love you and I want to make
sure that I’m not hurting you.”
    His words softened my anger. I turned
towards him and met his gaze. “I’ve moved on from what happened,
Sean. I forgive you, so let’s forget about it and be happy
together. I trust you and know you will never hurt me again. It was
a huge misunderstanding anyway. And I won’t let you hurt me again.
Last time I thought I couldn’t go on, but I’ll never allow myself
to feel that way again. So please, stop babying me.”
    Sean sighed. “I’ll think about it,” he
said.
    I rolled my eyes. I was done talking
about it. “What do you want for dinner?”
    Sean thought for a moment. “Chinese
food sounds good. Or even pizza.”
    “ Let’s do pizza,” I said.
“We have to find a movie to watch.”
    “ There’s probably
something on television,” he said. “That way we don’t have to go
out again.”
    “ Okay.”
    Ryan came back into the living room
and grabbed his keys. “I’m leaving,” he said as he walked to the
door. “It’s nice having Sean here so I can go out.”
    “ I never asked you to stay
and babysit me,” I snapped.
    Ryan shrugged. “I’ll see you later.”
He shut the door behind him and was gone.
    I rose from the couch and opened up
the phone book, looking for a pizza parlor close by. Sean came up
behind me and ran his fingers down my back. “Have you called
Janice?”
    “ No.” I sighed. “I’ll call
her when you leave.”
    “ Okay,” he said. “I know
she’ll appreciate it.”
    “ I know.”
    He kissed me on the cheek then stepped
away. “What kind are you going to order?” he asked.
    “ Combination.”
    “ Are you going to ask them
to drop it on the ground before they bring it over?” He
smiled.
    I picked up the phone and dialed.
“You’re lucky that I love you.”
    “ The luckiest guy in the
world.”
    The phone started to ring and they
finally answered. I placed our order and hung up. Sean pulled out
twenty dollars and left it on the table. “They can keep the
change.”
    “ I got it,” I said. “You
paid for drinks the other night.”
    “ Don’t worry about it,” he
said quickly. “You can get the next one.”
    His quick refusal made me suspicious.
I knew he had been conversing with Ryan, and I wondered if my
brother had told him about my situation. I wanted to ask him
without giving the information away just in case Ryan hadn’t told
him.
    “ I’m making good money
from my editing company,” I said. “A woman just paid me two
thousand dollars to edit her manuscript.”
    Sean nodded. “I’m going to quit my job
and start editing too, then.”
    “ You don’t need to pay for
everything, Sean. I have money.”
    “ I know,” he said. “But
you are my girlfriend and I like to treat you. Is it that big of a
deal?”
    I realized that he didn’t know. After
all, if he had, he would have said something already. He probably
would have yelled at me for not telling him about it to begin with,
and berate me for giving all my money to my brother.
“No.”
    “ Good,” he said. “This
feminism movement is annoying. A guy can’t even take out a girl
anymore.”
    I smiled. “I didn’t mean to offend
you, babe.”
    Sean wrapped me in his arms and
nuzzled my neck. “I like it when you call me that.”
    “ You do?”
    “ Definitely.”
    “ I like that it isn’t
weird that we’re a couple.”
    “ Me too,” he said. “It
makes me