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started squirming in her chair. "Gurrl, how long y’all been kickin’ it with each other again?" Persha closed her eyes. "Nuh-uh, don’t even try to get all emotional on us now. You might as well spill it," Kori insisted. "The cat is out, bay-bee, so start dishing, girlfriend!"
    "Talking about what? He’s a married man!" Cricket snapped. "What would your mother say? You know better, Persha."
    Persha slowly looked up and released her next words with a heavy breath. "You didn’t even have to go there, Cricket."
    Paula, Persha’s Bible-quoting holier than thou mother was the very last person she wanted to think about. She didn’t want to think about what Paula would really say.
    "Besides, you just don’t understand," Persha softly insisted.
    "Don’t understand? Huh, let me guess; Clarke is just some downtrodden husband, stuck in a lousy marriage and life would be so much better if only she’d agree to a divorce. Then he’d be all yours, right?" Cricket said sarcastically.
    "Awwh, Cricket, you always hating." Kori said. "So he’s married. If he says he ain’t happy that’s not Persha’s fault. Girlfriend shouldn’t be blamed because his wife didn’t learn how to keep her man at home. And Persha’s mama ain’t got nothing to do with this!"
    Persha didn’t want to talk about it anymore, but she knew Kori was just getting started. She knew this would happen once her secret got out, that’s why she wanted to avoided telling them for as long as possible. She and Clarke had been seeing each other on the down low ever since that chance encounter.
    "I’m not some little dumb mistress who’s being told to give it more time," Persha said in her defense. "Clarke and I go way back and I know him better than any woman ever could. I know he’s not happy with her, and I know how to make him happy. Besides, like he said, we were so good together."
    "Were, Persha? Were, as in past tense? I mean where’s this going? What’s gonna happen with you two?" Cricket said.
    "Well, if you really must know, he really is going to leave Kelsa, and eventually we’re gonna get a place together and go from there," Persha said with authority.
    "Work it, gurl!" Kori said as she snapped her fingers a few times and reached over to give Persha a high five.
    Cricket cocked her head to the side and looked at Persha through narrowed eyes. "Didn’t you learn anything from what you went through with him before? Why put yourself through something like that again?" she reasoned.
    "It’s gonna be different this time around. I have a strong feeling. Since we’ve had this time apart I think we’ll actually be better for each other now. Sometimes it takes someone else for two people to realize how much they really mean to each other," Persha insisted. She had already decided she was going to keep seeing Clarke, and nothing would change that.
    "And, gurl, he has always looked so damn delicious!" Kori said, licking her lips for effect. "You bet’ not let him get away again." She warned.
    But Cricket took a deep breath and with a pained expression on her face said, "I don’t want to see him hurt you again. Know when something’s no good for you and know when to walk away and stay away." She shook her head and added, "Persha, how could you possibly forgive and forget? Don’t you remember? Loving that dog nearly destroyed you."
    Persha took in her friend’s words. Back then, it was safe to say that Clarke was a dog who had trampled on her like a frightened little kitty. But now she was grown, and even more so at the age of 29 ready to prove for sure that, every cat has nine lives.
     
    ~ Clarke
    Turning over for the third time, Clarke struggled to shield his eyes against the sun's penetrating rays. He had stopped hitting the snooze button a good 20 minutes ago and knew he'd be late, but his job came with some perks.
    On Fridays he had the option of not going to the office at all if he really didn't want to, but he'd already decided to go in for a