Wouldn't you know it.
My last cousin just got a ring for Christmas. She is twenty one years old, and her fiance is an ass.
My ring finger may be bare, but at least I'm not engaged to an ass. Or so I tell myself to make the sideways glances sting a little bit less.
It's actually quite annoying that this is still such a huge issue for my family. It is the twenty first century! I am an independent woman perfectly capable of supporting myself! Of course, this argument would be more convincing were I not underemployed and living in the smallest, dingiest apartment Dreamwood Terrace has to offer. Oh well. It's the only argument I have left to make my mother shut up for all of two seconds, so I suppose it will have to do.
I begged out of the family festivities early Christmas afternoon to avoid the pointed comments about my biological clock ticking. I swear, it's like some of the incredibly well-brought up members of the Baker family have absolutely no filters. I should just start a relationship with a woman and adopt babies from foreign countries so they'll just disown me and get it over with.
I'm sorry, I shouldn't have said that. It seems that I have no filter as well.
Anyway, I drove back home at around 1:30 with a box full of gifts I had no use for. I trudged into my apartment, locked the door, and did not emerge until today. This probably isn't healthy.
I finally went out today because I completely ran out of food. Well, there was a piece of my aunt's casserole in the fridge, but let's be honest, I'm never going to be that hungry.
I walked back to Dreamwood Terrace with my bags from K. Roger's, pushing through the thick fog that seems to have been here since I arrived. I was so focused on the ground that I ran right into someone as they left the apartment building. My groceries crashed to the ground, eggs smashing, milk spilling, as I uttered a string of expletives that were entirely inappropriate for a lady. The person I had run into just chuckled. I looked up to see a guy I had never seen before, shaking his head.
"What?" I demanded, not un-huffily.
"Nothing", he replied. "I've just never heard those words used in such a combination before."
His name is Cole Harrison, and he turned out to be quite nice, actually. Apart from his snide comments about my language, that is. He helped me pick up the few groceries that had escaped destruction and carried them to my apartment with me. I was a bit distracted from the story he was telling me about moving here from Ireland by the impressive collection of red and purple bruises blooming across his face. I didn't want to ask and seem rude, however; he seemed like a very private person.
I like Cole Harrison. He is way nicer to me than any of my sub par family members.
I hope no one slips on the cracked egg slime outside our apartment building.
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