by Penelope Moore

Created on: November 04, 2008

Somehow, without her awareness, almost as if she were on auto-pilot, she was parked in front of the cottage she rented. She never had to look at a map, and she never even felt troubled by finding the right number of her designation. She sat in her now silent car, and stared nervously at the small, yet accommodating little cabin. She looked around her, and everything was beautiful in the dusk light. Fireflies were flying around creating a symphony of light welcoming her back home to where she felt she truly belonged. She closed her eyes and listened to the crickets and leaves rustling in the wind. The air was sweetened by the most pungent pine scent.

Her eyes suddenly darted open when a huge bang on the hood of her car startled her. Her gasp was quickly followed by her instinct to yell at her long time friend, Clarissa Maverick welcoming her back so ecstatically and hitting Varille's expensive machine.

"Hey! This thing wasn't cheap woman!" yelled Varille with a nervous smile, jumping out of the car slamming into the friendly hug offered to her.

"How did you get that? What have you been doing the past five years? You never told me much of anything! You just kept asking me how I was, this and that. What the heck? Last time we hung out you were driving an old beaten Cadillac, now this?" Clarissa scolded lightly.

"Yeah, I had another baby, became single again, and then got lucky with a few of my published novels. Nothing to get all crazy about." Varille always took less credit then she deserved.

"What's with you and secrets? You told me you were having another baby and then you fell off the planet again. Weren't you with some guy named Jordan or something?" Clarissa tried to piece things together.

Varille's guilt glistened naively in her eyes as she looked at the moon rising up in the horizon, "I blame both myself and my bad luck. I have been aiming for the wrong type of guy I guess, not to mention how stubborn I am. I never mean to be, but I get burned and I guess I deserve it."

"How do I know you aren't full of it?" Clarissa said bluntly, "I know guys have always treated you less than you were worth; tell me that didn't happen again?"

"He just wasn't ready for commitment and I was expecting someone younger than me to be responsible for a baby we weren't trying on purpose to have. It was impossible. He ended up moving back in with his mother and until I had received money for my publications, I also ended up back with my own mother along with my two children."

"Yeah? How's

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