I got a job.
I didn’t need one. I was in nursing school, and that takes a lot of time and energy.
I had a boyfriend that was absent half the time that paid for anything I needed or wanted…
And he was jealous. Annoying jealous. Anything I did when he wasn’t home would set him off.
I was new to the city and didn’t have a lot of friends, but I met a girl in one of my classes and she invited me to a concert.
She was someone I could instantly see being friends with. We dressed the same, her hair was cool, she was tall, and an absolute smoke-show. Her name was Charlie.
Brown hair tied up in a messy bun, a bit of makeup but nothing over the top, cool style… Just like mine.
That didn’t go over well with my boyfriend… me wanting to go to a concert.
My boyfriend. Let’s call him Terry.
He was halfway through a two-week stretch and it was still a hard ‘NO’.