“Have you called her?” Suki asked suddenly.
“I don’t stop calling her.”
“Not Juni. The woman you threw your marriage away for. Have you talked to her since this all came out?”
“No. Not even once. I blocked her. When I found out Juni had the miscarriage while I was fucking around, I knew I’d never see this other woman again.”
Suki looked at Juni with a sad expression and Juniper gave an angry shake of her head.
“I have to go, Kyst. I’ll leave you with this and maybe it will help, maybe it won’t. Juniper doesn’t need you right now.. with the miscarriage and your cheating, she is thriving. She looks beautiful. She is healing. She’s breathing. She’s doing well. It won’t be long until there is someone who sees her for the incredible woman she is. A man who values her more than whether or not she can fuck every day will pick up the pieces you discarded. You might not be able to live without her, but she will live without you. I’ll take good care of her. I’ll help her find someone who will do what you couldn’t do, Kyst and that is to be loyal to her. You don’t need to worry about her being alone. She won’t be for long. What you need to worry about is how you’re going to survive knowing you threw away the most incredible person in the world for nothing.”
“No.” Kyst’s sob rang through the phone and Suki’s eyebrows jacked up. “Please no. I don’t want to lose her forever. I can’t imagine her with someone else.”
Suki read a note Juni typed on her phone and grinned, “Maeve is telling her to get fucked and soon because what is good for the goose is good for the gander. She even told her which hook-up app to use.” Suki crunched her nose up at the second part while Juniper tried not to laugh aloud. She mouthed at Juniper “really?”
Juni nodded excitedly.
“She can’t,” Kyst said. “I’m her only.”
“But she isn’t your only anymore Kyst and you didn’t care ho it when it was you. Why should you get to be her only any I’m with Maeve. I’ll definitely be encouraging her to broaden h experiences.”
“Don’t Suki. Please.”
“Bye Kyst.” She hung up and looked at Juniper. “Your mom is on dating apps.”
“Nope. Tinder. She’s on Tinder. Hook-ups only. She said she doesn’t need a man to make her meals or go to the movies with her. She has friends for that shit but dick she gets online. I’m telling you, do not get stuck next to her when she’s on a massage table or in a hair stylists chair because she overshares.”
“How did we not know this?”
“She thought since we preached about only being with one person in high school and made fun of the sluts we would judge her.”
“She does know we only judged them because my mother kept a revolving door of lovers my father still turns a blind eye to, right?” Suki snorted.
“Enough of my craziness. Why are you home a full three weeks early?”
“His ex.”
“What about her?”
“She lives right next door to him. They share a wall between their place. She has a boyfriend and whatever and she was really nice, but too nice. Like the first day I got there, I was sitting in the back garden and she popped her head over the fence and said how amazing it was I was there and how he’d been talking about me for months.”
“Okay.”
“Super friendly and nice and I thought cool, maybe it’s not so bad. Then every time we were out in the garden, she was there. If we were going for a walk, somehow she was just heading out the door too. One night at around ten, we were getting hot and heavy, and she knocked on the door to ask if he had any vodka. She started crying over the boyfriend not coming home and next thing I know, I’m slipping my bra back on and going to bed alone while she cried on his shoulder in the living room.”
“Shit.”
“The worst was when we were finally having sex in his bed, and she knocked on the wall three times. She said the next morning it was a joke but like what the fuck? He wouldn’t tell her off or anything. He went to work in the morning, and I booked my flight. It took me so long to open up to the possibility of physical connection and she ruined it, and he let her.”
“Did you have sex with him?”
“Yes and I hate myself for it because I know during the time he was with me, he was thinking of her because she knocked on the wall.”
“That’s messed up.”
“Yeah but not as messed up as Kyst screwing someone in your home.” Suki sighed. She looked to where the kitten crawled back up on Juniper’s leg. “Maybe we should just get cats and be spinsters cat ladies.”
Juniper stroked the kitten’s fur and sighed, “but then it feels like Kyst is winning. I can’t stop thinking of him crying over the possibility of me having sex with someone else.”
“What are you going to do?”
“I think,” she cleared her throat, “I want to have sex with someone else. It’s only fair.”
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“Hey sunshine,” Beni’s voice called out as she was exiting the car in the underground parking garage. He was just leaving his car. “Where are you coming from?”
She was surprised to see him there at this time of day.
“A cat café. I spent some time cuddling cats,” she looked down at her fur covered shirt. “My friend Suki is back from the UK, and we drank coffee, played with kittens and then I came home. She’s going to come over later for dinner. She wants me to go with her to a bar.”
“A bar?” he led the way to the elevator. “Are you feeling going to a bar or a club?”
“Yes. She called Kyst to tell him off in front of me. He didn’t know I was there. She told him she was encouraging me to broaden my horizons since his is the only penis I know.”
Beni’s eyebrows shot up, “um.” He cleared his throat at her blunt talk and looked away, “how do you feel about such a possibility?”
Beni was always asking her how she felt, and she liked it. He was the one who was emotional and taking care of her feelings. She smiled at him with the memory of her mother’s words in her head, and how she told Suki he lived right next to her.
While she’d argued she found all three of them incredibly attractive and all for different reasons, Suki’s reasoning was in her head at the moment. Suki suggested since he lived next door he was likely the best candidate for her first foray into fresh dick. Juniper realized standing here with him, she was nervously hoping he would read between the lines when she explained her thoughts. He was good at nuance. She was sure of it. Juniper batted her lashes at him.
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