I’m at my pool. It’s the first day it’s open, and a bunch of us are having a party. It’s a beautiful day. The music is blaring, we’re laughing, and we’re having cocktails.
My phone pings.
“I need you to go to the front desk,” says my friend.
She’s out of town.
Her ex-boyfriend has dropped off something for her. She’s told him over, and over again to leave her alone. He won’t. She’s stressed because she wonders what he’s left her this time.
“You can get it later,” say my friends.
They aren’t being insensitive.
They just think it can wait because she’s out of town.
I know it can’t.
I can read the stress in her text. I realize she’s not going to be able to relax on her vacation until she knows what it is. He’s been haunting her. He’s been showing up at our building, our parking garage, and her work.
“I’ll be right back,” I say.
I go to our concierge, and explain the situation.
I have to explain myself because we aren’t allowed to pick up packages that don’t belong to us. She tells me to have my friend contact her, and give me permission to pick up what’s been left for her.
I tell her my friend has asked that he not be allowed in the building.
She tells me to tell my friend to put it in writing in an email.
I pass along the message.
I go back to be with our friends. I come back down after enough time has passed for her to email the concierge. I had seen the package before, it’s several bottles of wine, a card, and a handwritten letter.
He’s bought her concert tickets.
It’s a concert she had expressed an interest in.
I’m like, really?
There’s so much drama in divorce dating.
She’s seeing a guy who cheated on her. He refuses to give her up. Despite being the one who did them in. I’m talking to a guy who’s been distracting me, only to discover he might be married.
And lying to me.
And that doesn’t even scratch the surface of the other girls.
There’s lots going on.
There’s so much drama in divorce dating.
I can’t decide if I want it, or out.
I’ll let you know after we finish the wine he left.
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