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Melting

They practically melted into each other that night

By F. Leonora SolomonPublished 3 years ago 3 min read
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Hector turned back to the bar, looking away from Jillian and Adam. He honestly never imagined her with a man like that, and when he said that to her, he meant it, although they laughed about it.

He never did imagine her with someone like Adam. When he was with her and they lived together, she did not want him to have a beard. Even when he had 5 o’clock shadow, she wanted him to shave. Now Hector watched her stroke the beard of a man that he did not think she would ever be with and who he did not think was good enough for her.

There was nothing wrong with Adam. He spent the day at the bar working. He was an online presence, and was either making videos or writing, which actually made him a decent amount of money. Plus, he promoted the bar, and he was nice to him. People actually came to the bar hoping to see Adam infamous from his vlogs. Including groupies. He threw enough bones at them that they definitely left even more devoted to him than when they arrived.

One girl sat at the bar with Hector, and looking over at Adam, she said to him,

“This is the hottest bar on the planet between Adam and you.”

Hector smiled. He knew that there were women who liked his look. Jillian used to be one of them.

They had worked together for a long time--work husband and wife. Even outside of the office, they were together all of the time. After happy hours that ran too long, she would go to his apartment because his place was closer to the office than hers. One morning he woke up and saw her on the couch, and he was dumbstruck. She looked so beautiful, nothing about her looked so amazing--she was asleep.

But he was in love.

He asked her back to his place after work, and told her that he wanted to be alone with her and get closer to her.

Jillian had liked him, but she had never told him that she felt that way. They practically melted into each other that night. When he woke up the following morning with her in his arms, she looked even more beautiful than she had on his couch. No makeup, bad breath, but soft, and it really seemed she melted into him. Getting up from her gave him separation anxiety.

Now he worked with her, saw her every day, and it was completely different. But at moments like this seeing her with Adam, he remembered when she was his.

Jillian walked over to the counter, and took a dish of olives and salami and walked back over to the booth with Adam, who was typing. He barely looked up at her, but she still fed him with her fingers.

When they were together, she did not feed him with her fingers. She was nurturing to him, but she never fed him like she fed Adam.

“How are you doing?” she asked, walking over to him again licking her fingers.

Hector turned around to look at her as she helped him light candles.

She looked so happy and in love like she had looked at him once.

When they were in love.

They had gotten together that first day, worked together, and she had encouraged him to this next endeavor. To own Hectic together. She had liked naming it after him. She really believed that it was his dream and she was just trying to support him.

Still, even though they were not in love anymore.

Well, she was not in love anymore...

This is part of a series. You can read the first story here.

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F. Leonora Solomon

writer/ex-poet. more from me here https://medium.com/@fdotleonora and here https://fdotleonora.substack.com. https://twitter.com/fdotleonora

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