Free Pretty Fly for a White Guy: The Complete Series Collection by Lena Skye

for your whole life.
     
    I was happy that my dating Joshua didn’t ruin their friendship; if it did I would have bowed out all together. Nothing is worth the loss of a lifelong friend. But they have been handling everything in a pretty mature way. I seem to be the only one that feels weird about the situation.
    I pulled up to the Four Seasons Hotel and handed my keys over to the valet attendant. We were dining at Park 75 and it brought back so many memories. This was not only one of our favorite hotels but we loved the restaurant. Their ingredients were so fresh and they were grown right on their own terrace. I sighed as I walked towards the restaurant and hoped that he wouldn’t crush me with whatever it was that he wanted to talk about.
     
    I walked into the restaurant and the hostess greeted me with a warm smile, “Ms. Berry?” she asked.
     
    “ Yes,” I responded.
     
    “Great, Mr. Matthews is expecting you. He’s already seated, can you follow me please?”
     
    “Absolutely,” I said as I followed behind her towards our table.
    It was in fact our table; we always sat in the same spot when we came here. Kenneth and I are big fans of tradition and creatures of habit when it came to dating and going out. We always wanted the same table at each restaurant that we’d gone to. It made it feel so much more special.
    He stood from his seat when he saw me approaching the table. He gave me a modest hug and pulled out my chair for me. He smelled really good and I inhaled the fresh scent of his aftershave.
     
    “Well we haven’t been here in while,” I said breathlessly.
     
    The nostalgia of the situation was beginning to overtake me. I looked over the table at him and he gave a slight smile. He almost looked sad, and my heart dropped. Kenneth rarely looked downtrodden; he was the king of cool.
     
    “You’re right, it has been a while. Over a year since we’ve been here together,” he said.
     
    I raised my eyebrow at the ‘together’ part of his sentence. I wondered if he had brought any other women here besides me. We were no longer together but that thought didn’t make me happy at all. There were so many places in Atlanta that I wouldn’t go to because of the memories that Kenneth and I created there. I wouldn’t want to share them with anyone else, it sounds naive but that’s just how I feel.
     
    “Don’t look at me like that,” he laughed, “I’ve never brought any women here that I’ve been dating.”
     
    Relief flooded through me and his laugh soothed my soul. I loved his laugh and he always did a lot of it. That’s one thing about him that I’ve missed. He had the ability to make me laugh in a way that no one else could. He brought so much joy to my life.
     
    “Remember our first date here?” he asked.
     
    I laughed, “I remember it very well. You told them that we were engaged so that we would get extra special treatment. We were only on our third date. I thought you were crazy! The entire room was clapping and you gave me that bubble gum machine ring and they put it on a cupcake!”
     
    “Yeah I don’t know what was funnier, the rooms reaction or yours.”
     
    “Probably mine because I thought you were crazy. You warned me that you had something up your sleeve but I didn’t think that would be it.”
     
    “Well I asked you if you liked to have fun and you said yes. I warned you that something crazy was going to happen and to just go with it.”
     
    “You did warn me but come on. You had me wondering why the staff was being so attentive to us and why rose petals were on our table and no one else’s.”
    This got a hearty laugh from him, “That’s when I saw what a good sport you were. You even said no in front of everyone. You hurt my heart Nicole.”
     
    “ I didn’t hurt your heart. I figured that since you wanted to put on a show, we may as well make it a soap opera. I thought that we were never going to be able to show our faces in this place