"Kris, are you ready?" David asked as I brought Wildfire to the trial starting gate. I nodded and the doors flew open. Wildfire rushed out and before I knew it, we were done.
"Good," David commented, looking at the stopwatch. "You cut five seconds off your time. Davis diet doing you good?" I made a face at this. I'd been on their diet for what seemed like forever to find that I'd lost about ten pounds. Junior believed I was too skinny but Dani thought I finally "had the weight for my height". I could literally kick her for her 500 calorie diet.
"That good?" he questioned in response to my face. I nodded. "Look, Kris," Oh crap. He was going to try and have another one of those "we can be friends until we become lovers" talk. "I don't want things to be awkward like this at work. I'm making an effort to be friends, can't you do the same?" Wow. I was wrong. He had actually wanted to explain to me how Mr. Davis could see the tension and wanted it to stop.
"I'll make an effort," I negotiated. "But it's hard to make an effort when your boss is hitting on you and probably saying how good those jeans make your butt look."
"It's hard when you want someone and they're taken," he countered.
"We don't get everything we want in life," I said with a sarcastic tone.
"I do," he replied as though I'd said nothing at all.
"Well, I guess this is going to be a first for you," I finished, turning from him and walking toward the mansion.
"Gosh dang it!" I thought as I kicked the dirt.
"What am I going to do?" I accidentally said aloud.
"What are you going to do about what?" Junior asked.