Sorry about the long wait and the short chapter... I'll try to keep them coming!
Michelle left Ellie's room and entered the kitchen. She looked around, debating whether or not she wanted to start the dishwasher. Tony did load it for me. All I have to do is hit that little white button. But it's all the way over there... After much deliberation, shuffled over to the dishwasher, hit the button, and shuffled off to her bathroom. Why does my hair always look terrible just after I see Tony? she thought when she saw herself in her mirror. Maybe because he has a tendency to... mess it up a little. Michelle smiled as she turned on her shower. I think I just may be falling in love with Tony Almeida. He's not a bit like any other guy I've ever dated. He makes me feel beautiful and happy and loved and... well, every other guy was out the door the second he heard about Ellie. But Tony is so... Michelle couldn't think of a word.
Michelle remembered her first real boyfriend- Jeff. She was a sophomore in college, he was about to graduate. He was good-looking, and he was looking at all sorts of other girls too. Michelle had cried for three days straight when she had caught him with her roommate.
Her last year of college, there was Brett. He was rich, he was tall, dark, handsome, and... gay. When Michelle had called her sister to cry about Brett, Kerry had told her that at some point in the future, they'd both laugh at how Michelle had turned a guy gay. Well, Michelle still wasn't really laughing yet.
Michelle's mind drifted from boyfriend to boyfriend and breakup to breakup- she hadn't had many, and some were uglier than others, but she'd never forget those first few hours after being dumped- the crying, the M&Ms, the missing her mom. Through all of her previous relationships, Michelle realized that there was one common thread- none of them had ever been anything like Tony.