Sorry Readers, this should have been attached to the last chapter, but it wasn't.
Chapter 18
Separate but Equal
When I saw her that December, she looked so thin, but pretty. She had on the red scarf she was wearing when I last saw her when she disappeared out of my life. I think she had planned to eat at the bistro but after seeing me she grabbed the food, had it wrapped, and took it with her. I ran after her, yelling her name for almost a block, but that red scarf quickly disappeared again. I was numb. I didn't think I would run into her in such a large city considering it was my first time back in Baltimore. I had come down to see Doug and go to a concert.
Natalie and I had been dating two months. I didn't think it was serious, but I found out later that she did. She was an underwriter for a large commercial insurer and she was dropped dead beautiful, a real head turner. We had fun in bed but she wasn't Kenna. When I kissed Kenna I could smell her, inhale her. She always had that squeaky clean soap smell that made me ache all over with desire for her. After the bistro incident, I felt like I was leaving her all over again. It was hard not to show how much seeing her had affected me. I continued to joke and banter back and forth with Natalie and Doug, but Doug gave me a sad smile that told me he knew. I didn't see Kenna for years.