Short Story

Now, after some time of living together, tensions are building in the apartment. Augustine first accuses Melanie of being wasteful, then unfaithful. Augustine recalls their two years together as being six months of passion followed by a year and a half of bickering and fighting. Melanie later comes home and explains

In addition, one can also argue about Paulina’s love-hate relationship with Gerardo, as she is clearly very emotionally attached to him, yet seems as though she treats him with a sort of disrespect or harsh manner. Paulina’s strange relationship also brings the audience to question this woman’s sense of judgment, and maybe even her past. Ironically, later she refers to him as ‘my little man’, contrasting with how he called her, and making sure that Gerardo knows that he is her husband, and she’s in charge.

Lila lay on her bed staring at the ceiling thinking over the events of the evening. The more she recalled, the more she was mortified for acting like a love sick, slobbering idiot in front of not only the most beautiful man she’d ever met, but he was her best friends cousin of all things! Lila groaned, burying her head into her pillow. She tried to console herself by thinking she would never see him again. She could avoid him by simply not going back there. It wouldn’t be too difficult to do. She would never have the guts to venture to a club like that on her own. This is exactly the reason that Rachael had taken her there. Lila was trying to convince herself he was charming to all the ladies. He worked at a night club. Of course he would

"Have I hurt you? You didn’t like it? Sorry. This is the first time I kiss a man myself." The girl said, being ashamed of her words.

Sitting in the kitchen drinking gin, Mel, brings up the topic of love and how he thinks "real love was nothing less than spiritual love" (876). This is when Mel's wife, Terri, brings up her ex Ed; Ed ‘"loved her so much he tried to kill her"’ (876). Mel tries explaining this is not love it was Ed's craziness. This is the first sign of Mel being jealous, however, as the story goes on readers will see it is more than jealousy. Even when Nick asks how they all fell onto this topic Terrie replies with ‘"Mel always has love on his mind"’ (876). After Nick hears Mel calling Ed's "behavior" towards Terri crazy instead of love, he asks Mel if he thinks ‘"love is an absolute"’ to which Mel replies ‘"The kind of

Berto gave a note to Lydia, it was meanand said some awful things about Lydia, Berto was not very nice and did not like Lydia.

She was upset. No idea at the reason, Hyesun didn’t bother to ask. That night, Hyejung didn’t say much when she came over, didn’t bother to crack any sarcastic comments, or bother Hyesun to order some food that night. The younger sat on the couch, emotionless which caused an awkward tension between the two. Hyesun does nothing but sit next to her, hoping that her presence was enough to comfort the other. “he-” She doesn’t get to finish her sentence, the other just bursts into tears. The younger remains emotionless for a while until Hyesun places a hand on her back, rubbing her to comfort the other. It was a rare thing to see Hyejung in such a state and it was the best option to say nothing. The few minutes goes by and she’s a bit calmer. “I hate girls like you. Girls who look absolutely stunning, even when they cry.” She says, trying to lighten up the

After a moment of gawking he shifted his eyes back to the sky. He was lying on the ground with his hand behind his head, almost content with the world, he couldn’t be sure, but this had to be the closes he would ever felt to really happiness, sure he was pleased and proud when he or asserted his power, but more over he was angry, not at anything in particular, just angry, Feli was laying the opposite way, his head right next to Luciano’s talking a mile a minute and giggling often, Luciano didn’t have to say much to get the other laughing. What surprised him the most were the small smiles of his own that would tug at his lips at Feliciano’s actions. These dream visits, the both concluded they were, had been happening for several months almost a year. Rolling over onto his stomach Feliciano looked down into the beautiful magenta

"Joelllll? Joey, babe? I want to talk to you about last night. Where are you?" she spoke, her voice shaking. There was still no response. Was Joel at the club? Probably with some slutty bartender. A sudden sense of jealousy overtook her brain. She called his phone over and over again, but there was no answer.

This leads into a quartet involving Marzelline, Fidelio, Rocco, and Jaquino. The plot thickens as Marzelline thinks to herself of her imagined love and future happiness with Fidelio. Fidelio thinks of the danger of Marzelline’s crush on her

Madge. His already aching body feels even worse as guilt consumes him. She had never written back after he had sent his hateful letter, and he couldn’t blame her, not when he realizes that she had been warning him against the very thing Cato had pointed out.

“Hey” Rodney said grunting while sitting next to Ricardo. Rodney was Ricardo’s best friend and secret crush. They’ve been inseparable since freshman year of high school. Ricardo didn’t respond to Rodney and just shook his head, gesturing a simple ‘Hi. Rodney looked at him and grabbed him by the chin and saw the tear streaks rushing down his face. Rodney looked dissatisfied and Ricardo just turned his head and looked down.

After Near’s call, I walked out of the kitchen and yelled, “Hey, Misa? I’m going back down. I’ll try not to be down there so late this time.” I heard her squeal Light’s name, and my eyebrows came together. There was no date planned, and he wouldn’t have gone up there by choice. What’s L doing now? I asked myself as I sighed.

Their marriage is in danger due to their different expectations. Michael reckons that it is fine to desire other women notwithstanding the fact that he is in a devoted relationship. He agrees that he "look[s] at women" (p.3) but he doesn't think "it's wrong or right." (p.3) Frances says that Michael looks at every woman "as though [he] wants them" (p.3), he replies that "in a way, that's true."(p.3) Frances wants Michael to feel the same way he felt about her when they first met. Frances feels that "when [they] pass a woman and [he] look[s] at her and [Frances] see[s] that look in [his] eye and that's the way [he] looked at [her] the first time … and it makes [her] feel terrible" (p.3) because he doesn't look at her like that anymore.

he tries to convince her to seize the day. And because of this love he felt