RAQUEL
I hadn't meant to ignore him, still I had...I was too afraid to face him and tell him everything. Of how I'm still marrying Terrance because I'm still too ashamed to come to terms that I may just be in love with a younger man of a different race...
Who happens to be partly responsible for this occurrence in me
Who knows how to hold me and just talk to me
Mother's words fall into my brain," None of those things on whether or not he makes you feel special matter if his lifestyle involves scraps."
When he appeared at my doorstep I was close to just running into his arms, I had to refrain and remind myself, to keep it together, I don't want to further distort the supposed image Derek and I had made. It's all plastic smiles at this point as I silently watch the bodies of supposed fr
