Alisha leaned across the desk, lowering her voice. “I was thinking, Lora… maybe you should try counseling.”
Lora shot her a sharp look. “No freaking way. And what exactly should I tell the therapist? That I’m a virgin, still unmarried, and can’t even land a date in the twenty-first century? Come on, are you kidding me?”
Alisha sighed, but her eyes softened with concern. “I’m not kidding. I’m serious. As your co-worker and college friend, I just want you to try it—for yourself.”
Lora crossed her arms. “I don’t think any therapist could fix this mess.”
“Fine,” Alisha pressed on, “then what about dating apps?”
Lora hesitated, then exhaled. “Okay… we’ll give it a try.”
Alisha squealed with delight and wrapped her arms around her. “Yesss!” She quickly opened her phone, typing into the group chat. “Guys, big news—Lora finally agreed to start dating!”
The group exploded with teasing replies: “Let’s see who will finally take our cute Lora’s virginity!”
But for Lora, her virginity wasn’t just some joke. It was a deeply guarded part of her life, shaped by a painful past.
Her father had lived his entire life hiding that he was gay, cheating on her mother countless times. Her mother only discovered the truth two days before her father’s tragic death in a car accident. The revelation left scars on the family that never fully healed.
Lora had two sisters and a brother. Her older sister, Jasmine, was reckless in her youth. She started dating a boy from her school neighborhood, got pregnant with twin boys, and still didn’t learn her lesson. She went on to have two more children—until her boyfriend betrayed her and fathered another child with someone else in town.
Burdened with four kids and no proper education, Jasmine was forced into juggling private double shifts to make ends meet. Their mother stepped in, offering childcare and financial support to keep Jasmine’s children fed and schooled. Lora never complained, even when Jasmine often left her kids at Lora’s small apartment, draining both her and her mother’s energy.
Despite the struggle, the family pulled together. Their brother also chipped in financially. During one particularly tense family gathering, a half-serious, half-cruel suggestion was thrown at Lora: that she should have her tubes tied so she’d never fall into the same cycle of mistakes.
But unlike Jasmine, Lora wasn’t careless. She carried her pain differently. While Jasmine stumbled through life, eventually returning to college to finish her studies, Lora built walls around herself—walls that even love, and perhaps counseling, would struggle to break down.
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