a
familiar crack of my manager's door behind me. There was a brief pause to the
for a quick meeting," her comm
't think of a single reason why I'd be 'called into the principal's office' since I'd done nothing but hit
eeked my head through the door to m
obably because I looked like a nervous wrec
e a glass of water and I took a small sip, hoping it would have a cal
" Straight to the point. Just like that. A sma
out my water. "You're aski
een excellent, Kathy. There's a position that just opened up in our
my throat, mind reeling from t
a big decision, but you'll be working directly with the CEO which is great
?" I gripped the edge of
s talking about. Then there was the question about the city itself. I chewed on my lip as I considered her words. New York sounded so exc
n me. I'd be leaving behind the scars of a messy break-up with my cheating ex and the wound fro
setting was exac
surge of unexplainable con
ed pleasantly surprised by how
ither. When I was dating my ex-boyfriend, he would al
y at home. I'm here and that's
istened. Now that he was gone, I knew I had t
rs of my lips curved upwards into
a step in the right direction. It had to be. Before I knew
uch," my mother hugged me tig
you, too," I replie
erstand the grief of losing a parent back then, but even so, my mother made sure that I never felt his absence. She tried her be
I promised, before giving h
chapter in my life. One I wa