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L.M. Preston was born in Washington, DC. She loved to create poetry and short-stories as a young girl. A Techie and Educator for over sixteen years, she started writing science fiction under the encouragement of her husband who was a Sci-Fi buff and her four kids. She has an obsessive desire to write and create stories of young people who overcome unbelievable odds. She loves to write while on the porch watching her kids play or when she is traveling, which is another passion that encouraged her writing. In addition to being an author, she's also a Moderator for Yalitchat.ning.org, 2012 Vice President of Mid Atlantic Book Association and 2012 co-chair for the Maryland Writer's Conference.
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Jewel
Jewel pictured Matt, muscular frame, thick shoulders, all
the makings of a star quarterback, topped with curly red hair. Crap, he was
gorgeous. What was she thinking, maybe she shouldn’t end it? “Uh…,”
“You’re
scaring me. Talk to me, you know I love you like crazy. When you don’t answer
my calls I’m thinking you don’t love me anymore,” Matt sounded almost whiny and
she hated when they did that. Whined, cried, and made her feel like a
she-witch.
“Well
I’ve been busy. You know with the girls and we got here today. And since you …
know I’ll be gone all summer maybe we should um take a break?” Jewel cleared
her throat, feeling like scum. She should really be a pro at this, but she
hated it, especially doing it where she had to hear or see her next victim. And
she didn’t want to hurt them, she knew they’d be better off with someone who
could really fall in love with them. Not someone like her, someone broken. Some
of the guys she’d broken up with would cry, other’s had tried to physically
hurt her. She’d learned her lesson and tried to break up in as distant a way as
possible. But ending this with Matt now on the phone couldn’t be helped.
“No. I
don’t want a vacation from you. I love you. I was thinking about driving up
there today. Me and the guys could rent a place nearby. My dad said he’d foot
the bill, and since him and my mother split he’ll do anything for me. He even
brought me a new convertible, your sexy gold hair would feel good slapping
against my face while I drive.” He cleared his throat, “And you’ll be able to
ditch your cousin and stay with me – alone.”
Jewel
slapped her forehead. Why couldn’t Matt take a hint. “But I, no I don’t think
that’s a good idea. My mom barely let me come with Megs and Amy, because she’s
so protective and if she knew I was meeting my boyfriend here she’d think
you…and I were you know…,” she cleared her throat. Not only that, but being
alone with Matt made her feel extremely uncomfortable. The last time they were
alone at her house when he popped over unannounced, he’d almost ripped off her
shirt fighting her while they kissed in her living room. He’d tried to force
her blouse up, and she fighting him to put it down. If Megs hadn’t come over
earlier than planned, Jewel didn’t know what would’ve happened. It was then
Jewel decided to break it off with Matt.
“Say
it? C’mon tell me you love me back and I’ll wait to come up. I kinda feel like,
Jewel, I really miss you. And you never tell me you love me back. Yeah, you
kiss me, tell me how great a person I am, and things other people don’t even
notice about me, but you never seem to … give me part of yourself.” Matt
cleared his voice, like he was about to continue.
“It’s
because…well, I don’t … I’m not in love with you the way you want me to be. And
I’m sorry Matt, I really am, but we need to break up. I can’t do this to you
anymore,” Jewel felt like a lowlife. Again and again, she couldn’t give up hope
that she’d find someone, somebody out there that her heart connected too. She’d
thought it was Matt, felt a little flutter in her tummy when they’d first met,
but it died the next day, and by then he’d pressured her to be his girlfriend.
And after that, he like all her other ex-boyfriends started to turn scary.
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