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Something
by
Shannon Peel
Genre:
Chick Lit, Contemporary Fiction
Five
women navigate life while juggling careers, children, family, and the
men in their lives.
Charlie
is bored with the family tradition of Sunday Dinner so she brings a
friend her family won't approve of to spice things up a bit. Will
this friend go too far and cause too much damage?
Rose
only wants to do what is right and keep her family safe. How can she
do that when the world is so dangerous and her teenagers so willful.
Will helping a friend invite trouble into her perfect world?
Lindsay
loves to have fun and enjoys the company of men. She is a modern
playgirl who will stop at nothing to get a man's attention. Will she
find what she's looking for or something unexpected?
Sophie
wants to keep the peace and keep everyone happy, especially her
ex-husband, so her children will live with her full time. Will she
lose the children if she can't afford to take care of them?
Justine
wants to escape her perfect life, she just doesn't realize it. Will
she find the passion that is missing or will she continue to hide
behind her computer screen?
· Charlie
Davie is at his dad’s place.
I enjoy the mornings on my own. I miss him
when he’s not here. I do. It’s just that mornings are so much easier when he
isn’t here, I can’t feel bad about that, can I? It’s quieter with less rushing
around. I get to sit and enjoy my cup of coffee while scanning the news
headlines on my tablet, a treat I have to forgo when he’s here.
The evenings are lonely when he’s not here.
When I come home to an empty apartment. That’s when I miss his noise, his
running around annoying the hell out of me. To combat the loneliness I work
late, hang out with friends, and if I am lucky, like tonight, I go on a date.
Tonight I’m meeting Sean for drinks.
I met him online a couple days ago. He is
average looking and can’t spell worth a damn. Who needs an educated man though?
I’d like to be with an intelligent man, however, smart, interesting, quality
men with good jobs and their shit together, like pretty, fit, smaller women. I
get the leftovers, the rude boys and the horny idiots.
Sean is a construction worker with a
construction worker’s body, not overweight and not body builder cut. He looks
strong with a soft layer of fat covering the muscle mass. His profile isn’t my
ideal choice in a man, but beggars can’t be choosers. It’s stay home alone
again, or meet the guys who want to meet me, even if they aren’t what I want.
At least Sean isn’t a complete pig and asked
me a few questions about my experiences online dating and what kind of man I
want to find, before he started in on the sexting crap.
Sean: What do you like?
Me: I like to read and hang out with friends.
Sean: I mean in bed.
Me: Oh. Shouldn’t we at least meet before talking about sex?
Sean: Sorry I can’t help it. Your pics give me notty thoghts.
Me: OK.
Sean: How big are your tits?
Fuck. I hate this question and I get it a lot.
It’s not like I can hide the fact I have bloody watermelons on my chest. These
guys are always so crude, I don’t ask them the size of their package. If I
thought it would bother them I would, but guys seem to like getting that question
and are proud of the answer. I’ll have some fun with this shit and make the
idiot work for the answer. Guys like games, right?
Me: Guess
Sean: idk
Me: Guess or nothing.
Sean: DD
Me: No bigger
Sean: DDD
Me: No bigger
Sean: No shit. Bigger than ddd. Fuck.
Me: I hate them
Sean: Why? I love em
Me: Because men can’t see past them and only want to date them.
Sean: Come on babe. That’s not true.
Me: Really. Seems to be all you care about.
Sean: No. I respect you. I want more than just sex.
Me: Riiiiiight.
Sean: No really. How ‘bout you come over and I’ll show you.
Me: I’m not coming over to your place. I don’t know you.
Sean: Come on. You can trust me. I’m a good guy.
Me: I’m sure Charles Manson says the same thing.
Sean: Ouch that was uncalled for. Just come over and I’ll show you how good
I am.
Me: No. Meet me for a coffee or a drink.
Sean: I don’t do coffee meets.
Me: I don’t do meets at stranger’s houses. Either meet me in public or not
at all.
Sean: OK babe. Tomorrow night. Drinks at 8.
Me: Great where.
That probably means we’ll go back to his place
in his dictionary of dating. How long has it been since I got fucked? Too long.
Damn. I really should get myself an FWB to scratch the itch until I meet the
guy who deserves more. Maybe this guy will be that, a good roll in the hay kind
of guy. Lindsay swears by them and I haven’t had any luck in five years finding
anything real. Might as well try fake. Men want to pretend they have a
girlfriend without all the responsibility of love and commitment.
I hate fake. I hate giving guys a sex only
arrangement. I don’t get more than a quick, wham-bam-thank-you-mam, out of it.
The worst guys are the ones who make me feel like a free prostitute. Those are
the ones who want to meet only in private, fuck you, and tell you to go home.
These are the guys I regret getting naked with. The ones that have me hating
myself so much the next day I swear off men and delete my dating profile.
I hate those guys.
Sean is probably one of those guys.
Still, it’s better than bring home alone.
Shannon
Peel grew up in Enderby, BC where her family's root run deep. Growing
up where television was either non existent or very limited she
relied on books & imagination to escape into the world
beyond.
She
went to UBC to study and earn a general studies BA with a
concentration in Political Science and Economics. Macro analysis of
world events, social justice and human motivations became a passion
of hers. This passion is a driving force in all her stories, which
have political, economic, and social justice undercurrents.
After
a career in the financial field she decided to stay home and raise
her two children until school age. In 2007 she return to the
workforce as a sales / marketing / advertising professional. She
currently resides in BC's Lower Mainland with her two teenage
children.
Shannon
Peel is a creative, intelligent professional with a 20 year proven
track record in sales, marketing, customer relations, project
management, presentations, and communication.
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