The Day I Kissed An Older Man by Cher the Cherished

Corinne recognized that voice. It was the same woman who picked up Jeremy’s phone when Francine called him last time.

She felt her heart inexplicably aching.

She did not ask him who the woman was as she trusted he would explain everything to her without needing to prompt him. To her surprise, he did no such thing.

Instead, he quickly said, “Hey, I gotta go now. Be a good girl and go to bed early, okay?”

Corinne did not even have a chance to ask what was happening when Jeremy hung up on her. She listened as the disconnected tone floated into her ear.

‘Who is that woman? Why didn’t he explain himself?’ she asked herself.

She threw her phone aside and climbed into her bed. Feeling sad and insecure, she hugged her pillow tightly and curled herself into a ball.

way when she was a child. After

at that moment, the sense of insecurity from childhood seemed to have rushed back to erode her self-esteem again.

shining brightly in the sky. The warm sunlight shone through the curtains, causing

thing she saw was not the room’s furnishing but a

she was still dreaming. She touched the chest in front of her, and to her shock, it

she had spent the night in the Riveras’ summer

Various possibilities flashed through Corinne’s mind before Jason’s devilishly handsome face settled in

into my room last night!’ thought Corinne with shock. She quickly pushed

she found

is

angrily at the

“Ahhh!”