She lived about twenty minutes from the club but she hadn’t wanted to risk trying to call one of her friends to let her take their car or take her home. They would have tried to convince her to stay, or, even worse, sent Pietr out to give her a ride. Her friends, God love them, meant well but they didn’t understand the word no very well. They felt like she cloistered herself behind the walls of her job too much. Maybe they were right, but she just couldn’t relax. It was like she was waiting for something, someone, who was just around the bend. She could feel him on the edge of the horizon. She didn’t know how to explain it but this last year had been a study of self-love and realization. She’d grown up and now she knew what she wanted. She wanted passion, lust, love, need, companionship, and friendship. It was easy enough to find passion, lust, and even companionship. But it was need, true need, and love she was striking out on. She wanted the whole thing. She needed the whole thing.
