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Out with the Old
“I can’t go through with it!” Jessica said, panting as if she couldn’t breathe.
“Yes, you can,” Emily replied.
Jessica and Emily were my work colleagues. We always hung out together at lunchtime and sometimes after work.
“I am going to call it off,” Jessica said, grabbing her phone out of her back pocket.
“No, you’re not,” Emily said, taking Jessica’s cell phone.
I sat down, shaking my head. It had been like this for the last two days. Jessica was getting married in three days to Steven, a younger guy she met online.
Both Jessica and Emily were in their late thirties, but they liked men in their early twenties. Self-proclaimed Cougars, so they said.
“There is so much I wanted to do, before I got married,” Jessica said as she calmed down.
“All of which you will get to do, still,” Emily said, passing her phone back to her.
“Three more days, not much time,” I teased.
“Shut it Carl,” Emily smiled at me.
Emily was already married to her young cub, a twenty-year-old named Martin.
Emily had just turned thirty-nine and was looking forward to her fortieth birthday. Unlike Jessica, who was thirty-eight, who was dreading getting older.
