His For The Night by Helen Cooper Page A

disgust, not wanting the reminder that her love live was now
non-existent. She was still in a state of shock at the fact that
Josh had dumped her and called her boring. She had thought she was
doing him a favor by dating him. She had been in so many bad
relationships with guys that sent her panties swinging that she had
felt that it was time to date a ‘safe’ guy. He had bored her and
talked about mundane subjects like golf and bird species, but she
had sucked it up because she wanted to get married and have a
family, and he had seemed like a sure bet. She was still
flabbergasted that he had dumped her because he had thought her too
boring. She shook her head at the irony of the situation. She was
the girl that danced on bar tops in college and had one-night
stands on Spring Break. The girl that dyed her brown hair red so
that she could show up at her ex-boyfriend’s bachelor party and
pretend to be a stripper. She had known he was scum, but when he
actually accepted her offer for sex and pulled his pants down, she
had run out of the room laughing. She had been glad at that moment
that he had ended the relationship. She had never known he was that
sleazy.
    After that relationship,
Holly had decided to tame her wild ways and settle for a nice guy.
And when Josh had come along, with his sweet blue eyes and light
brown hair, he hadn’t set her heart on fire, but he had seemed safe
and dependable. The sex had been lack luster, and he had been
fairly dull, but he had also wanted a family pretty soon, and she
figured he would make a good father.
    “ Well, fuck him.” Holly
shook her long brown hair and grabbed the plastic bag off of the
bed. “I’m going to wear this tonight for myself, and I’m going to
feel sexy, even if nobody gets to see it.” She looked in the mirror
and stared at her reflection. He long brown hair hung in waves
around her shoulders, and her light brown eyes were afire with
anger. All-in-all, she was pleased with what she saw. She was never
going to be a super model, but she had what it took to turn an eye
or two.
    She grinned to herself and
paused as she thought about dolling herself up for the night. “I’m
boring?” She growled angrily and grabbed her phone and dialed
Josh’s number. He sent her straight to voicemail, and she ranted
into the phone. “Josh, this is Holly, your boring ex-girlfriend. I
wanted to ask you something: if I’m boring, what are you? Did you
win the most boring man in the world prize or something? Do you
think anyone gives a shit what kind of worms a bird is looking for?
Did you really think my idea of a fun vacation would be to go gator
watching with you in the Everglades? I just wanted to let you know
that you, Josh Pratt, you are the most boring man I have ever met.”
She closed the phone quickly and laughed to herself. She was still
feeling a little down due to her boss’ email, but she knew she was
going to get over Josh pretty easily.
    “ Maybe now’s not the time
for a family.” She mumbled to herself as she flung a short, sexy
dress into her bag. “I’m going on 25. I’ve got time.” She sat back
on her bed and bit her lip. She knew that she was still young, but
it had always been her dream to have a lot of kids, 5-7 in fact.
She knew that if she wanted a large family like that, she needed to
start pretty soon. She sighed and jumped back up again. This wasn’t
the time to think about her ovaries and timeline. That could wait
for next week. This weekend she was going to treat herself to a
vacation and deal with all the bullshit when she got back. “I’m
going to party, party, party.” She danced around as she grabbed a
few more items and her car keys. “Vegas, here I come.”
     
    ***
     
    Holly was jamming away to
Coldplay in her car when she heard her phone beep. Thinking it was
Lacey with the hotel information, she pulled over to the side of
the highway so she could read the text message and put the hotel
information into her GPS. Her breath