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should make sure to let them know the important things… like being late?”
    Her stare was so intense that Jacob had to look away. He finally felt it, the thing that the reverend noticed the minute she walked in. He felt as if her eyes were throwing daggers into his soul and he couldn’t look at her any more.
    The session was tense and the reverend felt it. For the first thirty minutes, Annabelle didn’t say much at all. For most of it, she just sent sharp stares at her lover Jacob. For the second half, she spoke here and there. She wasn’t all over the room, touching things, or bouncy. She was stoic and quiet.
    “So, Annabelle, anything on your mind, anything bothering you?” the reverend asked. He watched her bite her bottom lip, frown, and after, a sly smile.
    “Nah, nothing much, I just have one question.” She turned to Jacob and with the smile still on her face, she asked,
    “Am I your one and only love?”
    The room went silent. Reverend Bell felt as if the question came crashing into the room. Through her smile, he saw pain, a woman who just wanted the truth. Her tone said it all. Her smile really wasn’t a smile at all. Jacob, with what seemed to be a sincere tone, took his girlfriend’s hand and answered her.
    “You are the only one for me, Annabelle; I told you that. There is no one else out there for me. I only love you.”
    With those loving words, with that lying tongue, and within the couple’s therapy session, Jacob sealed his fate.

Your Last Chance
    As the couple left what would be their last in person therapy session together, Annabelle turned and asked the reverend for his card. She didn’t know at that moment why she would use it, but she took one just in case. In all her time going there, she had never bothered. The therapy was Jacob’s idea in the first place. She couldn’t believe that he had her doing that dumb shit, as if they really had a future, as if he was really going to marry her. That’s why they started to go. He said that if she were to be his wife, they would need to work on the problems that they already had.
    As the couple rode in silence, Jacob was still having a hard time understanding Annabelle’s attitude. The whole week had been hard with her. She would barely take his calls and when she did, she hardly spoke.
    “What in the fuck is wrong with you, little girl?” Jacob couldn’t take it anymore; enough was enough.
    “Pull under the bridge and stop the car.”
    “What; why?” Jacob was starting to think that something was wrong with her.
    “Did you hear me Jacob? Please pull over. I have something I need to do.”
    As the car came to a slow stop, Jacob looked at the girl he once knew and didn’t see anything familiar.
    “Why did you ask me to stop here?” She didn’t answer. Instead, she pulled off her pants and got on top of him.
    “Belle, this is crazy, what are you---?”
    “Shut the fuck up and just look at me.”
    Jacob did as he was told.
    “We have been together for a few years now. I met you when I was 21 and you were 31. Now, five years later, with the same 10 years between us, I want you to tell me something,” she stopped talking and unbuttoned his pants. She stuck her hand in his boxers and pulled out his long pole, which had begun to harden under her touch.
    “Tell me, why did you pick me? Why am I the only one for you?” Jacob was more concerned with her body than her words, as he answered. He should have thought more about the words that he was about to speak, but her body was calling him.
    “I picked you because as soon as I saw you, I knew that you were a rare gem. I knew that I had to have you. As far as why you are the only one for me, well, I just wouldn’t be able to live without you.” Before he answered, Annabelle had been working her body against his rod, but as his beautiful lies slipped out of his mouth, she stopped. It was brief, but she just needed to look at him.
    “Okay, so now, what I want you to do is, as you tell