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If
she only knew, what would she think of me? I couldn’t seem to quit thinking
about Mark.
    “Um…no, not really. The ranch hands are all older. Nice, but way older.
    “Lexi, you don’t sound good, girl. Maybe I should
come out there and visit with you for a while. I miss you too.”
    Definitely not a good idea. She would see right through me and Mark . Samantha and
I had been friends since we were little girls. “No thank you, Samantha. You
have work and all of that. I don’t want to disrupt your whole life because I’m
in a funk. Maybe next weekend I’ll come back to the city and we can see a movie
or have dinner or something. We’ll make a day or a night of it…whatever you
want.”
    “Okay. Hang in there It’s only for the summer. Oh
hey! There’s a new club opening this next week…”
    “I don’t know if I’m up for the club scene, but I’ll
keep in touch and we’ll do something, I promise. Like I said, it’s not all bad. I just miss home. Talking to you helped. It always
does. How are you and Lance doing?” That did the trick to get the subject
changed. She switched tracks quickly and started talking about Lance, her
boyfriend. She started dating him about three months ago. He’s some kind of
event promoter and I’ve always found him a little bit arrogant…but she likes
him and he makes her happy so I guess that’s what matters. I worry about her
because she usually picks the super good-looking or the super-smart or the
super-rich and somehow they leave her feeling less than what she is…wonderful.
    She launched into a blow by blow account of their
trip to San Diego last weekend and how Lance can surf and he can water ski and he can…do everything! I’m sure that’s what he tells her anyways.
Poor Samantha has worse luck with men than I do. Mine are usually just clingy
and annoying. Some of hers have actually gotten abusive with her…mostly
verbally, but that’s still abuse. Right now was the honeymoon phase for them.
She hadn’t noticed anything bad about him yet. I would keep my fingers crossed
that this time there was nothing bad to see.
    I zoned out as she went on and on and said, “Mm
hmm,” and “Uh huh,” at what I hoped were appropriate times…it was just nice to
hear a voice from home and to talk about familiar things.
    After I hung up with Samantha, I had just lain back
down on the bed when there was a knock on the door. It was the hall door, so I
suspected it was Mom and not Mark .   I sat up and swiped at my face. I still
hadn’t thought of any reason I’d been crying. “Come in!”
    Mom came in, took one look at my face and said,
“What is it, honey?”
    I smiled. She’s so sweet. “Nothing Mom, I’m fine.”
    “You were upset when you came in from outside. I saw
tears in your eyes honey. Why don’t you want to talk to me? Did Mark do
something to upset you?”
    “Mark?” I tried to sound like that was the furthest
thing from the truth. “No…not at all. I guess I’m just a little bit homesick. Being
away at the rodeo, I kept so busy I didn’t think about it. But coming back just
reminded me that I wasn’t at home. I called Samantha and that helped. She’s
crazy. We’re going to get together soon. That’s all I need, I think.”
    She sat down on the bed next to me and put her arm
around me. “I’m sorry. It’s my fault. You’re here to visit me and I’m letting
Mark do all of the entertaining. I’m sorry that you don’t like it here.”
    “Mom! Oh no, that’s not it. I love being here with you…”
    “How about if I order us a pizza and we watch a
movie tonight…just you and me? And tomorrow, we can go get our toes done or
something.”
    I smiled at her. “Okay, but please don’t apologize
for anything. I’m so happy to be here to see you. It’s just really different
out here. I’m the one who is sorry. I don’t mean to be a big baby about it. I
wasn’t going to say anything.”
    Mom hugged me and said, “I’ll go order the