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to put into her bag. She was as ready as she was going to get.
    She carried her bags downstairs and put them by the front door. It was only one thirty so she decided she had plenty of time to call Rachel.
     
    “ What’s going on? Where have you been? How was the date?” Rachel asked in lieu of hello.
     
    “Hi, to you too,” Gia sarcastically responded. “The date was good. It was crashed by Sheila, but I put that bitch in her place. After dinner, we went and sat by the river. Then we came back to my place. I fell asleep. He left this morning. He invited me to his house to swim in his pool and eat barbeque. That about wraps it up.”
     
    “Back it up. What happened with Sheila?” Rachel was pissed. This woman just wouldn’t stop. She’d been telling Mr. Roberts for weeks that this chick was crazy. Whatever. He could do what he wanted, but if Sheila touched her sister, it was on.
    “ Basically she called us hired help. I handed her my card and told her she may need to call me if she didn’t stop stalking Brad.”
     
    “OMG! No you didn’t. Was she mad?” Rachel was laughing but she was also so proud of her baby sister.
     
    She ripped up my card and went stomping off. “Eventually you will come back to me,” Gia said in an irritating Sheila-esque shrill response.
     
    “HAHA, said Rachel laughing. She better not call the office again.”
     
    Gia didn’t want to put her sister in a bad mood but she wanted to give her time for her issues. “What’s going on with Vinnie? Are the boy’s home?”
     
    “He is at his mom’s house. He keeps begging me to let him come back home, but I can’t forgive him. I finally stopped crying.”
     
    “Well that’s a good thing.”
     
    “Yeah. Now, I’m just angry and bitter. The boys are still with Mommy and Daddy. They’re going down the shore for the week. They should be ok. They have summer work for school and mom has stuff planned for them to do all week.”
     
    “That sucks. Do they suspect anything? Do you think you will forgive him? Do you think he means what he says?”
     
    “I don’t know. We’ve been together so long, but I feel like I can’t trust him. The kids don’t know anything. His mom is giving him hell for doing what he did.”
    “ Absolutely. She thinks you’re the best thing that happened to him and you’re her grandsons’ mother. Give it a couple days and don’t rush into anything. At least you’re free all week with no pressure.”
     
    “I think I might call out tomorrow. Oh, you didn’t hear that, future wife of my boss.” They both laughed loudly.
     
    “Get out of here. You’re crazy, we had one date.”
     
    One amazing date.
     
    “It seems to be moving kind of quick,” Rachel said slyly.
     
    “Whatever. Don’t start,” Gia warned.
     
    “I’m just saying.”
    “ We’ll see what happens. I have to get going. I’m being picked up at two by Gary, the driver.”
     
    “Whatever, I’m just going to sit here and watch depressing Lifetime movies all day.”
     
    “You’re so dramatic. I gotta go, bye.”
     
    As they hung up the phone, Gia hoped everything worked out for Rachel. She felt bad for her and hated seeing her like this. She knew what it was like because she had been through it before. The only difference was she wasn’t married with two kids, and walking away had been easier.
     
    The knock at the door pulled her from her thoughts. It was Gary. She was surprised to see that he was actually a really good looking guy in his early forties. She expected an older distinguished gentleman like the guy from the The Princess Diaries movies . He placed her bags in the trunk and then opened the door for her to get in the back seat.
     
    “How are you doing today, Miss Coppi?” Gary asked politely. Gia didn’t feel he needed to use formalities.
     
    “Please, call me Gia. I’m doing well. How about yourself?”
     
    He smirked, “I’m pleased to meet you, Gia.”
     
    They sat the rest of the way in