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friends. “I haven’t seen those two since high school.”
    “I’m sure they’d love to see you again,” she said. “They always liked you a lot.”
    “That’s good to know,” I told her.
    “OK, I’ll find your number in the patient file. I’ll call you later.”
    “Sounds good, Anna,” I said, not sure if I should be relieved that I was getting out of telling her everything, or dreading putting it off until later.
    Oh well , I thought. At least I tried.

Chapter Eight
Anna
    A s much as I didn’t want to interrupt Hunter while he had something important to say, I didn’t want to put off my talk with Nate any longer either. Sooner or later I had to tell him that things weren’t going to work out between us, and now seemed as good a time as any.
    “Hello?” I said as I walked up the steps into my apartment.
    “Hey, pretty girl,” came Nate’s voice through the line.
    “Hey,” I said, already feeling guilty about what I had to say. “How are you? Sorry I missed your call this morning.”
    “Oh, that’s quite all right, sugar,” he said. “It’s a good thing you answered this time though, because otherwise I might have started to get jealous, thinking that you found some other guy.”
    Something about the way he said that struck me as odd, but I decided to ignore it. I had other things I needed to talk to him about at the moment.
    “Listen, Nate, we really need to talk.”
    “All right, cupcake, I’m listening.”
    I took a deep breath and gathered up all my nerve. We hadn’t been seeing each other for that long, but breaking it off with someone was always a difficult, nerve-wracking experience for me. And, over the past nine years, breaking it off with people seemed to be all I ever did. I could never quite find anyone who was good enough. And Nate was no exception.
    “Well, as you know, I just moved to Los Angeles,” I started, thinking the long-distance factor would be an easy, believable reason to give him, less hurtful than that it just didn’t feel right.
    “I know it. Pretty far away from Australia,” he agreed.
    “Exactly,” I said, somewhat relieved. It seemed like he knew where I was going, and maybe he would take the news pretty easily. I just hoped he wouldn’t argue with me like last time. “And we haven’t known each other that long,” I went on.
    “No, not very long at all,” he agreed again. The fact that Nate was agreeing with everything I was saying was starting to creep me out a little.
    “Anyway, my point is that I don’t think we know each other well enough to maintain a long-distance relationship. So, I’m sorry but I think we should call it quits.”
    “I see,” Nate said slowly. “So, it’s only because of the long-distance thing?”
    “Well, mostly,” I started, not sure if I should add more.
    “If that’s the only problem, then I think I have the solution,” he said.
    “What? What do you mean—”
    Before the question was out of my mouth, I heard a knock at the front door. I froze in place.
    What the hell?
    Something about the way he was talking was unnerving me. And then, suddenly, there was this knock on the door. Surely...
    “Um, Nate?”
    “Don’t you think you’d better answer the door?”
    “Oh boy,” I muttered to myself, as I looked through the peephole and saw Nate’s smiling face on the other side. I hung up the phone and took a second to collect my breath.
    I guess I shouldn’t have used distance as an excuse , I thought to myself before opening the door.
    “Hey, sugar!” Nate said with a huge grin. “Mind if I come in?”
    Before I could answer, he barged his way in, taking me by the hand and forcing me to follow him to the living room and onto the couch.
    “Glad to see me?” he asked.
    “Um, a little surprised,” I confessed.
    “I decided to come back to California after all,” he told me. “Isn’t that great? Now we can be together, since distance isn’t a problem.”
    “Nate, I—”
    Before I could say