“Howie?” This is Kay. Are you at home?”
“I just got in about 30 min. ago. Why?”
“Can I come over?”
“What’s wrong?”
“It’s something I can’t tell you over the phone. Nick’s here.”
“And you can’t talk to him?”
“Well, I was told to see you if I had any problems.”
“Uh sure…”
“Great I’ll be right over.”
“But I’m going to be in the shower. Hello? Hello?! Damn…now I can’t my bubble bath.”
Kay stormed pass Howie when he opened the door. “Hi, D. How was your trip? I missed you,” Howie said to himself. “It was just fine and I missed you too,” he answered.
“I’m so sorry, Howie. I didn’t mean to barge on in like that. It just that…grrr…I don’t know,” she said as she plopped down on to the sofa.
“What’s troubling you?” he said as he sat down.
“Well I don’t know…actually I know but why the hell am I getting tested on this and why is this so hard?” she said in a confused manner.
“Okay, calm down. Let’s do this one at a time. What are you getting tested on?”
“Remember those tests I have to go through? Well this it the next one; faithfulness.”
“And that shouldn’t be so hard to pass, would it?”
“That’s what I thought before this issue even came up. I love Alex no matter what and nothing’s going to change that. But now there’s temptation and I am getting rather tempted.”
“And this would be…”
“Nick, the person I treat like my brother and who has always treated me like a sister, kissed me today and I enjoyed it.”
“Now that’s a bad thing. Could it be that you’re just lonely and a little…umm…horny?”
“Well I have thought of that because I have been feeling a little lonely and it has been a long time. But I still shouldn’t feel like this, should I?”
“This is what a man feels every time he’s away from his love after awhile. And temptation can come from anywhere, and it hits him hard when he notices it. So I guess you’re feeling that right about now. Don’t worry, this happens to females too.”
“For a second I was worried because you were telling me about this from a male point of view. So what the hell am I going to do now?”
“How about me and you hit the clubs tomorrow night? It’ll take your mind off of things,” he said as he got up.
“Why not tonight?” she asked as she followed him to the door.
He opened the door and gently urged her out the door. “Because I was just about to take my nice relaxing bubble bath right before you called and didn’t give me a chance to tell you to come a little later, I have to take it now and get rid of this jet lag.” With that he pushed her out and slammed the door shut.