Cheat With My Boyfriend Best Friend

Why Not Breakup?

Christmas was coming, whether I wanted it or not.

Mariah Carey was playing in on every speaker, and each of the small shops along the street were decorated with red and green ribbons. Starbucks was serving their annually seasonal drinks (btw, they all tastes the same), and the sweet smell of baked gingerbread wafted around every corner.

Everyone was welcoming the Christmas spirit, except me.

And it wasn’t just my work that was getting me down.

I knew trying to yield any results before Christmas would be hopeless. It would take a miracle to make that kind of progress in a week, and it was a little too late to ask Santa.

I swallowed a mouthful of my pumpkin spice latte as I worried: Where on earth was I going to spend Christmas?

For most people, it’s a no-brainer. They were going to go see their families. All in all, Christmas was the festival for families.

But my family was just a headache to deal with every year.

Last night I found a dirty package in my mailbox from my parents. It came with a postcard that said, “Sweetie, we’re sorry we won’t be able to spend Christmas with you this year either. We’ve reached a critical stage of our research, but we still made sure to get you a gift.”

I wasn’t surprised when I opened the package.

It was a stuffed penguin.

the holidays, but

old! They’ve been sending me a stuffed penguin for Christmas for the past

Most researchers would get sick of the environment after a few months,

came to New York, they were lucky they found a boarding school that would accept someone as young as three months old. If they were stuck in the city, they would’ve divorced

Christmas card

one wanted to be alone while everyone else was out throwing reunions

I had the opposite problem. Instead of being left alone,

people.

parents’ house. He was from a big family with religious parents. Ever since I

was hard to say how much of my “love” for Vincent was just love

year, he invited me to his family party again, but I definitely didn’t want to spend the holiday with the

invited me to go to a ski

school when we were younger. I was there because of a scholarship opportunity while she was there because her

family was huge. Her father had been married four times, so his number of children was in the double digits, and that’s not even counting the illegitimate ones. Her entire family got together for Christmas, and it was always a good show. Sometimes, Cinder went home to see the fun for herself, but this year, it seemed like

me… Given everything he was going through right now, he needed a friend to keep him company. This year, he was planning on taking a cruise! The ship was set to depart from Greece and sail along the Mediterranean

there was Aaron’s

me

he’d mentioned it on a whim, which

about marriage just to win a woman’s heart, even though they didn’t want to get married at

Like Vincent.

an extra gift for you since we just got engaged.