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.

parents being unreliable around the holidays, but the sight of the penguin

years old! They’ve been sending me a stuffed penguin for Christmas for the past decade! I wasn’t

they studied penguins. They fell in love on an icebreaker headed to Antarctica for research. Most researchers would get sick of the environment after a few months, but not my

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 for sure. Fortunately, as soon as I was entrusted to the school,

visited human society. The only contact I have with them is a Christmas card attached to a stuffed penguin. They probably considered the little birds

has always been hard for me. No one wanted to be

Instead of being left alone, I was invited to too many gatherings

people.

two years I dated Vincent, we went to his parents’ house. He was from a big family with religious parents. Ever since I was first invited to one of their Christmas parties, I’ve

of my

family party again, but I definitely didn’t want to spend the

me to go

opportunity while she was there because her father made huge donations to the school’s library. Before Vincent, I spent

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,

This year, he was planning on taking a cruise! The ship was set to depart from Greece and

then there was

me

it on a

even though they didn’t want to get married at all. All they wanted was to play with

Like Vincent.

we just got engaged. If I had to guess, I’d say it’s probably