The Day I Kissed An Older Man

Corinne recognized that voice. It was the same woman who picked up Jeremy’s phone when Francine called him last time.

She felt her heart inexplicably aching.

She did not ask him who the woman was as she trusted he would explain everything to her without needing to prompt him. To her surprise, he did no such thing.

Instead, he quickly said, “Hey, I gotta go now. Be a good girl and go to bed early, okay?”

Corinne did not even have a chance to ask what was happening when Jeremy hung up on her. She listened as the disconnected tone floated into her ear.

‘Who is that woman? Why didn’t he explain himself?’ she asked herself.

She threw her phone aside and climbed into her bed. Feeling sad and insecure, she hugged her pillow tightly and curled herself into a ball.

every night in this way when she was a child. After she grew up and gained

have rushed back to erode her self-esteem again. Slowly, she started to

day, the sun was already shining brightly in the sky. The warm

the first thing she saw was not the room’s furnishing but a man’s

the chest in front of her,

just woken up, she remembered she had spent the night in the

me?’ Various possibilities flashed through Corinne’s mind

to sneak into my room last night!’ thought Corinne with shock. She quickly pushed the man away and looked under the blanket to see whether she was

disappointment, she found herself

is not

suddenly and screamed angrily at the

“Ahhh!”