She always thought his smile was cute. She thought his jokes were funny. She marveled at his style. His physique. His aura. He was her dream man and she was pathetically in love with him. She wished he was hers, all for herself. But he couldn’t be hers and her best friend’s at the same time. Her best friend Kate had been dating Mark for the past half year. It ate her up, seeing them together. This was the longest relationship Kate had been in, in years. Kate had this little habit of finding fault in all her partners. If he didn’t snore too loudly, he had a deep vernacular accent. If he didn’t speak too much, he did not understand her love language. If he wasn’t too hairy, he had ugly toes. Kate would always come up with weird excuses to end the relationship weeks into thinking she had found her soulmate. But Mark was perfect. Too perfect that Kate’s best friend had jokingly warned her that if she let him fly away, she should not be surprised if he wound up in her nest. At first, it seemed like a far-fetched joke between two friends but the possibility […]
