Looking down, she nodded again and pressed his hands firmly. And kept squeezing. ‘Ow, Soph -‘ ‘I understand that you’re a lying, uncaring bast...rd who thinks he has a right to my every private thought while keeping two years of your life to himself.’ Casting his hands from her clasp, she stomped her foot in fury. ‘Two years Cole! She took you away from me for two whole years and you won’t even tell me how it ended.’ ‘Just leave it, Sophie, I mean it,’ Cole gritted out. . They both used to talk a lot. This continued for a few days.One day I saw Jose coming home to drop mom on his bike. I asked mom why has Jose dropped you to which she said, “Jose had passed with good marks. So he wanted to give a treat to me, and he took me to a coffee shop nearby.”I was getting anxious about the growing proximity between both of them. One night I got up around 12 am to drink water. I heard a voice coming from mom’s room. As I went near, I heard mom talking with someone over. She sighed in resignation and took both.The debate took place in the studios of WBUR, the local NPR station, with news analyst Bruce Gellerman moderating. There was a small audience of about 200 people--the free tickets had been distributed some weeks before, but had changed hands several times on the streets since then, the current scalper price being close to $80. Donna looked out at the crowd, all of them so anxious to see her, all of them wanting to fuck her. God, she hoped this was over. It was the perfect excuse to skip the day's run and God knows I loved any excuse to skip the run. I just couldn't bring myself to do it that morning. I had eaten too much crap, since I left on the trip to Florida, So like it or not I put on my dirty fleece running pants. I would have worn the clean ones, but since the weather was shit, why bother. They were at least dry, I thought.Yes I even wore the stinky tee and sweat shirt from the day before. I was tempted to put on my bright yellow.