Post by angela on Oct 11, 2012 2:50:59 GMT -5
Claudia looked at him. She had her wallet in her hand, but she had not yet opened it. He had offered to start over, pretend like nothing had happened. She sighed. How were they supposed to just start over and pretend like things were fine. She set her wallet on the table and shook her head.
"No," she said. "No... I don't want a hug." She shook her head and brushed her hair from her face. A hug probably would have helped to comfort her, but she knew that it would not make her feel better. So what was the point? Besides, what was to say that he could not try to pull some trick and touch her backside while he was hugging her? Maybe her imagination was just running wild, but she had a fair reason to think these things. He had spent the past while calling her attractive and beautiful and hot, so she didn't know what to think.
The counselor placed the palms of her hands on either side of her hips and looked down at her lap. She probably should have taken his offer for a hug, but she did not want to seem helpless and needy and overly emotional.
"I... I resigned myself to being a mother," she stated quietly. "I told myself that... that it was enough. And it is enough. I don't need a relationship. I don't need a boyfriend or a husband or anything. I have my kids, and that's all that matters to me right now." He did not ask for an explanation, but she had given him one anyway. She knew that he probably didn't care, but she thought that he should at least know. So if he planned on trying to follow her around and talk her into dating him, it would be easier said than done.