Wanted

Three

I'm at the supermarket when I run into Kate who is hungover "Hey" I say, she stares at me blankly "are you alive?"

"I am" nodding her head "and...and I'm looking around" she looks at the Deli section to see a bunch of house wives ordering food or whatever "and thinking about my life and and I have no one to talk to since all my friends are Mark's friends too"

"If you want" I tell her "we can talk later today, dinner?"

"I'd like that" nodding her head, we exchange numbers before leaving. After I've stocked my refrigerator and pantry, I get a text from Mark asking how me and the baby are. I tell him everything's okay, rubbing my belly I think about what my child will think of it's father. When it's old enough I'll tell it the truth.

I then decide to go buy some dogs, when I get to the pet store I go to the puppy section and look around seeing six husky puppies: two black puppies, two brown and two white "Hello ma'am" looking at a worker "can I help you?"

"These three" I ask "do they have names?"

Shaking his head no "We've tried to sell them but the puppies don't want to be apart, three boys and three girls"

"I'll buy them all" I say

"Really?" He asks, I nod my head. He smiles "let's talk about the pricing and if you want them to be trained?"

"I do" nodding my head

After an hour, I pay in full over five thousand dollars for all six puppies. I've decided to name the puppies Apollo, Thanatos, Death, Killer, Morgana and Persephone. Going to the building Kate texted me I go to find her waiting outside with a big dog that's the same as Scooby Doo. What breed was that? Great Dane I think.

"Hey" she smiles looking at me "I bought Chinese, I hope that's okay?"

"Chinese is good" nodding my head "what's your dog's name?"

"Thunder is his name" she says then looks at my puppies who look at Thunder wagging their tails going around him "what about theirs?"

"Apollo, Thanatos, Death, Killer, Morgana and Persephone" I tell her which is which "three boys and three girls" when a woman leaves, Kate quickly goes through the door and motions for me to do the same "do you live here?" I live in your typical modern two story suburban house, well we have three homes or I do. I own a house in the Hamptons that I plan on moving to and a villa in Italy.

"No" shaking her head "Carly does"

"Then why" I ask "didn't you use the ringer thing?" She pressed the doorbell multiple times.

"Oh my god" I hear Carly whisper

"Oh, sorry" Kate leans up to the eyehole "it's me, don't...don't be mad" holding up the food "it's also Violet—we wanted to talk. I brought some dinner for us, all of us"

"How do you know where I live?" She asks

"I followed you" Kate tells her and I make a face "I'm not a stalker, I just followed you and waited outside of your building until a resident left and came in. I texted Violet the address and I didn't want to be empty handed so I brought some food"

"I want to let you know" I tell Carly through the door "I expected to meet her at her place or at a restaurant"

Kate just smiles, Cary opens the door and demands "What is your deal? Do you not get how weird this is?"

"All of her friends are Mark's friends too" I tell Carly "so she can't go to one of them and your the only other woman who we can talk to about Mark being an asshole"

"My whole world blew up" she cries "and unlike you two I don't have a job and I have no money of my own and all I have is my dog and I have no idea what to do"

"I can't talk to you" Carly says in a serious voice "unless you stop crying and if you want to cry cry in the inside like a winner, as far as talking to someone you both have each other or get a therapist"

Tilting my head "If this were any other situation we might be friends, we still might be but...I don't know"

She looks at us then to the bag "I get first dibs on whatever is in there" we come in "and keep your dogs off my furniture"

"Thunder" Kate whispers to Thunder who jumps up onto the couch, my puppies I have stay on the carpet.

Carly comes in sighing annoyed before coming back with wine, I tell her "I like your place, very cool and open with"

Nodding her head "Well have a seat" I sit down on the couch as Kate says "I don't want to sit where you and Mark had sex so...is the ottoman okay?" She shakes her head making a face "what about the chair?" She shakes her head again.

"I'm going to" I cut her off "is there anywhere here that you and Mark haven't fucked in?"

She looks around before shaking her head "If we're being honest" seeing Kate go to the window.

"The window?" Kate demands "people can see in"

"Just pick a spot" I tell Kate "I'm no happy about it either but"

"Fine" she looks at me "how old are you? Are you a model?"

"I'm twenty five and yes I was a model" nodding my head "now I'm an assistant at a fashion company, Fantasia? The magazine? I work there and I am currently writing a cook book"

Nodding her her sitting next to me "A model, Mark married a model" we hear a buzzing and she asks "is that Mark?"

"Yes it is" nodding her head ignoring the call

"Mark is in Miami" she says "so why is he calling you from Miami?"

"She's obviously blocking him or wanting phone sex" I tell Kate "it's why he's calling, right?"

"Right" Carly nods her head "congratulations on the pregnancy, how far are you?"

"About three months" I tell them "I called Katherine Davis?" Carly nods her head "we're going to go over the process since I'm pregnant so thank you"

"Glad I could help" she says

"So" Kate asks "how did this pregnancy happen? Cause he didn't want kids with me it seems"

"I was sick, the one week Mark was at home" I tell them "I had antibiotics, messed with my birth control also before you ask Kate Mark only stays with me once for a whole week and is gone for the next two"

"I can't believe he told you I was dead" she shakes her head "and you just don't talk to him? What about you Violet?"

"I text and call" I tell them "I don't want him to know that I know anything—which is why next week when we go to my sister's birthday I'm not letting him know anything"

"Smart" Carly nods her head approvingly "the less he knows and the more you know the better"

"Does he love you? The both of you?" She asks "and he's going to a birthday with you?"

"Kate" she looks at me "if he loved either of us, he wouldn't have done this—the best thing you can do for yourself is to divorce his ass since half of his is technically ours, we can team up and beat his ass. Take him for everything he's worth or I can ask my friend who is an FBI agent" he technically is "to help us out"

"You have a friend in the FBI?" She asks

"I have an assassin for a friend and know how to get my hands on drugs" I tell her "before I met Mark I sold drugs"

"You were a drug dealer?" Carly asks. Nodding my head, she stares at us "if I'm going to do this I'm going to need a drink"