Rebecca Laramie was tired. After a long shift at St. Mary's Hospital for children she made the 30 minute drive home to her tiny apartment. It never mattered how tired she was she loved the drive into her small home town. She had traveled some for college but still didn't go far and always came home on breaks. Rebecca had always known what she wanted out of life. She wanted to be a nurse, to have a husband and children and to help people. She thought she had found part of that at least. Rebecca had met Martin when she was just starting at St. Mary's a little over 2 years ago. She was happy and thought they were on the road to marriage.
That was until a month ago, when she got off her shift early due to an over staffing mishap. Rebecca had made the drive home to change before going to surprise Martin at his office. She unlocked her door and heard a noise from her bedroom. Thinking her cat must have knocked something over she walked back to the room. She opened the door and froze. There in her bed was Martin naked and tangled up with her best friend Lila. She stood there in shock for a few moment before slipping back out quietly. She knew they didn't see or hear her so she grabbed the pitcher of water out of fridge and walked back to the door. Slipping her phone out of her pocket she quietly snapped a couple pictures of proof. She knew Lila would try and say she was lying to their friends. She pocketed her phone and walked to the edge of her bed, throwing the entire pitcher of ice water over the two of them.
Lila screamed and Martin jumped off the bed. Once he realized she was standing there he started trying to convince her it meant nothing. That he came over to wait for her to get off and Lila showed up and seduced him. Lila didn't speak, just sat there with tears falling down her face. She turned to Lila and said "Stop crying now. You chose to open your legs to him. You slept with my boyfriend Lila. We've been best friends since we were 6 years old! Get dressed and get the fuck out you whore. Do not contact me again. We are done completely." Turning back to Martin she said "You think I believe one word you said? I know how she is, how she seduces people which includes wine and the works. How long have you been sleeping with her?" He hung his head and sighed "6 months. She did seduce me the first time though so it wasn't a total lie. We meet here because she lives with her mom and lets face it you work long hours."
She grabbed his keys off her dresser and removed her house key. She handed him the keys and said "Get dressed and get out. We're done. Do not contact me again. I will make my excuses to your mother as to why I won't make it this weekend. I hope you enjoy Lila, but a word of advice, get checked out. Lila has been treated for several STDs. Luckily we've always used protection. I'm sure she told you it was fine because she couldn't get pregnant." He hung his head and sighed "Alright I screwed up, I hurt you. I'll leave and get tested because you're right, we didn't use protection most of the time. But I never touched you without it. So I seriously hope I haven't gotten anything or given anything to you. I will only contact you if the tests come out that I have something. I do love you Rebecca. I'm sorry." She watched as he walked away, then stripped the bed and threw all the bedding in the trash. Picking up her phone she called her sister and told her what happened. They talked for hours before she was okay to go shopping for new bedding.
Shaking the memory away she sighed and got out of her truck. She entered her apartment and decided to relax with a bottle of wine as she had the next two days off. After getting comfortable she checked her home messages, she had changed her cell number due to Lila constantly calling her to beg her forgiveness. There were 3 messages from Lila and 1 from Martin letting her know his tests had come back clean and he wished her a happy birthday. There was 1 from her sister asking her to call her that night. Smiling she picked up her phone and called her sister who wanted to check in and tell her she should move on and find someone better. They were both laughing by the time they hung up.
Some time later and well into her bottle of wine Rebecca decided she needed to change her life. She wanted to start over somewhere else where she wouldn't see Lila and Martin together, or see his family. Her Family no longer lived in this small town, her sister moved to Oklahoma 3 years ago, a year later her mom followed. So what was she still doing here? She stayed because of Martin and her job. Sighing she pulled up her laptop and did some research on other children hospitals in the area around her family. She noticed that the closest one wasn't a children's hospital only so she expanded her search. She found two major ones that had several locations in the Dallas/Fort Worth Area in Texas. It was only a couple hours from her family, close enough to go visit often but not be always bombarded.
Grinning to herself she brought up a classified site to look at apartments and houses for rent. As she was looking at the site she came across the link to the personal ads. She thought about it, then decided why not look through them, if nothing else some should be good for a laugh. She had been looking through them for 30 minutes when she came across one that caught her eye and made her pause to think about reading it.
Lonely Cowboy looking for something more...
Rebecca opened it up and read the whole ad and smiled, she even laughed at parts. She noticed it was only posted a few hours before and decided to reply. Opening up her e-mail she figured what's the worse that could happen? He could not even respond. She smiled as she typed her E-mail to him.
RE: Lonely Cowboy looking for something more....
Hi Lonely Cowboy
My name is Rebecca and I am 29 years old. I am a pediatric nurse at the children's hospital here in a small New York town. Before you wonder why a small town woman from New York is responding i'll explain, I was actually looking at your local craigslist ads to see about renting a place because I have family in south west Oklahoma and the closest children's hospital is there in Dallas and i'm planning to relocate there. I saw the personal ads section and even though i've never looked through them before I decided to peek. Your ad caught my eye. I chose to specialize in pediatric nursing because I love working with children, I especially love working with the children with special needs. I will miss my regular patients when I leave here but my heart tells me there is more out there. I love the outdoors and being in a small town. When I have time off I love to go hiking and camping. And yes this girl even knows how to fish ;-) I rarely drink and don't believe in smoking or drugs. Now as for the whole southern gentleman thing, i'm not opposed to it , just never experienced what that means. Lol! I've never had a man open my door but then i'm from New York. What else would you like to know? Will you tell me more about yourself and your children? You said one of them has medical needs? I will include a picture here so you can see I really am a woman ;-)
Hope to hear from you,
Rebecca
After reading through her response again she attached a picture of herself someone took at the hospital. She was laughing when she clicked send, thinking he would probably never respond. Shutting down her computer she decided to head off to bed.
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Lonely Cowboy Looking For....
RomantikKyle is a single father of two children, one with special needs. He's tired of being lonely. His friends suggest posting an ad online to see whats out there. Rebecca is a pediatric nurse who's life just isn't what she wants. She wants a family and...
