Wooing The Ex-Wife

Liza groaned as Alice nudged her with her foot again. They had been going over this for the past week and even though Liza wanted nothing more than to acknowledge the truth in Alice's words, she was still hesitant. I had been almost a year and a half from her break up with Steve. She was over him. She hadn't lamented on loss of her almost perfect relationship with Steve for as long as she thought she would have. They had really fallen out of love, she guessed. She had seen Steve's picture in a magazine with some super model, the magazine claiming them to be an item now, however instead of feeling jealousy she had merely felt a slight tug of missing her friend. She had instead focused her attention on Jonathan sitting in front of her, stuffing his face with cupcakes she had brought. They had been flirting with each other for months now. An occasional wink, a suggestive remark, smooth comments by Jonathan making Liza blush and of course his sincerity which was pulling her in every day. As she grew closer to Jonathan, she realized that he had turned out to be a better man, than he was before.

"What is holding you back, Liza?" Alice asked already knowing the answer. "You know what it is Al. I don't want the history to repeat itself and even if I do like him, it won't matter anyways, he doesn't feel like that about me anymore." Liza said. "Have you seen the way, he looks at you? He would take a bullet for you Liz and I would have never asked you to give him a chance again if I hadn't seen him change. In any other circumstance I would have stopped you from going to him again, you know how I feel about what he did to you, right?" Alice said. Liza knew all about how Alice felt about her history with Jonathan, after all Alice had been the first person she had gone too after finding out about Jonathan's infidelity. It had been Alice who had cursed out Jonathan, who had implored Liza to leave Jonathan and who had been Liza's support system when she had refused to leave him determined to make their marriage work. Alice despite of being Jonathan's sister, had supported her all the way and even after their contact had been reduced to emails and occasional phone calls, she had remained like a constant in Liza's life. Liza knew that she could trust Alice's judgement of Jonathan but what she couldn't trust were her own reactions.

the nights she had spent alone crying in her pillow. Was she even capable of putting that amount of trust in Jonathan again? She had definitely gotten close to Jonathan but could she afford to love him? All the questions and doubts clouded her mind, making it difficult for her to get past her wariness and hesitation. Liza sighed and

she had fallen for years ago and their history felt so distant that she was tempted to give in. Her heart pounded whenever she was near him, blushing like a school girl, flirting like a teenager.