Betting Against the Odds by Sabrina Morgan Page B

her face which was smiling, “I miss you Matt I made a mistake but we were good together just call me when ever and I will meet you. There are some things we need to talk about regardless and you know it.” She got up kissing me on the lips and waving bye to us as she swayed her hips leaving me confused and bewildered.
    I must have looked dazed or something because all of a sudden Penelope was walking away and Anna was running after her and Luke glaring at me. I went to get up to follow Penelope but Luke pushed me down by my shoulder.
    I glared at him but her just shook his head no, “Don’t dude I don’t know what the hell you were thinking but you don’t make out with one girl and then have another girl throw themselves at you. Let alone the other girl be supermodel thin, beautiful, and supposedly you ex- fiancée and not only that but you let her kiss you well you ogled her body” Luke stopped shaking his head angrily.
    I sat there stunned when he started speaking again, “I like Pen.  She is different innocent and kind and Annabeth says she feels like Pen. has things in life that we can’t possibly understand now I don’t know why she is doing this bucket list or anything but what I don’t know is the way you look at her is the way I look at my cupcake. You might not know yet but you are falling for her and I have a feeling she is falling for you but even though she is confident she is insecure about her weight, looks, and whatever else is bugging her and now you just fucked up by making her feel like nothing. You discarded her just like her parents.”
    I sat there in shock letting his words sink in as I watched him walk towards the girls saying something to make them laugh. I watched as Penelope smiled at him her face lighting up and I knew everything that Luke said was correct and now I had to fix it.
                  Penelope hasn’t said a word to me in three days and I was going crazy so damn crazy. I slept on the couch as she slept in the room with the door locked. She looked tired her eyes were red and she was having more headaches but supposedly her doctor was getting her prescriptions ready in three days.
    I haven’t contacted Isabella and I didn’t want to but I knew that didn’t matter to Penelope at all. I told Anna and Luke to not be home tonight for I decided to cook Penelope dinner to try to get us back on track.
    I was simmering a bowl of pasta sauce when Penelope opened the door about to speak when she saw me standing in the kitchen, “Where are Anna and Luke?” she asked quietly.
    I almost dropped my spoon at the sound of her talking to me, “Um they went out for dinner so I decided to make us some of my mom’s famous Chicken Alfredo and breadsticks.”
    I smiled at her warmly encouraging her to stay but she just shook her head, “I don’t think this is a good idea Matt I am tired I have been getting a lot of headaches.”
    I went towards her slowly, “Please love let me explain this whole thing with Isabella,” she started to turn away but I grabbed her softly, “Please I thought we were friends?”
    She stopped turning around to look at my face taking in my features she gave me a quick nod sitting down as I rushed to plate our food.
    “Who is she?” she asked.
    I smiled at the question happy for the fact that she wants to talk I placed our food down her thanking me as I sat across from her, “Isabella and I dated for three years in high school she was my first love right after we got an apartment with each other. I asked her to marry me she said yes.”
    I stopped talking well Penelope looked at me solemnly, “What happened?”
    I sighed reaching for my wine, “Well one day I went home early from work I heard noises in my bedroom. I opened my door and there she was having sex with my best friend Ian.”
    “Oh my God. Seriously?” Penelope dropped her fork as I sat there remembering that day.
    I smiled at her a small smile, “Yup it turns out that they were