Between Never and Forever

by Shain Rose

I’m surprised my manager even let you through.” “Let me through?” I muttered through gritted teeth, rage pumping in my stomach, in my bones, through my blood. “No one is going to let me do shit when it comes to you. You’re my girlfriend.” “Ex-girlfriend,” she murmured. “What?” I stepped back like she’d pummeled me. “We can’t keep doing this. It’s not good for either of us. It’s never going to work with me moving and…” Her voice broke, but she managed to get out, “You can’t just be with me in secret for years. They have me under contract for three, and what if I re-sign with them? They’ll want me with someone…” “Someone who will propel your career? Someone like Ethan Phillipe?” I wrestled the words out now, knowing where this was going. “It’s not only about him, Dex. Do you honestly think it’s healthy for you to see me flirting with him out there and then coming back to apologize to you in private?” “Then tell the label about us.” I said the words slowly because I’d never said them before. She hissed, “What?” “Tell them about us,” I repeated.