Page 27 of Blindly Yours

You didn’t have the energy to pay someone to bring you food? ;)

ASingleRose26

Ha.

BigSpoon92

I’d love to teach you to cook

ASingleRose26

Where’d you learn?

There’s an abnormally long pause before he responds.

BigSpoon92

The answer to that requires a bigger conversation. You have a few minutes to get into that?

ASingleRose26

Sure, I’ve got nothing to do

BigSpoon92

Alright. I wasn’t sure how I’d share this, but better sooner rather than later.

I set my pizza down and wait. Here comes the bomb. He lives in his mom’s basement. At least I’m prepared.

BigSpoon92

My last relationship was actually a marriage. My wife was an excellent cook, and she taught me how. She died two years ago.

My heart drops, and for a brief second, I feel like the wind has been knocked out of me. This is the last thing I expected him to say, and I’m not prepared. I hover my thumbs over the screen and gulp as secondhand pain shoots through me.

ASingleRose26

I’m…so sorry.

BigSpoon92

Thank you, I’ve come a long way in the last two years, though. I’m in a much, much better place

I feel horrible for thinking he lived in his mother’s basement. Clearly, he’s moved far past that stage in his life.

ASingleRose26

I can’t imagine… May I ask what happened?

BigSpoon92

Cancer. It spread quickly. From the time she found out to when she passed was about three months

ASingleRose26

That’s horrible. I’m so sorry.

BigSpoon92