“Lance?”
His crossed arms answered her question before he spoke. Kate went over and placed her hand on his rigid elbow.
“Lance, please don’t do this.”
She looked up into chocolate eyes and stroked the stubble on his cheeks, her thumb stopping the tears that had started to fall.
“I love you Kate…”
She stopped him, her voice straining, “you only think you love me.”
Choking back a sob he shook his head, “I do. I always did…”
“But you never told me and now, well now…”
Lance’s arms fell and welcomed her in, “Now?” he asked tilting her chin.
I’ve missed playing with my Friend Lance, so I decided to write for Leeroy this week.
Are you going to play? It’s a great song by Tracy Chapman called TELLING STORIES.
BRING IT!!!!
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There’s such a pull between the two of them. You write that part of their relationship so well.
thank you…anything you’d change? I never really know how to write those silences in between the words.
but I’m glad that this got the point across, for now.
I don’t know how you do that! It is pure talent! I was right there in the moment with them.
OH Kristen, I want to hang this comment up on my cubicle to remind myself that MAYBE I have some talent or something. It made my day. THANK YOU so much xo
Ohhhh, you could have squeezed the kiss in… I KNOW you could have, only a few words from one place, and another few… Danged, maybe you couldn’t have. drops her head well alright then, next time?
OOOOOH, the kiss was so implied. Kate can’t resist Lance, she wants to, but right now, her head and her heart on different pages.
LOVE when you visit.
Your writing has a strange way of bringing me back to past experiences. I love how real you make it.
I actually hope that’s a good thing…as always I love when you visit. thanks for coming over to say hi.
These 100words have got me thinking I’ve some catching up to do! Wonderful talent…and the spaces in the silence were handed perfectly!
oh, the tension, the questions. Kate’s clearly thinking this affair isn’t going to last but Lance appears to have other ideas…do they know each other from their pasts, pre-marriage? Have a missed a development of their story?
they do…Lance is an old flame…years old before marriage but after college and he never told her how he felt, until now. So she’s conflicted.
I wish Kate would trust her gut…
Her heart is stronger than her gut at this point, she’s torn and it shows.