#hazelsidentity

[ultimatesimmers]

Hazel hear a knock at her front door and walks outside to see Lance with a bag on his shoulder.

“She kicked me out….I told her about the baby.” Lance explained. 

Hazel opened her door wide and stepped back to let Lance come in and follows him back in.

“I don’t know what to say Hazel….” he said. 

“I do. Bathrooms on the left and the the couch pulls out to a bed but isn’t very comfortable. There’s an air mattress in the closet, behind the front door. The fridge is all free game.”

Hazel gets halfway up the stairs and shouts, “Except the ice cream and pickles! Those are not! And lock the front door, your ex is crazy!”

Lance laughs, “she really is though” he says to himself.

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Lance, texted me a few hours later. I didn’t even know what to say. He says Allison is unstable. And maybe she is, maybe shes not but her husbands been cheating on her for months of course her rational thinking is a little clouded. And I’m trying not to blame myself for this families falling apart, but how could I not? I didn’t know about the, but when I take a step back and look I feel even more guilty for not noticing all the signs, how could I have been so stupid? How did I not ever really care about his house. Hes a doctor for crying out loud, how did I not think that was weird? But at the end of the day...none of that matters. It doesn’t matter at all. all the little signs I missed won’t fix whats broken and it won’t give me courage, or love. It won’t make his wife not exist.... It won’t change a thing...

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Later that night Lane came back from work. He immediate walked up the to the top deck and didn't say a word. He looked at me intensely and then he spoke, “I love you Hazel”. I turned toward him “What?” I asked quickly. I was in shock... I was contemplating if I was doing the right thing and if being here was real and sincere and then he comes up here talking like this and just then I tried to speak out again, to confirm that I had heard him right. “Wait, Wh-” Just then I was interrupted by a firm and intense kiss. It was passionate and it was firm and somewhat aggressive. And that’s when I let my feet fall. I was in love with this man. I was in love with every kiss, every touch, every word, every late night, every wrinkle he makes on his forehead when he laugh. It all. I’ll take it all in. I let the kiss go and he looked in my eyes staying silent. “I love you too Lance”. He let out a laugh and hugged onto me tightly and pulled out and looked at me once more before lifting me tot he bedroom.

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I spend my days and nights on this boat decked with Lance. The days are amazing, but when the sun starts to set my world goes colorless. The color in my life fades quicker and quicker. The darker it gets, the more I think. I have so many reservations about Lance but in the moment, when we make love, I can’t hear anything bad, all my doubts, all my reservation vanish. I think I’m falling in love with him and that scares me too... It scares me that I’m falling under and if something bad surfaces I wont see it. I’ve barely been to my own home because I’ve been so captivated on this man... But behind all these reservations when were together laughing, all the doubts jump out the window. He gets me like no man has ever.... And that is the scariest part of it all....

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Hazels storms upstairs to realize shes on a decked boat.

“Lance!”

“You’re awake! Good. Drink something you’re gonna feel it today.”

Lance hands Hazel a water bottle and Hazel slaps it out of his hands to the floor

“Whoa! What the problem Hazel?!”

“Are you kidding me?! You slept with a drunk girl?”

“It wasn’t like that”

“Oh okay, how was it then Lance? You took advantage of a drunk vulnerable girl! You are really a doctor right?

“Yes of course!”

“What if I had a medical condition? Something that would cause severe damage if I had sex?”

“then you shouldn’t have been drinking either….”

“OH! SO ITS MY FAULT FOR DRINKING? SINCE WHEN DOES THAT SCREAM TAKE ME TO YOUR BOAT WHEN OBLITERATED?!”

“Absolutely not! Hazel… Please let me talk. Okay?”

“Fine”

Hazel falls to her knees crying. Lance bends down to her so they are face to face and takes in a deep breath.

“Do you have a medical condition Hazel?”

“No.”

Hazel answers Lances question avoiding eye contact, tears streaming down her face and wiping away tears.

“Hazel, I did not go into that bar to get laid. I did not take advantage of a situation. I’m not that kind of man. I was drunk too. I’m not a bad man. I save lives on a daily basis. I help woman who get rapped. I’m not that person… I’m pretty sure we slept together, but I can’t say that for sure. You asked if you could come with me because you were too drunk to drive. We came to my boat and we both kept drinking. Things happened… Things that I’m not proud of. But no one took advantage of anywhere on this boat. I just wanted to keep you safe. I didn’t even sleep on the bed. I woke up, up here. Hazel…”

“I’m-I’m sorry. I just freaked out.”

I get it. Can we start over?

Hazel stands up and nods with a slight smile, out reaching her hand to Lances

“Hello, my name is Hazel Everson and I don’t usually meet men in my panties”

Both laugh

“I’m Lance Montgomery. I’m a doctor and this is my boat. And I never bring woman here on our first date.

“Well I’m honored.”