chapter 44
Larry Carter was mad. It had been two days, two long days since he left his message on Dana’s home answering machine.
She wasn’t calling him back.
It suddenly dawned on him that maybe Dana didn’t understand who he was. She was just like the people in high school. Just like the people at his work.
“Larry’s so weird.”
“A loner.”
“He kind of creeps me out.”
Larry had overheard them all a thousand times, standing in the shadows of secret conversations where truths were told. No one really knew him. No one. Not his parents who left him an orphan at age seven. Not the foster parents that kept him for a few months before rejecting him and sending him on to another home only to be discarded again. Not The Bitch who stopped loving him once he stopped paying her.
No, no one bothered to know the real Larry.
He was wonderful, caring and capable of deep love.
Through it all, Dana was always there with him every day on the radio, talking to him, telling him stories about her life. And when he’d call her, she’d talk to him and listen to him.
Not like his foster parents. Not like the people at work. Not like The Bitch.
Dana was the woman for him...she just didn’t realize it.
He was her destiny.
And now he’d have to prove it to her.