Excerpts

Read excerpts of Things We Did For Love by Rashieka Sims.

Damn! How did I end up here? Why, why, why didn’t I stay at home? These are just some of the questions running through my mind as we rode down the unfamiliar country roads surrounded by darkness. While the crisp, December air whipped through the back window of my best friend Melanie’s grey Grand Am. I looked out of the passenger window at the space where the rearview mirror used to be as it now dangled from the side of the car. Beyond the whistling from the wind and the clanking of the mirror, no other sounds could be heard as Melanie and I rode in complete silence. More…

Chapter 5 – This Bud’s for You

I know I seem like I’m immune to the tricks of Love that my friends have fallen for, but I’m not. I too have been duped by Love a time or two. I’ve only really been in love with two people, and the experience was enough to make me stay single for the rest of my damn life. C.J. was the first; he was the type of guy that I could love one day and literally want to push down a flight of stairs the next. He knew exactly what buttons to push, and it drove me insane. Although I knew he was intentionally doing things to piss me off, I continued to play the game with him. After about eight years, I realized that this game was fixed. It wasn’t winnable. More…