When You Can't Leave Well Enough Alone, Straight Girls Gave Guard Dogs

I met her at work. My boss told me to go easy on her. I tended to be demanding, the clock never stopped clicking. One evening after work I saw him talking to her in the parking lot, when they said goodbye he kissed her.

I watched her, trying to figure out who she was. She was definitely sleeping with him. He ran interference for her. Kept me on a leash when it came to her. I became 'unbalanced' about her, why would she sleep with him.

I went to her apartment one Sunday, dropped in on her. It was a nice apartment, big and airy, in a nice part of town. Way above her pay grade, until I remembered, he paid the bills for her. She was circumspect about him, how she met him, how she got involved with him.

My feelings were no longer under control. I had to know. Why did she kiss him. Why did she let him in bed with her. I wasn't jealous, obsessed maybe, but not jealous. She invited me to lunch, she paid. She wasn't interested. Find another girl to get obsessed over. Or she was going to tell her boyfriend.

I was given the opportunity to resign, with severance. Leave her alone, walk away, or?

I followed her, not very well because he came up on me. Leave her alone, she belonged to him.

But, you can't leave well enough alone. He took it out on me. If I wanted it that bad, all I needed to do was ask him. Because she was his. I didn't go looking for him, but that's who was at the end of the rainbow.