The BACHELORETTE Project (The Project: LESLEE Series) (40 page)

After the kiss, we just stare at each other and laugh. “So Eric,” I start as we walk down the steps towards the limousine, “what do we do now?”

He scratches his head for a second. “I don’t know about you,” he says, “but I’m extremely late for a wedding reception.”

I nod my head. “Sounds like a plan,” I reply as he opens the limousine door for me. I climb into the vehicle with him, and we both sit and stare at each other. I begin to giggle as he puts his arm around me.
Finally, FINALLY this Cinderella has successfully found her Prince Charming.
BACHELORETTE
experiment status: COMPLETE!

Six Months Later

So, I know that the whole entire world is curious to know how the characters of my little fairytale and I ended up. Well, I can safely say that the pieces of this crazy puzzle have finally fit into place from a very karma-like standpoint. I tried calling Victor, my ex-fiancé, just to see if the news of him being homeless and a sex addict were true. Turns out that the news doesn’t lie all the time. After it surfaced that he was a psychotic nymphomaniac, his parents took conservership over him and anything that was left in his bank account, which wasn’t much. They used the money that he had left over and sent him to a rehabilitation center in Connecticut. If there’s one thing that cures sexual addiction, it’s the open air and seclusion of Connecticut. At least that’s what I’ve heard. Anyway, Victor apologized to me, and then confessed to sleeping with over one hundred women while we were together. All I have to say to that is thank God for Trojan condoms and my quarterly visits to my gynecologist. A word of advice to the ladies out there:
love your vagina
! Your boyfriend or husband could very well turn out to be a Victor, and then you’ll be officially screwed.

Onto Annie and Xavier. I heard it through the grapevine that they are still togeth
er, and also that
she’s pregnant. I also heard that they fight consistently and that the baby may not even be his. She’ll appear on
The Maury Povich Show
very soon in the future—well that’s my prediction anyway. Karma, maybe?

Then of course there’s
Mike, Eric’s friend. You know, the one who was sleeping with Shrek. Well, I’m happy to report that Mike has finally settled down with this grenade of a woman and has popped the question to her. Yes, Shrek and Mike are getting married. Love has no boundaries, even when your children are the evil of the Earth. Sigh.

My wonderful friends Karen and Russ are doing very well. Karen has finally graduated from UPenn with a doctorate in English Literature, and Russ is still at the same job with Carter. The happy couple took a month off to travel to England and Ireland, and she still refuses to talk about having children in the future, but she’s agreed to adopt a dog … the dog that I stole from Mark’s house (remember him? The Superman Fetish Freak).

Carter is still working like crazy. I offered him my services in matchmaking, and at first he declined, but then finally gave in. I hooked him up with one of my clients named Tracy, a beautician from Springfield, and they’ve been dating for three months now. I, of course, wish them the best of luck.

Last but not least, there’s Eric and me. Let me be the first to tell you how incredibly happy we are with each other. We’ve been dating for six months and it’s magical. His Internet business has been a thriving asset for the Philadelphia Tri-State area and for the rest of the country. Life for him has been great. Life with him has been even better. We’ve been completely content with dating each other and not moving too fast. We don’t live together just yet, but we’re discussing it slowly but surely, no rush. We are very much in love with each other, and we are very happy with that.

As far as my matchmaking business, well, it’s been great. I’m the number one matchmaker in Philadelphia finding love for those who almost stopped believing in love. If anyone asks me about my life and love, I tell them the truth. Life is just life, but it’s a little more interesting when love is involved. I’m blessed to have love in my life, and I’m happy to have one of the most interesting yet wonderful lives of all.

About the Author

Tami Anthony is an author, a playwright, and the beautiful mind behind
Pink Butterfly Publications,
a pub
lishing company devoted to female
-driven literature. She is a graduate of Rutgers University with a Bachelor’s in English Literature and Theatre Arts. Tami presently resides outside of Philadelphia with her son and is currently working on her second novel and future plays.

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