[Chicken Fried Love 03] • Timber's Line

Timber

In all my life, I don’t think I’ve fit in anywhere.

Sure, Ever and her friends liked me. They did their best to make me feel like I was part of their gang, but I still feel like an outsider.

I have serious insecurity issues; never pretty like the other girls, never as thin as American standards said I should’ve been. To top it all, I never felt love the way others do.

You probably know someone like me, the plump girl at school with a bad reputation. The one who inevitably fell for whatever guy said I was beautiful. Let’s be honest, they were only using me for one thing-- my body.

Now I’m not sure if I’ll ever have the happily-ever-after I thought I deserved.

Dayton

I destroyed my life beyond repair, blew up the pieces so they could never be put back together.

The woman I loved left me, and all I feel is despair, hatred and an enormous amount of anger. My friends have tried to pull me out of it, but I don’t know if I’ll ever be able to.

I was given a second chance as Sal’s errand boy when he hired me, and then I ended up back at the set of Chicken Fried Love as a gopher for the crew.

It was awful at the beginning, and I was awful . . . especially to Timber. I was a jackass, treated her like crap. But after a while things changed. I started seeing she was different than most of the woman I’ve been around.

As time passes I see we’re more alike than I anticipated. My life may be a mess, but in her mind she’s one too.

Could she be my second chance at love, or the reason I never give it a shot again?