Avery My friends all have a plus one. Yet, I still choose to hide mine. We started out innocent. Clandestine meetings. It turned fast. Love overtook us. Loyalty silenced us. We were so close to having it all, but all it took was one rogue ball. Her Secret I fell in love with a Picasso. Her art almost as beautiful as her. She demanded we remain shrouded in secrets. We did that for years, but it was time for the truth. I woke up in a hospital bed, pissed to see a ring on her finger that's not mine.