Intimate Deception

The rain was coming down hard, and traffic was bumper to bumper. It was close to midnight, and Penny was on the road for almost two hours. She never liked driving in the rain and would have premonitions of skidding off the wet road and ending up in a ditch, all alone for weeks. When checking the weather earlier that evening, there was no mention or sign of rain. It was as though the sky had just burst into tears without any forewarning.

She was on her way home from a dinner date with her now ex-boyfriend, who abruptly ended their two-year relationship. His excuse was that she was moving too fast, and he was not ready to take their relationship to the next level. His rationale for breaking up was a complete surprise to her, because she never placed any demands on him. If he wanted to see other women, that was fine with her. It was almost two in the morning when she got to her residence. By then, the rain had stopped. She parked her car into the building's underground garage, got on the elevator and went straight to her apartment.

Ever since she was a little girl, Penny wanted to work in the area of medicine. Just about everyone in her family was on some type of medication for various health problems. The idea of taking a pill to help alleviate pain, cure or manage a disease fascinated her, so she decided to go into pharmacy. Dispensing drugs and providing drug-related information to consumers was her aspiration. She attended a well-known college in New York State, received her Bachelor's Degree in Pharmacy and got a job as a pharmacist assistant at a neighborhood drug store. A year later, she took and passed the state exam to become a licensed pharmacist. Several months later, she would be head pharmacist at a major pharmacy chain in New York City.