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“Then maybe we shouldn’t,” she snapped.
I stared at her in horror. “Shouldn’t what?”
“Make a life together.”
I stood there, slightly swaying on my feet.
If her comment about not trusting anybody had been a punch to the gut, this was a knife to my heart.
I didn’t say anything for what seemed like an eternity. Neither did she.
Finally, I spoke. “Look… can we not do this right now? Can we just have a nice day together?”
“What’s one day matter?” she asked coldly. “You live here now.”
“I’ve got to go out of town tomorrow. I might be gone awhile.”
Her eyes opened wide in surprise. “How long?”
“I don’t know. Maybe three weeks.”
“Three WEEKS?!”
“I don’t know. It might be one, it might be two.”
“Where are you going?”
“I can’t tell you that.”
“And I’ll bet you can’t tell me anything else, either,” she said angrily, then shook her head in disgust. “You want to ‘build a life together,’ but you won’t tell me anything about this other life you have.”
“I’m just doing what you’ve been doing all along,” I shot back. “What’s good for the goose is good for the gander, right?”
“Whatever,” she said contemptuously.
We stood there in awkward silence.
I looked past her towards the spot where I had told her I loved her…
And where I’d planned to propose.
It was only 400 feet away…
But it might as well have been 4000 miles.
Everything was ruined.
“…let’s just go back to the hotel,” I said wearily.
“We’re here,” she snapped. “We might as well – ”
“Let’s just go back to the fucking hotel, please,” I snarled.
She glared at me hatefully, then walked beside me in silence as I called an Uber.
I didn’t think it was possible, but things got worse when we reached the hotel.
“I’m going to go home,” she said coldly.
