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“Where have you been!?”
Amber looked over at me, a bit bewildered, and I immediately wished that I had said that better. When we got back and she wasn’t here, I thought that she had left. Her things were still in the pool house, so it just meant that she was gone. Of course, the first place I thought of was with her boyfriend, Tommy. I didn’t know anything about the guy, just that he was from her old life that she never talked about. Was she with him?
“Excuse me?”
“Where were you, Amber? We thought you would be here, to see Alice and check on her, but you were gone.”
“You said that you were taking the day off. I didn’t think I had to be here.”
“Maybe I was hoping that you would want to be here.”
I was mad, but not at her, not really. I was mad that I had missed my chance and Amber had moved on. We had done some things, made some promises, but she was his more than she was mine, and I hated that fact so much that it bothered me.
“You know that I do, but I had some things to take care of. This isn’t supposed to be an around the clock job, Frank. You said that I would get time off.”
It was all going bad, and I tried to turn it around. I was fumbling though, just saying something else to piss her off.
“Is Alice still up? I would like to see her, but I figured that she would be resting.”
“No, she took a nap, tired from all of the driving home. I didn’t mean to yell; I’ve just been worried.”
She scoffed. “What are you worried about exactly?”
“Just that you were okay.”
“Was it that or were you worried that I was with someone else?”
That struck the nail on the head, and I sighed loudly. That was what all of it was about and I hated that she could see through me so easily. I wanted to pretend like things weren’t so transparent, but I guess that was pie-in-the-sky thinking.
“Were you?”
“Yes.”
Her answer made me freeze and turn cold inside. Why was she with him? Wasn’t she interested in what we had started before? I knew that I sure the hell was. What changed?
“So, you were with Tommy today?”
“Not in the way that you are implying, but yes, I was with him.”
I didn’t know what to say and she waited, practically tapping her toes, her arms folding in front of her.
“I didn’t mean for all of this to come out like that.”
“Then why are you being this way?”
“I hate the idea of you with someone else.”
“I broke up with him, that’s what I went to see him for. It isn’t right to do it over the phone or something. It just felt wrong, so I figured that I at least had to meet with him in person. I did and we broke up.”
It wasn’t what I wanted to hear, but then again, it was way better. She was breaking up with the guy, just like I said I wanted her to and now I wasn’t sure how to react. I felt a bit off and I knew I had put my foot in my mouth. I had just been so angry, thinking about her with another. It had made me say things.
“Oh.”
“Uh huh. Is that all you have to say?”
“I’m sorry.”
“Better.”
