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Idrive around, looking for a place to go to sort through my feelings.Why won’t Amber talk to me? I don’t understand what’s going on with her. It’s like she’s going back when we need to be moving forward. But my asking gets us nowhere.
After some thinking, I decide to go to my friend Cody’s house. He’s close by, and maybe saying everything out loud and sorting through my feelings with someone else will help it all make sense.
I drive to his house, and as I pull into the driveway, I see him open the front door. I climb out and wander over to him, feeling numb.
“Well, long time no see, my friend!” he says, hugging me and pulling me inside. We sit in his living room, and I look around at all the same decorations hanging from the last ten years.
“Nothing’s changed,” I say, trying to muster up a laugh.
“No, not with me,” he says. “But your life sure has! I see you’ve got yourself a wife.”
The word wife hits me the worst way possible, and I stare at the floor, not saying a word.
“Uh oh. I’m sorry, dude. Is something going on there?”
I take a few hours to go into detail, telling him everything so that he can help me work out a proper solution. It feels good to finally get the truth off my chest and say my feelings for her out loud.
He talks with me, telling me his opinion on things. It doesn’t necessarily seem reliable since he’s still a bachelor, but I appreciate his input nonetheless. I notice how late it is and start getting ready to leave when he stops me.
“Why don’t you just stay here tonight?” he asks.
“I appreciate that. I do. But I should get home,” I say, missing Amber already.
He gets up and grabs a blanket. “Dude, it sounds like she needs space. Why don’t you sleep it off on my sofa and go have some hot makeup sex in the morning, okay?” He laughs.
I agree, thinking maybe some time away from me will help her sort out her feelings. She doesn’t seem to be eager to have me around, so perhaps he has a valid point.
I don’t remember falling asleep, but I’m waking to the sounds of the buzzing traffic outside Cody’s window. He’s already left for work, so I grab my keys and go home excitedly.
My heart pounds as I pull into the driveway, ready to settle everything and get back to normal. I walk in the door and head straight for the bedroom. I’m disappointed to find she’s already out of bed, but I decide to try the bathroom.
After several minutes of searching and calling her name, she’s nowhere to be found. I try calling her phone. It’s shut off, sending me to voicemail.
Where the hell is she? How didn’t I notice her car missing from the driveway?
In a panic, I drive to my grandfather’s house. I speed into the driveway and fly in his front door, stopping only when I enter the living room and see my family gathering together, looking serious.
“Hey guys,” I say, capturing their attention. But, to my surprise, instead of happy faces greeting me, it’s the screaming voice of my grandfather.
“Well, it’s about time you showed up!” he yells. “How could you turn your back on your wife like this?”
My expression shifts to confusion. “What the hell are you talking about? Who told you that?” I ask, angered by his outburst.
My father jumps in now, shoving an envelope toward me. “These are your divorce papers. Amber came by this morning to tell us what happened between the two of you and then handed me these for you to sign!”
I rip open the envelope and see her name signed neatly at the bottom.
“Damn it… I’m too late…”
“Well, yeah, you’re too late! You can’t expect to treat a woman that way and then have her wait around forever, do you? I mean, I think it was quite brave of her to come here on her own as she did. She obviously wasn’t getting anywhere with you,” my grandfather complains.
“There are two sides to every story. Do you care to hear my side of things? Or are you just going to keep yelling at me?” I ask. He gestures toward the sofa, and I sit beside my father and Debra.
“Look, I thought things were going great until one day, she just shifted. She’s miserable with me. Grandfather, we aren’t even married for real,” I admit. “It was just a way to get my inheritance.”
I regret the statement as soon as it leaves my lips. But my grandfather starts chuckling.
“You don’t think I knew it wasn’t real in the beginning? But it obviously is now.”
