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“Did you tell her that?”
I shook my head. “Nope.”
“Do you think that might be the answer to your problems?” he pressed.
“I don’t know,” I said. “I have a feeling the ship has sailed. She’s a woman that can get anyone. Why would she keep coming back to me when I’ve done nothing but make her life hell?”
“Because she loves you, too,” he said. “Idiot.”
“I thought that might be a possibility, but I’m not so sure about that,” I said. “I mean, if she loved me even a little, wouldn’t she want to hear me out? Wouldn’t she tell me she was pissed or jealous? Wouldn’t she want to believe I was innocent?”
“All good questions, but I can’t answer any of them,” he said. “Love is a tricky thing. I think in this case you could answer your own questions.”
“What does that mean?” I sighed. “I don’t have the bandwidth to try and read between the lines or any of that shit.”
“It means, put yourself—”
“Don’t say it,” I said and held up a hand.
“You have to look at it from her point of view,” he said. “You guys have one of the weirdest relationships I’ve ever witnessed. I don’t think anyone on the outside of it can help you guys. This is a new one. If you want her, you have to figure out how to fix it.”
“I tried,” I said. “I tried to fix it. She wants nothing to do with me.”
He snorted. “Pussy.”
“What?”
“I can’t believe you’re just giving up. I have heard you bellyache about this woman for close to a decade. You get this close and then you just give up? Come on, that’s not how you roll. You don’t just lay down and let shit happen. If you don’t fight for her, you never actually cared about her.”
“That’s not true,” I argued.
“You do care about her?” he said.
“Yes.”
“Then why in the hell are you sitting here?”
It hit me. He was right. This was stupid. I was acting like a child that got told no. I wasn’t a child and I damn sure wasn’t a pussy. She had to listen to me.
If she chose to throw all this away because of a stupid photo, then it was never going to work. I couldn’t be with someone that was going to give me the silent treatment every time a woman looked sideways at me. I didn’t know shit about relationships, but I knew trust was important. I had witnessed my parents’ relationship. They had a healthy, loving, and, most importantly, trusting relationship.
“Okay,” I said.
“Okay?”
“I’m going to her place,” I said. “She’s going to fucking listen to me. If she doesn’t want to see me again, she’s going to have to tell me. She doesn’t just get to leave me hanging.”
“Good man,” he said and raised his glass. “Good luck.”
I found her address and drove over to her apartment. I knocked on the door and waited. Macy answered the door. The first thing I noticed was the puffy eyes. She’d been crying. That tore at my heart. I knew I was the cause of those tears, even though it was all a big misunderstanding.
She started to close the door. I put my foot out and stopped it. “Hear me out,” I said.
“I have nothing to say to you,” she said.
“I understand,” I said. “I’m just asking you to hear me. Really hear me.”
She said nothing. The only change was she was looking at me. That was a step in the right direction.
