TheDarkestShinobi: This is not what I had in mind but I liked it. Spam mail causes a little trouble for Howard and Bernie,
Chapter 4: "I would have texted you sooner but cabs at three a.m."
Howard really can't see straight. He knows in his gut that he shouldn't have done this. He had gotten used to him and Bernie acting a certain way, he depended on it. Still, she had never been jealous of other women because he had given it all up for her. Not that there was much to give up. Not that she wasn't worth everything ten times over.
He was a one woman kind of guy now, forever. He had told her so. He couldn't have imagined how good his life would get from the moment that he met her. He couldn't have imagined how terrible it would be when she left him, because she is probably going to leave him. She's always been too good for him.
He didn't even cheat on her. He doesn't know who the woman was or why she was there, splayed out naked in the pictures that came in the mail. He had thought it was a joke until she screamed at him. She accused him of terrible things, said things he hopes she didn't mean and told him to get the hell out. He didn't know what to say or do so he left.
He fumbles with his phone, there is nothing to say. He knows she assumed his guilt the moment he left. He couldn't take her looking at him like that, of accusing him of that. Even in his most sleezy of days he wasn't a cheater.
Where are the magic words that fix everything?
How does he make the truth ring?
"We're here." The voice from the front of the cab echoes and he reaches into his wallet.
"What's the damage?"
He swears it is Bernadette that looks back at him telling him forever. He throws two twenties at her before getting out of the cab and swaying on his feet.
I didn't cheat on yu
I'm sory I ran way
Cant take tu liikong at me like that
I would have texted sooner but cabs at 3am
Pleade don't leave me
"Howwie?" he hears her call him and looks up from his phone to see her at the door. She is running towards him and he can't help but let the tears fall.
"I've never cheated. I never will. You're my everything!" he hugs her back and she pulls away.
"You're cold as death? How long have you been out here?!" he can see the sleep is still in her eyes. He realizes she's in his shirt. He sees the red of her eyes and knows she's been crying too.
"I don't know. I love you." She tugs him forward and towards the house. The entire time he talks about his love for her. She can't possibly know that she's his everything.
She does.
She helps him in and gets water into his system. She listens to him babble and cries herself. It didn't take her too long to figure out it was spam mail, but he way he looked at her made her think he was cheating. He was a deer in headlights; he looked like his world was ending.
"We're not getting a divorce." She soothes as he grabs onto her like he'll never let go again. She grabs him in the same way.
She'll never let go.
TDS: thoughts?