Man & Wife

Man & Wife

"Well thanks. That makes me feel special." Brenda couldn't keep the sarcasm from her voice.

"I didn't mean it like that. I just meant that I shouldn't have married you when I was still grieving for Toni." Dylan's voice cracked.

"Maybe, I was hurt at the time that you'd married anyone else at all. I guess I always thought we'd end up together."

"In another life, in another place we could have been wonderful together Brenda Walsh."

"Can I ask you something?"

"You can always ask me anything." Dylan felt more relaxed

"Why did you just leave?" Brenda could still feel the pain of arriving home one day to find that Dylan had left. She'd known he was gone the moment she'd put her key in the lock, she hadn't been able to sense him, it was like part of her was missing. His clothes were missing from their wardrobe, his toiletries were gone from their bathroom. A note had been on her pillow, the simple words had hurt her more than anything she'd ever felt in her life.

Bren, I'm sorry, I can't do this anymore. Always Dylan.

"I was dragging you down I never wanted to do that. You were the one person I've never wanted to hurt and I seem to keep on doing it. I guess by leaving I felt I was giving you the chance to become the person I knew you could be." Dylan looked at Brenda's beautiful, trusting face. "Since I've been clean I've gone over and over everything I did to you and I've never been able to talk to anyone about it. My friends have a low enough opinion of me without me confirming all their worst suspicions."

"Have you told Kelly?" Brenda couldn't believe that there was a part of Dylan's history that only she was part of.

"No. She loves me for who I am now, I'm not sure she could cope with who I was then, it doesn't fit with her idea of a husband."

"It wasn't exactly mine either." Brenda smiled in spite of the swell of emotions that were threatening to drown her. She hadn't thought about her brief marriage to Dylan for a long time, it had been legally over for two years but for her it had ended long before the ink was on the paper.