"It is absolutely okay with me if you need to keep some secrets. I've been thinking about this and I decided that a best friend is someone who, when they don't understand, they still understand."
― Nancy Werlin, Impossible
"It took you five minutes longer than usual to call me."
My heart was racing as I quickly checked to see that the number she was calling from was available for me to save. It was not.
"Your an asshole using numbers to get me to call you."
"I missed you Michonne."
"I am hanging up now."
The click had my heart pounding as I waited with my phone still in my hands. I waited five minutes and just like I knew she would, my phone rang.
"I really hate you right now, just as intensely as I hated you at the Koban station."
"Hate is a strong word, Michonne."
"That is how strongly I feel."
"You are describing the wrong word to how you feel or felt, Michonne."
"I am not. I am really annoyed right now. I am hanging up now."
The click was deafening. I waited five minutes and just like I knew she would, my phone rang, and it was Michonne again.
"I felt so much for you Rick. I would have done anything for you because I wanted to be with you. I would have not left you at the Koban Station. I would have chosen you. You didn't choose me, and I refuse to be driven crazy with why you didn't."
"Michonne, we talked about it the day before. We agreed."
"There were extenuating circumstances that I had to beat your wife's ass and her friends should have caused a different scenario to happen, Rick. There was a different scenario, and because you left me after knowing I told my husband, I can't forgive you. I can't. I am hanging up now."
I waited five minutes and just like I knew my phone rang and I didn't give her time to speak. I put it all on the line from my lips to her ear.
"I am still fucking in love with you Michonne. I am. I am sorry. I am very sorry, Michonne. I need you in my life, and if I had a fucking do over, I would have chosen you if I knew I would have to endure this amount of time without you. I have no idea why I didn't leave Lori's crazy ass right there at the Koban for the simple fact she tried to hurt the woman I loved, still love. I love you as I have never ever loved anyone in my entire life. If I knew you were out there, I would have never fucked around and married someone like Lori if I knew you existed out there waiting for me. You mean so fucking much to me, and I promise you with my last breath I would never ever hurt you like that...Ever. Tell me where you are, Michonne so I can see you, hold you, kiss you, make love to you. Please Michonne, tell me where you are?"
"Ummm, this is your ex-wife Lori. I was going to bring the kids by you, but I have changed my mind, motherfucker."
"Fuck. You just listened to all that and didn't stop me, Lori?"
"You are a fucking idiot. Michonne is a fucking idiot. You don't make smart decisions, and you are a bonafide asshole."
"Says a lot about you, Lori, if you married me. You aren't the brightest fucking light bulb."
"I fucking married you because I loved you and I thought you loved me. You are a liar, and she's a fool because once a cheater always a cheater."
"If that is the case then what the fuck are you doing with Shane?"
"Shane and I are none of your business Rick."
"Well ask Shane what was he doing with Karen behind the Honky Tonk Tavern last night. You have first-hand experience with a cheater you should be able to gauge by his response. Nothing fucking changed with Shane. The diagnosis is still the fucking same."
"You are just trying to make me doubt him."
"Who you shouldn't doubt is me when it comes to me coming for my kids. Don't doubt just because you aren't bringing my kids to me that I won't be there in 10 minutes to pick them up."