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"And how did you get this number?" Mother bellowed. I knew calling would be a mistake. It was too early. Yes six years wasn't long enough. For a moment there I had convinced myself that it was but it was apparently it wasn't. Why can't she forgive me?! I was young and stupid back then so much as changed. It's not like she never done anything that made her want to step back into time and do it over again, correctly. I don't know what to tell her, how to answer that question. If it could even be called that. To be her little boy again with everything together nice and wonderful is all I want. But it's too late.
"Ay, or drinking, fencing, quarreling, drabbing you may go so far." I finally tell her. If she wanted to be an obxitious bitch I might as well help her out. I knew she wants to kill me even after all these years. I hear her make a snickering sound in her voice. I can almost read her thoughts; nothing is changed still annoying as ever. Nearly forgot the reason why I picked up the phone in the first place. Even though she hated me I still felt she should know about me and the love of my life.
But Lee saw beyond the words, the bravado, looked briefly at the sunken eyes, the thin face. It's strange I swear that dog understands things on higher level then should be possible. Lee knows me inside and out better then anyone has ever before. He knows my fears, the truth, what makes me happy and why I cry at night. I feel as if I can understand him as well. Fiona would do back flips if she knew I thought I had a physic connection with my dog. Careful not to drop phone even though neither of us are speaking I lean over and gently pat his head.
"Haply he is the second time come to them, for they say an old man is twice a child." Mother finally speaks to me and unfortually I have no idea what it means. Is she talking about me? Am I the old man? Yes I have grown after all it has been six years but not enough to be called an old man. Maybe she's trying to scare me into hanging up. I might as well the conversation was dead before the phone was even picked up. Without saying good-bye or anything else I put the phone down on the cradle and see my love staring at me from the far end of the room. I didn't know she was home.
"I made a clean, healthy break and forged my own life," Jill says. Oh no. That doe not sound good at all. I know her and me have had our troubles but we can work them out! So why is she acting as if she's two seconds away from walking away from and Lee? It was me and her forever it just had to be! First I lost my friends, family, nearly a reason to keep on going on, but Jill helped me rise above the crap. Now that I'm better does she think her saintly duty is over with? Doesn't she know I need her? If she wants to leave I have no power or reasons strong enough to stop her. So I watch her stare into my eyes and quietly leave the house. Lee lets out a bark while I feel a tear start to fall.
