Chapter 2-"The Silence between"
I approached the couch and stayed there staring at him. He suddenly woke up. He looked at me worried by the expression on my face, but before asking anything, he kissed me.
"Hi…"he said, still half asleep.
"Hi…"I answered, not knowing what to say.
"What's wrong?" he asked as gently as he could.
"Nothing" I didn't want to worry him about the scene at the shop.
"You know you can trust me," he said brushing his lips through my neck. But I didn't know anymore.
His hands had started doing their magic on my back. It was unbearable.
"Please Tom, stop!" I said and backed away abruptly "Sarah is upstairs…"
"It's not because of Sarah, is it?" he asked
I thought about it for some time, maybe I didn't want to.
"No…" I answered shyly
"Then what is the problem?" his voice was rough, not gentle…
"I found…or he found me. Anyway, the guy from the diner… the one with the strange eye"
"Where?" he asked with a worried look.
"At the shop"
"Did she saw him?" he asked me referring to Sarah.
"I don't know but she didn't understand what was happening"
"That's good…"
We were silent for a while. Our marriage was becoming VERY silent, in every sense of the word.
"And you. Are you ok?" he asked gently, again.
"Since when do you care?"
"Since the day you entered my life" his lips inches away from mine.
He got closer and closer. Closer than these last days. We hadn't touched each other or make love like we used to do, since this all crap started.
He started kissing me, and his tongue was making its way into my mouth when I stopped him.
"Tom… stop…we don't have time for this" I managed to say between kisses.
"Shh…" he said while trying to lean over me.
"STOP!" I cried out, very upset, and got up.
"Why? Are you trying to avoid me?"
May be I am, but it's not the point, so I said "Don't you see? Our life is a mess…and I don't really want to mess up with you right here, right now"
He was mad at me, but said nothing because we heard a car parking outside our house.