She was at home, sitting on the couch watching TV in her pajamas when John slid the key into the lock on the hotel room door and walked in. "Your home." She smiles, hating herself inside. He sets the pizza box and the plastic bag in his hand on the table. "I got pepperoni pizza, a Pepsi, Ben and Jerry's ice cream and a John Wayne movie." He says. "Is that ok?" "I love John Wayne which movie did you get?" she asks. "McClintock." "One of my favorites." She says taking the DVD from him to go put it in the player. "Don't start it yet I want to go change clothes first." He says.
He comes back dressed in a pair of blue jeans and hands her a glass of soda. "I had to bribe the guy at the door to let me sneak the pizza up here they don't think your supposed to eat anything but they're crappy room service food." He says setting the pizza box on the foot of the bed before getting in himself. He takes the remote and turns the movie on before opening the pizza box and grabbing a slice. "So how was the dinner?" she asked taking a piece herself. "Boring." He replies. "I thought about you the whole time wondering if you were ok." She smiles. "Aww you didn't have to worry about me I was just fine sitting here watching Sex in the City."
They set there for the longest time watching the movie and munching on pizza. "Ready for ice cream?" he asks. "Yea sure." "New York Super Fudge Chunk. Sounds good right?" he asks. "You only bought it cause you like the name I bet." She teases. "No it sounded good and I heard this Ben and Jerry's is the best." He replies. "Yea..right…I know better John." She laughs. "Ok so the New York part swayed me some." He laughs giving her a spoon then digging in himself. "I had to go to s ice cream shop just to get this." He laughs.
As much as she hates to, she inches a little closer to him and leans against his side. He moves his arm around her and she settles against him as they share the ice cream and watch the movie. He's not all that bad of a guy once you get to know him…but she was just not in love with him. And she doesn't know if he 'loves' her but she does know he likes her at least and there's no way he'd give up marrying her and still be on good terms. Mark's way is the only way they both could see to get out of this.
John laughs at a part of the movie and she can feel his laughter well up from within his chest from where she had her head laid against his shoulder. She laughs too, pushing her thoughts aside for later.