Clark watched his father as he worked out in the barn. Something was going on with his parents and even though his father kept telling him everything was fine, Clark knew better. He remembered how happy his father was and how he would always be smiling while working on the farm. Now all he did was work on the farm and not bothering with anyone. And his mother? He hadn't seen his mother in the longest time. She was hardly home now and Clark was wondering just what happened between his parents that made them act differently.
Jonathan came in after a few hours of working on the farm. Jonathan looked different, not the same father he remembered always being at home.
"Hey dad, is everything alright?"
"Yes son, things are fine. Why do you ask?"
"Well just that, things has seemed different. You don't seem yourself and mom's hardly home now…"
"Clark I don't want you to worry. Your mom is just busy with her new job that's all."
"Dad you don't think that mom and Lionel are…."
"Clark no not at all. Look why don't you go to your room and do your homework. I'll be fine."
Clark agreed and went up to his room. Jonathan hated lying to Clark but he was doing it to protect him as best as he could. Jonathan called up the office and got no answer and when he called Martha's cell phone, all he got was her voicemail. "What's going on with us Martha" he thought to himself. It wasn't like her to ignore one of his phone calls…yet she was.
iAnd we wake up in the breakdown/i
Jonathan fell asleep on the couch and woke up when he heard the front door open. He looked at the clock and saw that it was almost 2am and Martha was just now coming home.
"Jonathan….what are you doing up so late?"
"You can say I was waiting up for you, but I fell asleep. Where were you all this time?"
"Problems at the office, so I had to stay late to fix things up."
"I called the office earlier, no one picked up," Jonathan said.
"That must've been when the phones shut off….sorry about that."
"How about when I called your cell phone, you didn't answer."
"Jonathan I said I was busy, sorry I didn't answer my phone."
Jonathan wasn't buying any of it. He felt with each lie he was losing Martha. "Or have you been too busy with Lionel." He couldn't believe what he just said but at the same time he meant it.
"Jonathan you don't honestly think I'm cheating do you?"
"Well you're hardly here and you're with him more than me. What else am I supposed to think?"
"I can't believe you think I would do that. Don't you trust me?"
"Honestly Martha, I don't trust either of you."
iI thought I lost you somewhere/i
With that Jonathan went upstairs to the bedroom and laid in bed. He didn't trust Martha anymore. He felt like he was losing Martha and that his whole world was crashing in. He decided that tomorrow he would take a drive by the office and she just how close Martha and Lionel had become.