Chapter 3: The Break Up
After the rather heated reunion with Eric, I really did not have the energy to be able to end it with Alcide but I thought to myself if I was going to get any sleep that I was going to have to do it. Once I pulled up into the quiet driveway of the old Stackhouse farmhouse where I then resided, I could see Alcide lounging as he usually did watching football on the flat screen. Once I was in, there was no bright and romantic welcome as there once were when we first started into the relationship. I shouted to him,
"Alcide, I am home!"
All I got was a low grunt in reply. That really pissed me off and gave me the fire in my blood I needed to get things going with the discussion. I stomped into the living room, stood right in front of the screen and stayed there until Alcide finally spoke,
"Babe, can you move out of the way of the t.v., I am trying to watch the game."
I angrily replied,
"Don't you 'Babe' me Alcide Herveaux! I have had just about enough of you. Would it kill you to actually reply in words to me when I come home for a long shift at Merlotte's or even welcome me home before I say anything."
Alcide and started growling his feral wolf growl and replied,
"Well, you are not the only one that works hard and when he comes home always has to cook his own meals because someone else cannot be bothered."
I was taken aback with shock and quickly replied,
"Alcide, don't bring that up! You know that I am always to tired when I have been working and therefore I need to sleep. Anyway, you do get meals cooked for you when I have time off work which is often 3 or even 4 times a week, jeez stop being lazy! You are only making like 3 meals a week and that ain't exactly hard."
Alcide did not reply to me, he just kept growling and getting all moody. 'You have to get it over and done with otherwise you are never gonna have the guts to tell him.' I then said,
"Alcide, I am fed up with our relationship always having arguments in it and I just don't think I can put up with it anymore. I feel like we need to end it for a break or indefinitely, it depends how things go."
Alcide looked even more pissed off then, he barked back,
"I know why your doing this, it is not because you are fed up with our relationship, it is because Eric is back, isn't it? Yeah, I smelt that sleazy fanger all the way from the road where you stopped to get out and you kissed him."
"Don't bring Eric into this, he has nothing to do with it. This is between me and you!",
I replied. Alcide stopped replying and just stared at me then suddenly he turned his back on me and shouted as he headed out the door,
"I have had enough of this crap, I am outta here, this is over!"
"Good!" I shouted back.