Chapter 2:
The note-
When Sara woke up she looked over Gil, who had moved during the night and ended up spooning her, but she didn't hold it against him since she too woke up to find her arms over his, she turned slowly and kissed his forehead, then leaned over him to take a quick look at the clock. 'Shit it's only 3 am, why cant I go back to sleep?' Since she couldn't go back to sleep, she decided to get up, get dress and pack her bags, it took her about a half an hour to do all of that. 'Maybe now I can go back to sleep, dam no I cant, he is there, too much of a temptation, I'll just go and make some coffee.' She made herself a cup of coffee, and made her way back to the bedroom. She was still really angry at him, she looked at him sleeping and mumbled something under her breath and shook her head. She then made her way to the living room coffee table. She sat down at the table to finish her coffee and after a minute of sitting there she took out a pen and her notepad from her carry on bag, which she had put on the seat next to the one she was sitting at. 'I have to leave, I know that he is going to be very angry about this but I can't stand to be around him, my gut tells me something is wrong and I can't stop thinking that it's right. I hope he understands and respects my wishes.'
2 hours later she had, had 3 cups of coffee and was now done with the note she had been writing. She took a look at the time, it was now 5:30, 'I will just call a cab and go to the airport and read, maybe I could change my flight the soon I get back, the better chance I have to get my head and gut back to where they should be.' She walked back to the bedroom with the note and decided that the nightstand was the best place to put it. She placed it by Gil's alarm clock, she then took off her ring and placed it with the note. She took her phone out of her pocket and called a cab to take her to the airport, after she got off the phone she took another look at the clock it was 5:37, she looked down at Gil and tempted to wake him up. 'I wish I could just get over this, I love him so much, wish I could at least wake him up to say goodbye but I know for a fact that he would stop me and we would end up into another fight, if so it would be worse than last nights I can't do that to him or to myself. Better if I just leave now without saying a word.' She kissed him on the forehead and walked to the front door. She grabbed her bags, keys and turned around and quietly said good bye, then she left.
At 6 am., Gil's alarm clock went off, he sat up on the bed not fully awake and reached down to wake Sara up but he didn't feel her there, and the sheets were cold. 'I remember talking to her last night, I know that wasn't a dream, I remember that she was still angry and wouldn't even say I love you back.' He then quickly sat up and looked for her but didn't see her anywhere around the bedroom, 'I smell coffee maybe she woke up early and couldn't go back to sleep.'
"Sara?"
After a minute he started to worry. 'Calm down Gil, maybe she fell back to sleep on the couch, just get dress, then go and wake her up.' He reached over to turn off the alarm clock and noticed a piece of paper with her wedding ring, he turned off the alarm and took the ring in one hand, and started to read the note in the other.
'Gil,
I love you, I always have, since the first day I met you, and I always will no matter what…'
He looks up from the note and has a worried look upon his face. 'This kind of sounds like the goodbye letter she wrote me when she left Vegas without even saying goodbye. Is she leaving me again? I don't know if I can handle her leaving me again.' He looks back down to the note and forces himself to read some more.
'I'm sorry in advance for not being there when you woke up….' Again he looks up and is relived.'This is starting to sound a whole lot better.' He now felt a little better, so he continues to read the letter.
'But I couldn't stay around you after last night, my anger was just getting worse, with this being said, you can tell that I'm really upset and I don't think I can stay any longer without starting another fight with you, I don't want to fight anymore but my feeling are strong, I trust you, I really do but my gut and everything else in my body is telling me other wise and I don't want to hurt you with my angry words anymore, so I thought it would be best if I just left for the airport now, I will call you when I land in Vegas, please don't call me if I can't talk to you when I land then I do promise that it will be sometime very soon. I'm so sorry but I'm not going to get over this very quickly, that's why I left my wedding ring, you know as well as I do that my anger can get the best of me, and I know for a fact that when we do talk, if I'm still this upset, that I will lose my temper and my ring, the symbol of my promise I made with you, to you, myself and GOD, will be history…' He unclenched the ring and looks at it. A tear escapes his eye and he nods his head in agreement because he know that everything she was saying was absolutely true and he couldn't deny any of it. He wiped the tear away and gathered himself together to read the rest of the note.
'I know without a doubt in my mind that it will be safe with you but I also had the thought that I never wanted to have, that if we couldn't work through this, if we couldn't work this out, that it would be less painful for both of us if you already had the ring in your possession. If and when we do work this out I will need you to send it back to me, if you feel the same way, but just know that if you don't feel like we have work this through or feel like we can't get over this, I will understand. I miss you and as I write this I'm missing you even more, I wish I could have woke you up to say good bye, I hope you understand why I didn't and if you don't I will explain it later when we talk. I hope that you respect my needs and not call me, wait for me to call you when my plane lands, if I don't call you then please give me time and space, I will call you when I have thought this through and when I am ready to talk.
I love you. Talk to you soon.
Love,
Your Wife,
Sara'
He looks around the room trying so hard to hold in all of his emotions, he then sets her ring back down on the nightstand by his alarm clock. He balls up the note and throws it but that didn't help his anger that he was now feeling inside, so he turns and looks at the ring but goes for the clock instead, he rips it out of the wall and throws it across the room, it hits another wall and smashes into a bunch of pieces. He grabs his phone and opens it, got to Sara's number and placed his finger on the talk button. 'She asked me not to call.' he then slams his phone shut and throws it onto the nightstand next to her ring. 'Dam all I want to do is hear her voice, to see her one last time before she goes back, I love her, I need to know that everything is going to be okay between us.' He got up and quickly got dressed, a few minutes later he grabbed her ring put it into his pocket then head towards the door, he grabbed his keys and left to go to the airport.