MISTAKES
Kurt was still at her apartment. He did not know what to do right now. He sat down on the couch and looked around. Where could she be? He had already tried to call her five times and tried it another two times. But he did not reach her. She just didn't want to talk with him right now. And he could understand her indeed.
As his phone started vibrating immediately he took the incoming call without having a look at his phone.
„Diane?", he asked before anyone could say something.
„No, Kurt, it's me – Holly."
Kurt sighed. „Holly, why are you calling?", he asked her.
„Kurt, I still think we have to talk some time", she told him.
Another deep sigh before he said: „Maybe you are right. But not now. I have to find Diane first, I have to go and try to explain her."
„You want to explain her that you cheated on her?", Holly asked.
Kurt remained silent. Holly continued: „Kurt, she is hurt. She doesn't want to see you now. And she won't be willing to see you for at least a few days if not days."
„Sounds like you are totally understanding her, what?"
„Kurt, what we did… You can't tell be that you still love her as you did the day you married her. As you were with me I always thought your marriage was… damaged."
„We have not been together very often", he said in defense.
„I think it was often enough."
Again: Kurt had to sigh. „Holly, I will call you in a few days. But for now… I have other things to manage", he said. She therefore told him she'd understand (but he wasn't very sure about…). He hand up and thought about the things that had happened. How could he even do this to her?
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It had happened at a conference. He hadn't seen Holly for a long time. They hugged each other as they saw each other being there.
„Kurt! It's great to see you!", she told him with a wide smile.
„Same to you", he said in return.
They had visited several lectures together and in the evening they were sitting down at the hotel bar together. They had a lot to talk about. Holly had been one of his first students – and now she was one oft he most successful ballistic experts herself. Kurt felt kind of proud. At all after she had told him that she wouldn't have become so successful without him. She told him that she had learned a lot of him and had always admired him. She had told him about recent cases and new technology she was working with. Kurt enjoyed their conversation very much. He had some friends he used to see sometimes and also at the seminar he was talking about ballistics – but it was something else with Holly. She was an expert on the same level ash im – just better in the new methods.
As they sat there, had a drink and where chatting, Kurt saw how other men where looking at Holly. He had a closer look himself and he had to recognize that she was da*n hot. Her long blonde hair next to her beautiful face with her big eyes and her full lips. Her soft skin as she was touching his arm during speaking. Her well defined figure. Her long legs in that black skirt…
Kurt was shocked by his own thoughts. How could he even be thinking like this about Holly? He was a married man – and she was a young girl for him – one of his former students! He tried to stop these thought – but they kept coming back. He tried not to – but he caught himself by staring at her breats in this tight blouse…
A moan excaped his moth as – by incident – Holly touched his tigh. She looked at him in suprise and he stared at the glas in front of him in a kind of shame.
„Hey, everything alright, Kurt?", she asked him and took her hand to his arm.
„Of course", he told her, smiling at her as if nothing was happening.
As the hours passed and they were still chatting, a young waitress come to their table asking them to leave soon. They did so after he had payed for their drinks. They agreed to continue their discussion about old versus new methods in ballistics upstairs in her room.
As Kurt thought about it now, he knew that this had been a hugh mistake. Until then nothing had happened. But after they had entered this room, things had changed.