Jen shows up on my doorstep, clearly upset, deeply sad,
about something. She has a baby with
her, a little girl. I welcome her and we
talk, begin catching up. Then I see she
is unable to talk because she is so upset so I tell her to go ahead and take a
nap. When she wakes up I tell her not to
tell me anything, that I understand sometimes it’s too painful to put things
into words. I ask her if there was
cheating involved and she nods. I ask if
it was Patrick, pause a moment when I see she doesn’t respond but starts crying
more, and then I ask if she was the one who cheated. She looks at me and I can see the pain as she
begins to shatter. She haltingly tells
me there was a guy and she didn’t mean it, but it happened. I tell her it’s okay, that she will be
okay. She leaves the room to go to the
bathroom and, while she’s there, her phone rings. The name shown is “Jonathan” and I assume it’s
“the guy” and wonder how something as perfect as what Jen and Patrick had
could go so wrong?
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