Kissing Moon

"I just needed to get away from all of the craziness," Julie said as she walked towards me on the beach. I hid the beer bottle behind my back and plastered a smile on my face, it wouldn't do me any good for her to go back and tell her sister, my wife, that I was drinking. "Your wife is crazy. She is going on and on about how you are cheating on her...."

"I haven't cheated on her. There's no denying that I've been tempted to but so far, I've resisted temptation." It felt odd to me that I was confessing that I had been tempted to sleep around on my wife. Especially to the woman whom I was tempted by. "I'm a man of Christ but sometimes, I wonder what it would be like if I had married someone else."

"We all feel frustrated by our spouses sometimes, but that is no reason to go astray. We need to talk with them about what upsets us, and follow the Lord's plan." I closed my eyes, trying to fight the urge to bring her body close to mine. "Look at the majestic moon he gave us to enjoy with our family. He wants us to be together and praise in his name."

Without thinking, I grabbed her and brought her close to me. Our bodies pressed together, she felt like a feather in my arms. A voice in the back of my kept saying that this is the way it should have been. Her eyes opened wide, I wasn't sure if she was surprised or afraid. Maybe it was both. I was surprised by what I was doing and afraid that there would be no way for me to stop.

Our lips met. Her tongue probed into my mouth, she wrapped her arms around my neck and pressed herself closer to me. For one fleeting moment I felt as if this was how God had intended things to be. Before I married Caren, I had been trying to court Julie but she apparently wanted nothing to do with me. All of that left my mind as soon as it entered it, she was in my arms and that was all that mattered.

"Oh my goodness," Julie said breathlessly as she pulled away from me. We were both frozen in our spots, our eyes locked with one another. My whole body was heated from the kiss, I wanted more. When I looked down I noticed that my beer had fallen and spilled. "What we did was wrong. You're married to my sister. I'm married. We can never do that again."
"Why not? No one ever has to know." The look of shock on her face was enough to tell me that this affair would be short lived. It would be only one kiss, and when Caren found out about it, I would have no connection to the woman I really loved.

"Andrew, you know why this can't happen. It's wrong. We pledged to be with our spouses for better and worse, and we pledged our fidelity."

"Which we already broke."

"Julie, dear can you entertain your boring husband!" Caren yelled as she made her way down to the beach. The woman I married narrowed her eyes and huffed at us. "I mean really, it's bad enough I was being bored but you had to be down here, torturing my poor husband? Go put your husband to sleep and leave mine alone."

"Caren, why do you always have to be so mean?" Julie asked sweetly as she made her way back to the cabin.

"And you, why in the world are you shirtless talking to that whore of a sister of mine? Don't tell me that you still carry a torch for her." Caren's eyes swept over the fallen beer bottle, the disgust registered on her face. "I should have known that your other love helped you deal with her boring stories and self-righteous preaching. Sometimes I wonder why I even wanted to marry you."

As she walked away, I sucked in a deep breath and wondered the same thing. When we married, I had been drunk and there had been a full moon. It had to be that combination that led me to actually utter the words 'I do.' Most people thought that I was joking when I said that, especially since I stayed married. However divorce wasn't an option.

The moon reflected on the water, and once again I noted that it was full. That must have been the reason Julie kissed me. She would never have done so without so provocation. I took a deep breath and decided to just file that as another secret that I would have to keep for the rest of my life.

With a depression settling in around my heart, I made my way back up to the cabin. One day I knew that I would be able to end everything, but that wasn't today. The thought of a knife slicing into my veins and emptying out my blood put a small smile on my face. That was quickly erased when I saw that my sleeping bag had been thrown out of the cabin.

"You got kicked out too?" Julie asked. I was so startled that I jumped back. It was odd seeing her sitting outside, wrapped in her blanket. Weren't women the ones who kicked men out? I wasn't sure it had ever happened the other way around. "Ben is mad because I wouldn't yell at Caren for being crass."

"Maybe I should get a divorce. I don't know how I can stay married to that woman."


"If you don't stay married, how will we have an affair?" She smiled at me, I was certain that this had to be a dream. "I know it goes against God but I don't believe in divorce but I don't want to be married to him anymore, and I want to be with you."