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A happy wife lets doubt in. Daily Flash Fiction Challenge 10/16/2016 |
Prompt: window, rumor, left Written for: "Daily Flash Fiction Challenge" ![]() ![]() Looking out my window it was easy to see that I’d made the right choice and didn’t buy into the gossip from the rumor mill. I could’ve left so long ago, ended up alone, but instead I followed my heart. That one choice had brought me so much happiness over the years. Dan really was a wonderful husband, always surprising me with flowers, songs, dinners and trinkets to add to my bracelet. I watched him making one pass after another as he cut the grass, the sun almost gone while the night sky threatened to take over. I wondered if he would finish the chore tonight or have to wait until morning. Turning the burner down on the stove I headed to the attached garage to check on him. Standing in the open door I watched him with a smile, still in love with him ten years after marriage. Memories flooded my mind, remembering how many times I’d wait for him on the patio with a glass of cold lemonade after his weekly chore on a hot summers day. I couldn’t remember the last time I’d done that, and turned to go inside to make a pitcher. Before I made it through the door, Dan’s cellphone rang. I noticed it on the shelf beside the door and reached for it. “Hello.” “Where are you, sweetie? I've missed you.” I gasped and dropped to my knees, those old rumors of his cheating racing through my mind. “Sara?” Dan said from the doorway. I threw the phone at him. “Your sweetie misses you,” I spat bitterly, my heart breaking. Dan looked at the phone and back, his expression filled with guilt. “Did I forget to tell you my sister’s back from the Australian Outback?” WC: 292 |