“Life is like the dead. That’s what happened to me when you left, “Brett held his wife by the shoulder to calm her down.
“But … why didn’t you look for me? I was also waiting for you but over time, I thought you forgot about me forever.” It’s true that he waited for Brett to find him but he just waited for nothing. He had just finished school, Brett still hadn’t shown up to him.
“No, it’s not true sweetheart. I was looking for you but you just disappeared like a bubble. If you only knew the hardships that I went through when you were gone.” He regretted the times he was not with the woman. But past is past. The past cannot be changed but their future can change.
“I’m sorry, too. But I was really mad at you and Bettina.” Just thinking about that bitch made her want to scratch his eyes out!
“I’m sorry. Promise, there will be no more Bettina’s in the future.” And it’s a promise he vowed to keep. Brett smiled when he noticed that Rachel had calmed down a bit.
“Why not!” said Rachel. “So, can you leave now?” Did he think that everything’s back to normal because they were intimate? He must be kidding!
“I thought, are we okay?” How the woman think remained a mystery to him. It’s already released all the anger in the chest, crying, and cursing, but they’re still not okay?
“That’s what you think.” She picked up Brett’s scattered clothes and handed them to the man. He also changed his clothes.
While Brett still did not understand the course of events. When she agreed to have sex with him earlier, she had the courage to go back to normal. “No. I don’t want to leave. I can’t lose you for the second time.” he is stubborn. She threw the holding clothes in the nearby laundry basket and went back to bed. Sometimes, he could be stubborn, too!
“Brett, don’t be like that.” He grabbed the man’s leg and pulled it away. How could he be so pigheaded now? It doesn’t matter at his age of thirty -five. He managed to pull the man but nothing really, eh. It did not budge when it fell on the bed and it was like a rock in weight!
“Mom, I’m home!”
Rachel panicked when she heard Carter’s approaching voice. He looked badly at Brett because he could think of no reason in case Carter saw the man. What should I do?
Carter’s lively voice got closer and closer and he had no time. In a few seconds the boy would enter and he still did not know what to do with the stubborn man!
“You made the right decision, sweetheart.” Brett whispered to Rachel as the woman leaned over him.
And since she was wearing no clothes, she took a comforter. They’re like a new couple who was too lazy to get out of bed. He pretended to be asleep because he did not know how to talk to the child.
“Mommy! Mom … look at what Uncle Francis bought me. It’s a giant dinosaur!” Carter spoke excitedly as he entered the room.
“Shhhhhhhh!” Brett motioned for the boy to be quiet and pointed to the sleeping woman.
“Oops, sorry. But why is she under the sheet? She’s naked?” The ever observant Carter noticed that her mother was well-hidden under the comforter.
“You think so?” He smiled at the child who was torn between leaving and staying in the room. Brett could tell that Rachel fumed in anger underneath the sheet and she proved it when she pinched his side really, really hard. “Ouch!” Brett said and tried to remove the woman’s hand from his side. “Buddy, can you just come back later?”
“Sure. Hmmm, will you be making my little brother?” Carter asked.
Brett frowned at what the woman asked. It is too young to know the business of adults. “You bet, we will.” He says to leave it.
A minute later, when Carter was gone, Rachel threw the comforter. Furious. Her cheeks were red, her eyes were wide open and her jaws were weeping. “Why do you even have to tell that kid? What is Carter going to think?” He shouted at Brett who obviously enjoyed what he had done to bully him.
“Well, he’ll think we might not come to dinner later because we’re both busy making his little brother.” Brett didn’t budge even though Rachel wanted to kill him in anger.
“BRETT! You truly are demented!” Why is it so hard to talk? Why doesn’t it just accept that they have no hope of ever getting back together?
“Ah, sweet, you get even better when you’re angry.” Then, he bestowed a deep kiss on her lips.
Rachel pushed the man away, but it all happened and he was able to kiss her on the lips. “We must stop it now, or regret later!” She warned him.
“I don’t want to stop, remember that. Now, whether you like it or not, we’re married in front of your son.”
His ear tingled at what Brett said ‘in front of your son’. After all she still thought Carter was her son to another man. Is the man blind? Why doesn’t it see that Carter bears a resemblance to him? “But, Brett–”
“Nothing but. For the meantime, I’m here first.” If the woman can’t be brought into courtship, eh no, he’ll just go the other way.
“I hate you!” he said to the man.
“I love you,” and he would prove his love and devotion to her even if it would take him a lifetime. He got up, took the clothes from the laundry basket and put on his pants. He refused to wear his t-shirt again. Since he would live with them, he couldn’t just park his vehicle outside the gate. She was already at the door when Rachel called her name. “What’s my fault again this time?”
“You’re half-dressed! You’re going to come out just like that?” He was scandalized by Brett’s order. What is Francis going to say? That she surrendered her flag once more? Arrg, she’s going to die from embarrassment and knowing Francis, he would surely share the tale with Jennifer!
“With this kind of body? Some would pay just to have a glance…” Brett was so proud that he showed the woman his muscles.
“It’s arrogant. Hey, for your information, you’re nothing like Piolo Pascual’s little finger!” He doesn’t know. He was bored laughing at Brett’s antics. Will he let it park all over the subdivision with its adonis-like physique? Surely not! He got up and ran out of the room and followed the man. “Hey, wait for me…!” Moreover, her embarrassment didn’t stop there. When they descended, he saw Carter and Francis obviously looking forward to their descent.
“So, what does that mean? You’re back? You’re not an easy girl either, are you? Anyway, if you’re that pogi and my ex-husband is yummy, I won’t let him go either.” Said Francis.
“Excuse me? I’m still her husband!” Brett responded angrily to what Francis had said.