He stared at me and sat across from me.
Before, I would’ve been asking him what was
wrong. Now, I just wanted to enjoy my meal.
Liam said, “We were in the middle of a fight
when Dave had his party, so…”
I cut him off. “It’s okay. It doesn’t matter.”
He stared at me in disbelief.
The last time, I asked Dave why he lied to me.
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Dave looked at Liam and smirked.
“I didn’t want to hurt you.”
Liam snapped, “That was so long ago, why
are you still talking about it?”
After dinner, Liam stayed.
I took out the divorce papers.
He looked at it and laughed.
“What’s this? You want a divorce?”
He dropped the papers. I picked them up and
handed them to him.
“I’m serious,” I said.
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“Why do you always do this?”
He slammed the door.
I put the papers on his desk.
Liam didn’t come home that night.
The next day, Liam picked me up from work
again.
I opened the back door.
Liam asked, “Why are you… in the back?”
I looked at him. “What’s the difference?”
“Get in the front.”
I sat in the passenger seat.
There was something under my butt. I picked
it up and saw that it was lipstick.
Liam said, “That’s probably Chloe’s. She loses
stuff all the time.”
He watched me.
I handed him the lipstick. “Make sure to give
it back to her. It was expensive.”
“I really don’t know. I–I don’t know what to
say…”
I cut him off. “It’s okay, Liam.”
“What?”
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said.
He turned pale. I looked out the window.
Liam started picking me up from work and
stopped going out.
Every day, I left the divorce papers on the
table.
He didn’t say anything about them, and
neither did I.
If I got worked up, he would make fun of me.
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school. He wants to take us out to dinner.”
Dave’s nephew wanted to get into an
international school, but he didn’t qualify.
When I got there, I said hi to everyone.
“Honey, thank you so much for the help. My
sister has been really stressed about this.”
I smiled and took the drink, but I didn’t drink.
“It was nothing.”
Chloe walked in. “I knew I heard you guys,
Liam, Dave!”
She saw me and stopped smiling. “Oh, hey.”
She turned to Liam. “I need to have dinner
too. Can I eat with you?”
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Liam glanced at me.
I said, “Sure, why not?”
Dave looked at me.
“Liam, can you peel my shrimp?”
“Does Liam always peel your shrimp? Every
time we eat, he says I’m dumb, so I can only
eat the ones he peels.”
She was happy.
I asked Liam to do that once.
He said, “You can do it yourself.”
“But everyone else does that.”
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