Bob
suggested maybe they should take time away from each other. This scared Samantha. She felt she was finally in a meaningful
relationship and she did not want it to end.
Therefore, she strongly protested the very mention of it. She insisted that, surely, grown adults could
work through it.
Bob
wanted to say that he believed she was more into the relationship than he
was. He knew he found Samantha
attractive and believed she was an exceptional person. Deep down, he knew his heart still belonged
to Charlotte. Now that he admitted this
to himself, he felt guilty again for his intimacy with Samantha. Except now he felt he cheated on Charlotte . Instantly, he remembered a sermon he heard as
a teenager. The speaker mentioned that there
is a place for fires when you are camping.
They belong in the fire pit.
There is a place for sex. It
belongs in marriage.
A
crippling fear swept over Bob. He
couldn’t love the person he was with because he was in love with another. It became plain to him that he needed to end
his relationship with Samantha. Still,
he did not want to hurt her. She didn’t
deserve that. While he believed he
needed to do it soon, he decided to wait for a more opportune time. Maybe she would realize the relationship
wasn’t right.
Though
dying inside, she told her boys to be brave and they would be ok. The time would go by fast and they would return
home in no time. As the boys went to
board the bus, John tightly held onto Jack’s hand. Tears rolled down John’s face while Jack struggled
to be brave. He had the same look in his
eyes when Nancy
dropped him off at the airport. He knew
he had to do this but was apprehensive.
How she wished she could go to the departing gate with him. Of course, she couldn’t with airport security
the way it currently is.
She
pulled up to the curb and they both got out of the car and walked to the
trunk. Jack took his luggage from the
trunk and placed it on the curb, then turned to his mother. She hugged her boy tightly. He said, “I love you, mom.” She burst into tears.
“I
love you, too I hope you find what you
need.”
He
hadn’t planned to say it but he felt it necessary. “I won’t be long. I will come home.”
“That’s
my boy.”
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