Alien Abduction by Irving Belateche

Author:Irving Belateche [Belateche, Irving]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Laurel Canyon Press
Published: 2016-03-28T18:30:00+00:00

JENNY

CHAPTER TWENTY

I couldn’t wait much longer. I had to tell Eddie about the new job. I’d already waited far too long. So long that I now found myself sitting next to him in the passenger seat, on the way to meet my oncologist, with this lie of omission still hanging between us. We were on the verge of finding out the results of my first round of chemo treatments, and there was this chasm between us—of my own making. I wanted to be of one mind with my husband. Whether the test results were good or bad, I wanted to look Eddie in the eye and discuss what to do next without this dividing us.

It had already been two weeks since Mimi Quincy had offered me the job—which I’d accepted on the spot. So every time I’d had a conversation with Eddie since then, I’d been lying to him. For how could any conversation be truthful when I was withholding such critical information?

Sure, I had hidden things from him in the past, but they’d all been minor things with no serious repercussions. Like when Jake had gotten a C on that Calculus test in tenth grade. He hadn’t studied because he’d spent the weekend prior to the test at a friend’s house. He’d asked me not to tell his dad about the grade and promised he’d get an A in the course, which he did.

But hiding a job from Eddie was different. This was a big deal. Especially because I was only one week away from starting. I buttressed myself and turned to Eddie, ready to spill the beans. But when I saw him, absorbed in his own thoughts, staring ahead at the road, my will weakened. It weakened because I had the feeling Eddie already had enough problems of his own.

Since he’d started his new job, he’d been more reticent than usual. I suspected this was because he was under tremendous pressure to deliver, and the learning curve was steep. But I also had this uneasy feeling that his position with ADM wasn’t secure—that it was provisional. That though he was paid well, ADM expected him to prove himself before they’d commit to a long-term contract. I even wondered if he’d lied to me—that the job was commission-based and not salaried.

“I think it’s going to be good news,” Eddie said.

“I hope so.” The doctor hadn’t given us any hints about the test results.

“You’ve been feeling pretty good, and that must mean something.”

“Maybe… but cancer is sneaky.” I’d been feeling good because of the job.

“Boy, you really don’t want to get your hopes up, do you?”

“It seems easier to prepare for the worst.”

He looked over at me and gave me a warm smile. “We’ll be okay no matter what the results are.”

He was trying to make me feel better, and I appreciated it, but I didn’t have a response. My mind was still on the chasm between us. The longer I waited to tell him about the pilot gig, the bigger our argument would be.

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