If I Did It by The Goldman Family

Author:The Goldman Family
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Midpoint Trade Books
Published: 2008-01-04T00:00:00+00:00

5.

THINGS FALL APART

LATER THAT SAME morning, I went by the office and told Cathy Randa all about Mother’s Day weekend. “We are done,” I said. “We are moving on.”

“You sure about that?”

“Positive.”

Cathy looked sort of relieved, then smiled a big smile and said, “Guess who’s coming to town tonight?”

“Who?”

“Paula.”

“You’re kidding me?” I said.

“No,” she said. “She’s in New York, on her way to Honolulu, but she’s stopping in L.A. for the night. I’m supposed to pick her up at the airport.”

“Wait a minute,” I said. “Let me pick her up.”

“I don’t know about that … “

“Trust me,” I said. “It’s definitely over between me and Nicole.”

That evening, I showed up at the airport and waited for Paula by the baggage claim. I saw her before she saw me, and she looked as beautiful as ever. She also looked kind of stunned, to be honest. “What are you doing here?” she asked.

“Well, it’s been a year,” I said. “And it’s over.”

“You’re done?”

“We’re done.”

I drove her back to her place, and she was shaking her head the whole way, unable to believe that this was really happening. A year earlier she’d warned me that she wasn’t the type of girl who would wait around for me, and she hadn’t waited around, but suddenly I was there, and she was there, and we both still wanted each other.

We spent the night together, and the next day I took her to the airport. We were happy, like a pair of kids, and I drove home wondering why I’d ever put her through such hell. I was also grateful—she was being incredibly understanding. When I reached her in Honolulu later that day, however, she sounded a little less happy. “I’m still hurt,” she said.

“I’m sorry,” I said. “I did what I had to do. If I hadn’t made an effort to keep the family together, I would have wondered about it for the rest of my life.”

“It was a long year,” she said.

“It was long for me, too.”

“I don’t honestly know what I want from you,” she said. “All I know is that I want to take it real slow.”

I was game for anything, and I told her so. I wanted Paula back in my life and I made it clear that I’d jump through hoops for her. On the other hand, to be completely honest, I wasn’t sure we could make it work. Paula was looking to settle down and start making babies, and I was done with that part of my life. I figured we could have that conversation when she returned to Los Angeles, but it never happened. A few weeks later, Nicole and Ron Goldman were dead, and I was being charged with the murders.

But I’m getting ahead of myself again.

A few days after Paula left for Honolulu, I was in New York on business, and I got a call from Gigi, my housekeeper. She was upset. She said Nicole had just been by the house, and that she’d asked her to take care of the kids that weekend.

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