Threefold by Scott Hildreth

Author:Scott Hildreth [Hildreth, Scott]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Eralde Publishing, LLC
Published: 2015-04-24T04:00:00+00:00

RAIN

I fought to maintain my composure and speak without losing my wits. After opening my mouth twice to nothing but a silent puff of warm breath, I sat on the center couch, lowered my pack to my side, and exhaled.

Help me…

Please.

I fought against the lump in my throat.

“I need you to both come in here,” I said with as much authority as I could muster.

“I’ll have dinner ready in ten minutes,” Cade responded.

I heard Ethan’s closet door close. Without turning around, I spoke into the open room, “I really need to talk to you both. Right now, if possible. It’s kind of an emergency.”

“Hold on,” Cade sighed.

Ethan peered around the corner of the frame of his bedroom door, “Give me a minute.”

After no more than a few seconds, they both stepped into the living room and gawked at me.

“What’s going on,” Ethan asked as he pointed down at my pack.

“Rain…” Cade’s voice was full of emotion as it trailed off; he undoubtedly stopped short of what he intended to say.

Both men glanced at each other, and then shifted their eyes toward me.

“Please. Listen. One of you sit on the loveseat, and the other on the couch,” I said as I wagged my finger toward the couch and loveseat, “And let me finish, and I mean completely finish before you say anything.”

“Let me…uhhm, let me turn off the stove,” Cade coughed.

Ethan sat on the loveseat and faced me. As Cade walked back into the room, he glanced around nervously, and eventually sat down at the end of the couch, facing Ethan. After studying my dingy sneakers for a long moment, I exhaled and raised my head.

“I can’t think of any way to say this other than to just say it. So, after considerable thought, and a lot of tears, I want to say…” I paused and swallowed heavily.

No matter how many times I went over it in my head, I could not come up with a manner to say all of what I had to say that would give the two men an accurate understanding of my feelings and take less than thirty minutes. One way, however, quickly made my feelings clear, but I feared would cause immediate reactions from them both. As there were so many ways to express my feelings, none of which were subtle, I chose to condense my thoughts into a few short but well thought out sentences.

I inhaled a breath, looked up from my sneakers, and spoke.

“I love you both, and not in a broad sense. I’m terribly sorry, but I have fallen in love with each of you, deeply and independently. Together, we must decide what to do. But, regardless of what we decide here tonight, I know this…” I exhaled audibly, inhaled another breath, and continued, “If we can’t figure out a way for this to work, I’m leaving, and I’m leaving tonight. I love you both too much to cause harm to one of you over this.”

Remarkably, I was able to maintain my composure.

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