White Plains by David Hicks

Author:David Hicks
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction
Publisher: Conundrum Press
Published: 2017-03-10T05:00:00+00:00

A GIRL’S GOTTA DO WHAT A GIRL’S GOTTA DO

Well, now he’s gone insane. Off. His. Rocker. So I had to petition for full custody, and to keep receiving the same child support, I don’t care if he’s unemployed, because what they don’t know is that woman he’s with is a bestselling author who makes a ton of money.

Soooo much has changed. Who knew my life would turn into this?

So this is what I want to say. Here it is. Before I go on and on, I’m just going to say this. This man, he’s the love of my life. If you haven’t had this feeling then you can’t understand, and you shouldn’t stand in judgment of me just because I’m about to file these petitions. If you don’t know what it’s like to have the love of your life look you in the eyes and say “I don’t love you anymore and I’m not sure I ever did” then you cannot understand me. You. Can. Not.

Okay, now I’m going to cry.

We never had a chance. Not even when we were first married, living in that shithole. We didn’t even have time for a honeymoon, we had to work. I mean, we did have a long weekend on Nantucket, that was nice, and we called it a honeymoon, but in retrospect it wasn’t much of one. We rode bikes, we got completely roasted (I have fair skin, lots of freckles), we ate ice cream. Then three days of lying in bed sunburned and trying to kiss without hurting our faces. I still have this cute little ceramic lighthouse he bought me there. I love lighthouses!

Then Nathan was born, and everything changed. Not that it was Nathan’s fault. God, no. We all know whose fault it was. Is.

It’s been a year and a half since he up and left, but I don’t think this feeling is ever going to go away.

I’ll tell you this much: that man has some anger issues. He thinks I’m angry. He thinks I’m hysterical. Ha! I’d rather be the way I am than the way he is. The way I am, at least you know what you’re getting. The way he is, watch out. You never see it coming.

Now you tell me which is more dangerous.

And now what’s he done? Moving way the heck out to Colorado! My goodness.

What kind of father leaves his kids?

He’s off in the mountains right now. God help me, I don’t know where exactly but I don’t want to know. It might as well be Siberia for all I care.

Just before he moved out, very sudden, he called to tell me what he was planning to do, and I slammed down the phone. I couldn’t believe it. First the separation, then I was served with divorce papers (worst feeling in the world, by the way, I don’t wish that on anybody), and now this. I didn’t let him tell the kids; it would have been too painful for them. He tried for days, but I was like, no dice, mister.

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