An early morning call

Lying in bed in a deep level of stupor I am slammed into awareness as my phone suddenly goes off at full volume with Sia's song Chandelier. After only a moment to shake the cobwebs off I realize that my wife's ringer.

In a very groggy voice, "Hello babe, did you forget the time change? It’s only 1:30 and I have a 6AM practice."

"No, I didn’t forget. What happened last night? I just spent an hour on the phone with Jamie and about all I got was that you were at her house and Matt broke up with her." My wife questions in a panicked tone. "I need you to go console her for me. I know you two bicker like brother and sister but you do both love each other."

"Yeah, I went over and she gave me a massage, coach was rough yesterday, so when I was leaving, I ran into her boyfriend and he went all star struck. But he was supposed to be gone for a week, guess that’s why he came back."

"I would go over to her, but I am four thousand miles away, please will you at least go talk with her, maybe let her crash with you tonight?"

With Jennifer's request for me to let Jamie crash with me I am instantly thrown back to a time about a year after we were married.

Creeping into the bedroom Jennifer crawls up onto the bed and up close to me petitioning, "She is my twin, she is me, we are the same, I need to help her. She is going to sleep here with me tonight. She really loved him and needs to feel that she is still loved. I know you just got home a couple hours ago so just go back to sleep." And with that I simply rolled over a went to sleep.