Ignoring And Remembering

I tossed and turned most of the night, since June and I were married I have always had her sleeping beside me. I never realized that I had grown accustomed to her being there with me. A little after four in the morning I climbed out of bed, just as tired as when I climbed into bed. I made my way into the kitchen and made a pot of coffee.

I didn’t bother turning on the small TV, not wanting to make too much noise and sat at the kitchen table and drank my first cup of coffee. A little before five, June came stumbling in. Usually the first thing out of my mouth when talking would have been ‘Morning!’ but today it was “Really Doug, you fucked Doug?”

June hung her head down low, got herself a cup and poured herself a cup of coffee. She took a seat at the other end of the table, doing anything besides looking at me. She just sat there sipping her coffee and avoided eye contact with me. I had enough of her attitude, so I took my coffee and went into the living room.

I was alone for a solid minute when June came in and immediately started in on me.

“Why do you give a damn who I sleep with? It’s not like you seem so choosy who you sleep with!”

That’s when I lost it!

“If you just shut up and listened to me, you would have found out that Sandra’s heel broke and I caught her before she fell face first on the floor. Nothing else happened between us, I swear it!” Now you would have thought I would leave it at that but no i just had to literally slap her in the face. “Unlike you with the parking attendant and with my former best friend Doug!”

June just stood there stunned but I could tell that she was remembering her night which got me remembering what I did after what I saw in the underground. Now neither of us were looking at the other. But if she was thinking like I was then she was contemplating her next affair.

I didn’t want to go back to Nancy, but if June was going to openly cheat then why was I letting her get ahead of me? Then June finally spoke up.

“What did you do to Doug? He wasn’t here when I woke up.”