Wednesday Night

Jessica was at her parents house dog sitting as they had gone away to their second home. It was October and her birthday had just passed. I had a party for her the previous weekend, and it wasn't much as we had just moved into our new apartment and the boxes were still scattered with messes everywhere. We had married the previous summer, and had been together for 9 years.

She had invited her ex-boyfriend from highschool to the party, but he declined. He had moved back in the summer as well, and I was on good terms with him for the most part. He and Jess remained good friends and I never wanted to come across as jealous and instead wanted to be more mature about the situation.

Things only began to get tense when there were continous rendevouz whether for dinner or him stopping by to have a cigarette with her. At one point over the summer he invited her to an NFL game, and I decided to finally say something as these situations were coming up too frequently. She thought I of course was being ridiculous, and got upset.

She never brought him up openly to me again after that conversation. She did continue to text him, and I began to grow suspicious of both of their intentions.

The Wednesday of the week that she was dog sitting, I gave her a call as I was watching TV at our apartment, and wondered what she was up to. She let me know that she was watching TV as well. I asked her if she wanted company, and she let me know she was ok.

Being that I was suspicious of the whole tone that she took, I decided to go over, and mask it like I was surprising her.

I drove to her parents, and pulled up to the driveway. I noticed that Joe's Audi was parked at the house, and I immediately began to get pissed.

I got out of the car, and quietly closed the door, so I could not be heard. I walked up the steps that led to the front of the house, and looked through the front window. that bordered the front door. It gave an open view to the living room and the couch in it. As I looked in I saw Joe and Jessica sitting next to each other on the couch. They were huddled pretty close, and there was a bottle of red wine along with two glasses on the table...