having my wife pissed off. I got to say I am with them on this one…you know damn well you are wrong.” I closed the door quietly and crawled back into bed. I went home the next day early and made sure I used the chain locks so Wes couldn’t get in…I needed to get my key back. He tried to call so many times and I finally turned my ringer off. I fell asleep in bed with the shades and curtains pulled. I didn’t want to see anyone or talk to anyone. I just wanted to disappear. My nerves were so rattled I felt sick I wanted to be alone and be miserable. I woke to a pounding on my window and Wes hollering to get my attention and then it stopped. After a few minutes I heard the front door and the chain being strained as he tried to open the door. I walked out into the living room and he stopped. He looked at me through the slightly opened door, “Look at me Sam…please. Let me explain everything. It was completely innocent…Sam you got to believe me. I know how it looked and I am so sorry but it was nothing.” Nothing why do they always say that when it is everything…it means EVERYTHING! I stared at him with a blank look. He was waiting for me to say something but I had nothing. I felt so empty and I really couldn’t think of one thing to say. I couldn’t do this again…my heart couldn’t take it. I turned and walked back to my room leaving him stand there watching me through the cracked door. I just made it to my bed when the nausea hit I grabbed for the garbage can to empty the water I had drunk earlier from my system because besides that I had consumed nothing. I hid out as much as I could but Allison was the one person I knew I needed by my side if I was going to pull through this. I was a nervous wreck all the time I couldn’t stomach anything without eventually running to the bathroom to get sick. I couldn’t believe I was going through this again. How could I be so stupid to let myself fall for another guy only to have history repeat itself? Wes called everyday he sent flowers and cards. He would text but I never read them and left messages that I never listened to. I knew how it all went... ‘I’m sorry, it was a mistake, I’ll never hurt you again, how can I make this right…She meant nothing…blah blah.’ I refused to hear the excuses I just didn’t give a shit anymore. I hated that I allowed myself to be hurt a second time and I refused to ever let anyone hurt me again. I became bitter and angry. The things I used to do that I enjoyed I really didn’t find enjoyable anymore. I had to force myself to go to work and take care of the patients that once brought me such joy. Everything I did anymore was forced. Wes continued being pretty consistent with his attempts he would try to call every morning before work, every lunch hour, on his way home from work and then at least four or five times throughout the evening. He stopped by a couple times but I had a locksmith change out the lock on the front door. The first day he tried his key after I had changed it almost caused me to laugh when I heard him cussing out the lock…’Damn son of a bitching thing…Fuck!’ He finally realized what happen and then proceeded to beat on the door for the next twenty minutes then left squealing his tires.
Twenty Two
It had been a week and a half since I found Sarah half naked at Wes’s. I was at work. Ethan the little boy that used to bring me such joy was just finishing up with his therapy and I was squeezing my eyes from the stress headache I had been fighting all day. I stood up to gather up the therapy ball and so on when I felt light headed. I quickly lowered myself back to the floor…things were fuzzy and I think I blacked out…I was seeing spots. “Samantha Honey, are you okay…you fainted sweetheart. I called someone just sit still you hit your head.” Martha my