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Love You By My Side-Chapter 5
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Love On My Side
Author: Emily Giffin
Chapter 5
It was dark when I turned into a quiet place in the middle of our trees at Murray Hill. Andy arrived late at night to go home, but this time I did not mind the hours he had to work in his top law firm. I will have time to bathe, light up some candles, open a bottle of wine and find the perfect music to dispel the traces of the last past from my mind, Leo's garment. "Dancing Queen" would be extremely reasonable, I thought and smiled to myself. Absolutely nothing belongs to ABBA that reminds Leo. Anyway, I want to be completely with Andy tonight. Belong to us.
As I crossed the cold rain into the reddish sandstone pavement, I took a deep breath. There is nothing glamorous in this building, but I love the look of it. I love the old corridor floor tile flooring riveting footsteps and lamps in the brass pile seriously waiting to be polished thoroughly. I love the Oriental brocade with the mothballs. I love the little elevator, sluggish, threatening people with a space that is always hidden around the clock is about to die. On top of that, I love the fact that it was our first home.
Tonight I choose to take the stairs, stride two steps while imagining someday in the distant future Andy and I come back here with the kids-then-salute- our lives. Lead the children round the "first place parents live together." Tell them, "Well, with family money home parents can live in a high-rise buildingThis is the place in the East, but the three of you choose here, in a quiet space, because this place is much more personal ... Just like ignoring all the beloved South American eyes, My parents chose me. "I walked up to the fourth floor, looking for the key, and when I turned the key, I realized Andy was waiting for me in the house. A surprise I felt half-hearted, half embarrassed as I pushed the door, looked through the kitchen stall into the living room, and saw my husband sprawled on the couch, head resting on the orange pillow. He took off his coat and tie at the floor and opened the green button shirt. At first I thought he had fallen asleep, but then I saw his bare toes vibrate as the recordings passed to Ani DiFranco's As It. It was a song from my CD, and I guess the sound was played in random picking because the song was completely different from Andy's top 40's funniest songs (or type country music). Andy never justifies his music, and every time I hear the music that I'm into, like Elliott Smith or Marianne Faithfull, he'll roll his eyes up to that overly loud melody and cry "Excuse me, but I have to get some poison to drink." But despite his different music, he never forced me to shut off or transfer music. Andy is not the type of person who is in control. For a long time, I watched Andy lay there in the warm amber light and in my heart was filled with a feeling that could only be called. is relieved. I'm relieved because I chose this place, because this is my life. As I took a few steps toward the couch, Andy's closed eyes opened. He straightened up, smiled and said, "Hi, sweetheart." "Hi," I said, and beamed back at him as I dropped my purse on the round table we bought from a market. It's in Chelsea. Margot and her mother hated it as much as they did not like the miscellaneous decor that filled every surface of space vacant in our apartment. A coconut shell monkey wearing a pair of steel frames on a window sill. The beads from Mardi Gras have been dangling from our computer tree. A collection of salt-and-pepper vials lay across the kitchen counter. I'm also neat and tidy Andy, but basically we are mice who like picking up pet toys - Margot jokingly said that is the only danger when we live together. long sit up, stretch your legs to the floor. Then he glanced over his wristwatch and said, "I do not call. Not received. Where have you been all day? I tried calling my cell several times ... "His voice softly - no condemnation - but I still feel trembling as if to say," Go around. Wandering in the rain. Your phone does not work. "All is true, I think. But I still knew I was hiding from my husband, and then immediately considered revising my vow of secrecy with telling him everything. What really happened today. He would certainly be upset - and perhaps a little hurt if he knew I had to let Leo go to see me at that restaurant. I would also feel like if Andy let an old girlfriend come to drink coffee while he could almost easily refuse. That fact could start a debate - the first couple in our marriage. On the other hand, it does not look like Andy feels threatened by Leo or feels hostile towards him. .

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