feet rest on his legs.
I get red and try to take them away but he keeps
them in place with a hand. He doesn’t say anything
and I don’t ask.
Sometimes words are really overrated.
Patrick
What am I doing in this apartment? What the heck
am I doing here with her?
Oh, go on, what else could I have done?
Abandoned her? Made her feel more alone than
she already does?
She is completely terrified. She has no one.
Her father is away and her house is being rented
out. She studies and has a part-time job with us
and she’s practically out on the street because of
that asshole who didn’t know how to keep his dick
in his pants. God, If I find him on the streets I
think I’ll kill him with my own hands. Oh, it’s
true, he doesn’t know that Erin is … I can’t even
say it. Erin’spregnant.By that asshole. And he’s
got another woman.
What a fucking mess.
Maybe she should have told him, but what
would have happened? Would he have stayed with
her because he ‘had to’? What kind of life would
that be? It’s already mighty hard raising children
when a couple love each other, can you imagine
what it must be like when the man is in love with
someone else? Nah. It would be a certified
disaster. An unhappy life sentence. Even if I think
