Page 43 of Sweet Days


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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