skittish_butterfly
Star
- Joined
- Oct 26, 2012
I feel such relief that you're ok with what happened between me and Laura, that you understand what it's like for us. I kiss you and squeeze your hand and smile at your joke. "I'd never kick you out, Honey, who would...." my voice drops to a conspiratorial whisper as I glance around briefly making sure no one seems to be listening especially to us, "well, who would, you know, give me what I need, shall I say?" I rest my hand on your thigh, so innocently and yet feeling very close to you, as Laura pulls her chair back in.
My thoughts dance with relief from the worry and guilt I hadn't shared something important with you, finding you all but suspected it already anyway and understood freeing my mind to gnaw on other issues.
...Like whether I would ever go back to school again, whether it even mattered to me anymore? I kept saying I would, but was that just part of the old Anne, the part that needed approval from my dad or a teacher or a slip of paper from a University to tell me I mattered. I don't need any of that anymore. I have you. Maybe I'm just more mature, more grown up, more independent, except for needing you of course which is a good thing. I can put school on hold. If I go back it will only be because I want to know something specific, not because I want the words "college graduate" attached to my name like some sort of validation. I'll have the words "Heath's wife" to do that for me instead, and that means so much more.
...Like if I want to make movies and money and be famous in some warped little way. What would happen if everyone who knew me found out? What would happen if people who saw me everywhere knew what you do to me, knew I volunteer for it, on camera? Would this become my whole life? Would that even bother me? I feel so good, sitting between you and Laura, that I think I might not mind at all, not so long as you're with me. It might be inconvenient, but I've never felt more special and more alive than during this whirlwind time with you, and I can't imagine pulling back and going back to what I used to be, how I used to feel.
...Like whether I want to go to dessert with Laura. My anxiety about that seems lessened, now that you were so understanding about me and her. And the fact that Derek is going to be there doesn't have to make me nervous, not now that I feel so in synch with you again.
"Sure, Laura, we'd love to come. I don't think we can make it a late night, but shooting our first movie together, the three of us, that's something special." It's not that I want to get to sleep so early, it's just that if there's going to be a late night, I want that part spent with you. But a little coffee and cake first that wouldn't be so bad. I take another nibble of my half eaten fish but I don't want to eat anymore. A few sips of my water, but I'm not actually that thirsty, and instead I push my glass over to you with a little smile. "I think I'm done."
My thoughts dance with relief from the worry and guilt I hadn't shared something important with you, finding you all but suspected it already anyway and understood freeing my mind to gnaw on other issues.
...Like whether I would ever go back to school again, whether it even mattered to me anymore? I kept saying I would, but was that just part of the old Anne, the part that needed approval from my dad or a teacher or a slip of paper from a University to tell me I mattered. I don't need any of that anymore. I have you. Maybe I'm just more mature, more grown up, more independent, except for needing you of course which is a good thing. I can put school on hold. If I go back it will only be because I want to know something specific, not because I want the words "college graduate" attached to my name like some sort of validation. I'll have the words "Heath's wife" to do that for me instead, and that means so much more.
...Like if I want to make movies and money and be famous in some warped little way. What would happen if everyone who knew me found out? What would happen if people who saw me everywhere knew what you do to me, knew I volunteer for it, on camera? Would this become my whole life? Would that even bother me? I feel so good, sitting between you and Laura, that I think I might not mind at all, not so long as you're with me. It might be inconvenient, but I've never felt more special and more alive than during this whirlwind time with you, and I can't imagine pulling back and going back to what I used to be, how I used to feel.
...Like whether I want to go to dessert with Laura. My anxiety about that seems lessened, now that you were so understanding about me and her. And the fact that Derek is going to be there doesn't have to make me nervous, not now that I feel so in synch with you again.
"Sure, Laura, we'd love to come. I don't think we can make it a late night, but shooting our first movie together, the three of us, that's something special." It's not that I want to get to sleep so early, it's just that if there's going to be a late night, I want that part spent with you. But a little coffee and cake first that wouldn't be so bad. I take another nibble of my half eaten fish but I don't want to eat anymore. A few sips of my water, but I'm not actually that thirsty, and instead I push my glass over to you with a little smile. "I think I'm done."