"My MaRiLyn..."

79.

"Hello,hi... Uh,I miss you. I miss us. How are you?" I ask Ciara over the phone and she is quiet.

She doesn't want to respond to me.

"How's work going?" I ask her again trying to find out how she's doing but she's ice cold.

"Cece?"

"What do you want Timothy?" She finally speaks up and I sigh out of relief.

"Finally, she speaks! Uh,I just want to check up on you and hear how you're doing,"

"And then what? Come up with something shitty to do to hurt me again?" She bitterly asks.

"I just want to check up on you,I miss you," I tell her and I hear her scoff.

"Boy,bye," she says to me and cuts the line.

I groan in annoyance and I deeply exhale thinking about what to do next. I finally come up with something: call Marilyn.

I dial Marilyn's number and it begins to ring. I feel excited maybe she'll make me feel better.

"Hello,"

"Hi,Marilyn. It's Timothy," I say to her and she says something I didn't expect her to.

"What do you want?"

"I want to check up on you and hear how you're doing," I say and she chuckles.

"I'm fine. Happy now?" She asks sarcastically.

"Are you home alone?" I ask ignoring her statement.

"There is a fucking funeral taking place at my home. I'm still mourning my child for Christ's sake,Timothy! Of course not,I'm not home alone," she replies quite annoyed with me.

"Can I at least come over?" I ask and she groans in annoyance by my question.

"Did you hear what I just said? I'm not home alone. I'm with my husband trying to make this marriage work by at least being there for each other during these hard times. I don't want you to ruin this chance again,Tim. So leave me the fuck alone," she says brutally and hangs up on me.

I'm taken aback by her response.

She's not home alone and she wants to fix her marriage in a time like this? Are you out of your mind Marilyn?

This Is a time where she should feel good and I will make her feel good like always. I don't want her to call me back asking for what we both want,I just want to think for myself and make her happy.

Richard won't because he's not her true love. He never has been despite them being married for who knows how long. He is a nassacistic hypocrite smearing Marilyn with nothing but lies and giving her high hopes for nothing.

She shouldn't believe in him,she should believe in me.

Richard is a pain,a burden,a fool and nothing divine. He is the precise evidence of what being less of a man is.

Maybe I should immediately get him out of the way but hey,I don't want Marilyn to break apart again and again and again and again.

I don't want her to fall apart. Not now,not yet. Of course eliminating Richard out of Marilyn and I's perfect world is a must but doing it now would ruin my chances with Marilyn.

I should plot something grand before it's too late.