Flirting With Twenty

D I V O R C E

I wasn't expecting my life to just end with four words! I mean I have been with this man for over 20 years and now all I have to show for it is our daughter. My daughter Josselyn is beautiful, she has long dirty blonde hair which she gets from her father, slender face, green eyes, and a pretty nice figure.
Her father, Sean Willians and I had been having problems for a while. I would try to kiss him and he would say not right now. Or I would want to be intimate with him in bed and he would say he wasn't in the mood. Our daughter left about 6 months ago to college upstate and about 4 days later my husband handed me those papers.
I never thought in all my years that he would actually divorce me. I can remember it like yesterday.

"Hannah where are my ties at?" Sean asked.

"Where they are always at in the closet hanging on the right hand side." Hannah said.

"You act as if I always get them for myself!" Sean said coldly.

Know don't get me wrong I could tell he talked to me different but this next part threw me for a loop.

"I was just saying I mean you've seen me get them all the time for you it hasn't changed since we first got married." Hannah said sadly.

"Look Hannah we need to talk, I've been needing to tell you this for a while but I've been waiting for the right time to tell you this." He said seeming scared and somewhat relieved.

"I've been sleeping with a woman named Miranda from the coffee shop i frequent and she is pregnant. Well what I'm trying to say is that I want a divorce." Sean said with a small smile.

As I tried to figure out what just happened I could feel the tears streaming down my face. He had just said he had an affair and she was expecting. How could he do something like that we had been married for over 20 years he was my first and only. My wold will forever be changed. What I did next surprised even myself.

I walked towards Sean tears falling faster than they where before and slapped him in the face as hard as I could. He stared at me with disbelief.

"Get the hell out of my house and don't you ever come back in this house again. I will send the rest of your things to you when I can!" Hannah screamed.

Sean walked out not expecting Hannah to do what she did but he abided by her word. Hannah stood in the middle of her living room staring at the picture on the wall. Most of which where of Sean and Hannah, a few with their daughter Josselyn. The pictures just made her angrier and withought  another thought she grabbed one and threw it at the far end wall. She continued to throw more and more until there where no more left.
She began to laugh not that it was actually funny but she just couldn't help it. She sounded like a mad woman but she couldn't help it everything she lived for had been taken from her in a matter of minutes. She finally stopped laughing and then just stood motionless in the room looking at the destruction she left. When she finally snapped out of it she remembered her daughter. What would she think if this, how would she feel. All the what ifs were going to have to wait, she had a divorce paper to read through.
As Hannah read the divorce agreement she noticed that he wanted the house, but there was no way in hell she would let him have it. She had bought it with her savings. Plus if Hannah remembered correctly they had prenuptial and it clearly stated the house, both vehicles, and the cabin in the mountains were hers. And everything else  was up for grabs, not that it really mattered about everything else. She placed the copy of her prenuptial, signed the divorce agreement and sent the documents to her lawyers to make sure everything else is correct.
Hannah decided to try to sleep even though it's is probably nearly impossible to do so. She lay there looking at her white ceiling and it just infuriated her more. After a while she must have fallen asleep because by the time she woke up it was mid morning.

"I can't just lay here all day I need to do something." Hannah said to herself.
As she thought to herself her phone was starting to ring. She looked at it seeing her daughters face blinking on the phone. She answered the phone to what seemed to be an excited daughter.

"Oh my God mom, guess what?" Josselyn asked with excitement.

"What my baby girl?" Hannah asked trying to seem as happy as she could.

"I'm coming home for the week, we have a week long holiday." Josselyn said happily.

"That's great honey I can't wait to see you, but I do have to tell you something when you get here." Hannah said.

"Oh okay mom, I'll probably be there tomorrow. Love you mom!" Josselyn said excitedly.

Josselyn hung up the phone and Hannah had to work up the courage to tell her that her parents are getting  a divorce. As she looked at a picture of her daughter she thought to herself how was she going to to tell her little girl that her father has another woman and she is expecting his child. I thought of so many ways to tell her but she is 18 years old and I can't sugar coat everything,  I'm just going to rip off the bandaid and tell her.
As time went on her nerves started to become jittery and as time came closer to the next morning she was a wreck. Her eyes looked puffy from crying and had dirk circles around her eyes. She got up took a shower, and tried to make herself look as good as possible. I cleaned up the living room as good as I could getting rid of all the glass and picture frames plaving them outside in the trash bins. As I was walking back into my house I noticed a for sale sign at the next house over. It had been vacant for almost 2 years when the couple that lived there got a divorce. It's like a curse that they have on this street. Outside of this house stood a saleswoman placing a sold sign on top of the other. I wonder who would buy that house. A few minutes later a women probably 10 years older than me came out of the house smiling. She was petite woman who had brown hair with a few white strands in it. After her a man came out looked to be about the same age except his hair was almost all grey except for a few pieces of hair that was dirty blonde. They must have saw me staring and waved to say hello. I waved back not wanting to be rude and gave a soft smile in return. As I was turning  to walk back into my home I saw a young man no older than 26 come out of their house and let me just say he was the definition of sexy! He looked to be 5ft 9, dirty blonde hair, hazel eyes, and a gorgeous face. He seemed to be looking back at me with a somewhat puzzled look, and then a small smile appeared on his face. And then I remembered I was still looking at the young man, I blushed many shades of red and then quickly ran inside. I felt like a teenager running away from her crush, and on that note I will drink.

I can't believe I blushed like a school girl and he saw me. Well hopefully I never see him again and I won't have to explain myself to him. Plus I remembered that Josselyn was coming home tomorrow so I needed to get my house back into shape. As I was cleaning the house as quickly as I could I could hear a faint knock at the front door. I walked to the front door and opened my front door but when I got there no one was there, only a piece of paper. I looked up and looked around but no one was walking away or looking my way.

Hannah's Letter:

Hello, you don't know my name but I did see you looking at me. That is not why I am writing this letter though, my mother and father would like to invite you to a housewarming, if you will be present please rsvp before Thursday.

RSVP phone number: 3778139925
Or you can introduce yourself and rsvp that way. My name is Austin Jacob's, and my parents name are Kayla and Marcus Jacob's.

This young man actually wrote a hand written note, but what is actually bad is he saw me looking at him. Man I need to pull myself together I'm still married technically until the divorce is finalized.
I called the number and rsvp that I would be there. I have to show that I am a great neighbor. I finished up the last touch ups of cleaning and then went to bed ready to see my beautiful daughter.

Okay so that is my first chapter please critique my work and let me know if I should continue. Love you guys and thank you for reading!