I'm sorry (A James Hetfield story)

The Memory Remains

the next morning, it was 8am, I guess I slept hard last night, or early this morning, I rolled over on my side, I saw Denise was not by my side, she must be up and doing stuff, I smelled eggs and bacon, yeah, I love this woman already, I got out of bed and put my boxers on with my jeans, I walked into the kitchen, so see Denise looking breakfast for us, aw she didn't have to do that, I was going to, oh well tomorrow I will, Denise turned around, when she heard me walk in, I sat down at the table, in front of me, was a hot cup of coffee with milk, I got up and walked over to the kitchen, where Denise still was, and I just stared at her for a few moments.

"What is it?" Denise turned to look at me, while putting the food on the plates.

"Sit, let me do that." I wanted to help her; Denise has done so much for me.

"Okay, if you insist." I smiled at Denise, she went to go sit down at the table, I walked over to the table, with the food and placed it down on the table, I sat down next to Denise and smiled.

"Oh, and good morning." I leaned over and kissed Denise.

"Thank you and good morning." Denise smiled at me; I smiled back.

"So, about last night." I'm not going to take it back, but we need to talk.

"What about last night? I thought it was magical." Well yeah, it was.

"I still want to marry you, but maybe we should wait to tell people, after all I'm still technically married, and I don't want people to get the wrong idea, and I think you should wait to wear the ring out in public too, I'm not trying to hide you, I just want to protect you." Just being honest.

"I understand James, really." Denise leaned over and kissed me lightly.

"Thanks, so I was thinking, we need to look at houses, I was thinking a three bedroom, with a four bathroom house, with a four garage and a full basement, what do you think?" I know it sounds like a lot, but in the end, it will be great to have some new space and to make the home mine, well for Denise as well, but I think it will all work out just fine, hopefully.

"I think, that sounds great, just give us some time, after the divorce, everything will level out." Denise is so smart, she gets me, and I get her, Denise is so cool about this.

"Yeah, I was thinking, after breakfast, we could go to a car show or something." Now that is something that Fran, never wanted to do with me, she wasn't against me going to car shows, I think she just thought they were boring as hell, but I think they weren't, but I think Denise will like it more than me, I think I defiantly found my match for life.

"Yeah sounds cool, I would love to go with you." Cool, soon after we ate breakfast, we cleaned up the kitchen and took a shower, and got ready, we ended up taking my car, the other cars were still at Fran and my house, but not for long, I say, the whole divorce process will take up to a year or two, depending on how things go, but it should go smoothly, then on to my plans with Denise.