The Assistant: 3

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billie pov

flashback

i'm on the way to my parents house. my vision is blurry due to the tears that are nonstop. everytime i wipe them away it comes back even more heavier.

i've been through a divorce and plenty of breakups but none of them ever hurt like this. this was a new pain.

i've spent almost two decades with this woman and it's over. the argument was something we've never had. yes we've had bad arguments before but that one was the most horrible one ever.

i find myself speeding and lost in thought as i drive in silence, the only sound in the car is the constant sniffing and random sobs.

before i could realize it, i was speeding through a stop sign and i didn't turn my wheel fast enough before i flew through the bridge and my headspace came back to reality.

it was too late then.

flashback over

everything hurts and the constant beeping of my heart monitor is pissing me off. i open my eyes slowly and my parents sit there watching me.

"fuck"  i say looking down at my legs seeing a cast on my right leg

"you forgot to hang up the phone when we talked, something told me to stay on and not hang up" my mom say

"oh" i say before my head starts throbbing with an unbearable pain.

hours later, i'm fighting the sleep from the medicine the doctors gave me. when my eyes are halfway closed i hear the door open and a familiar face walks in before i close my eyes all the way.

when i wake up, i see my wife sitting there and my parents gone. "why are you here?" i immediately ask

"if you don't want me here i can leave, i'm still your wife at the end of the day" she say

"i would rather you not be here. this is all your fault"

"your ability to know when to and not drive is not my fault." she say

"bitch" i mumble

"okay" she shrugs

"i don't want you here. you were quick to end our marriage"

"are you really doing this while you sit there all broken up? you just woke up, rest" she say

"you might try to kill me so i would rather not rest with you here" i say

"if i wanted to kill you i would've been did that" she say

"you're sick"

"hm. funny coming from you" she laughs

"i don't like this. what happened to the aaliyah i knew before a few hours ago and all this went down"

"respectfully, i don't have any respect left for you after what you did. it's clear you didn't respect me so why should i do the same? yes i love you still but respect you? no."

"you're so fucking dramatic. i have told you plenty of times that i don't know where those messages came from"

"do you know how stupid that sounds? it's from your phone, it's clear as day between you two and it's obvious you two fucked."