Pretend This didn't Happen

You still love her

Gary had a cigarette outside of the restaurant before getting into the car, "OK buds, I'm getting a damn headache, take me to 7-eleven, I'll get a damn coffee there."

"Yes boss," Claire pulled the car away from the curb "I suppose you can also get something to eat from there too."

"Yeah," Gary admitted "I really don't want to though." Gary explained "the food from these convenience store places is so over processed it might as well be photo copies that we eat and the coffee is to rid me of the headache." Gary sneered "I think not. We'll go to Ikea and get some plates and furnishings, though, I think we should go buy a different vehicle to haul this stuff first after a coffee," Gary suggested "let me get my head on straight first." 

Claire pulled into the 7-eleven parking lot "I'll go get it." Claire offered ejecting her seatbelt "What do you take in it?" Claire remembered "right, I'll be right back" Claire went to get his coffee. While Claire was inside the convenience store a car pulled up beside Gary having his cigarette, a man wearing pantyhose over his face stepped out of the vehicle and ran inside the store waving around a pistol.

"Fuck!" Gary threw out his smoke and walked into the store unnoticed behind the crazed coca-nut, "drop the fucking thing before you hurt yourself." The pantyhose bandit, let's call the idot, turned pointing the gun at Gary about to spout off something stupid when the gun was in Gary's hand and the bandit being held like a duffel bag by his jacket walking to the car where his girlfriend sat in the front seat " get out and open your trunk!" She did as ordered, "get in" she climbed in the back of the trunk, Gary tossed her boyfriend ontop of her, knocking them both unconcious and slammed the trunk before lighting another cigarette and waiting for Claire.

"What was that?" Claire asked.

"A waste of a perfectly good cigarette." Gary thanked Claire for the coffee and took a drink to feel alive. "Let's go get you a truck," Gary paused to growl his dissatisfaction, "no, let's go get me a truck, I am smoking in the damn thing." 

Claire chuckled "OK Boss. Does this mean I get a raise," Claire joked "I mean, this is more than housekeeping, shouldn't I deserve more of a wage?"

"Damn this coffee is hot!" Gary sipped carefully "sure, I'll feed and shelter your child too when it's born."

"You can be a real asshole sometimes you know" Claire said.

"So I've been told," Gary stated "listen Claire, for the first time in my life," Gary sobbed as tears started rolling down his cheeks "I feell completely lost." Claire passed Gary a napkin and he wiped his face "thank you," Gary choked up "I mean," Gary sobbed "dammit, I am just mean." Gary cried.

"It's OK," Claire said softly "I'm sorry buddy." Claire kept driving not knowing at all where they were going.

"Thank you, Claire," Gary's speech shaking "it's that I am just so stubborn and it's my way or the highway." Gary stopped Claire's interuption "something didn't go my way and again I chose the highway taking the maid with me. Do you understand what that looks like?" Gary paused lighting another smoke.

"Yes," Claire admitted "I understand exactly what you mean, I think." After a moment of catching hold of her own emotions "you still love her."

"Yes," Gary gripped the dashboard of the car so tightly the airbags burst causing Claire to crash into the insurance companies office accross the street.