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Divorce.

He couldn't. He loved her. She was his everything. She kept him going.

But...

Charlie sighed. He was sleeping in his car parked behind a gas station. No one had kicked him out yet.

He was thinking about Selena. And their argument. He said goodbye to her. And he couldn't swallow his pride and go back to her. But he needed her.
So much.

He couldn't divorce her. He wasn't going to put Emily through that. Or put Selena through that. Or himself.

Charlie turned his car radio off and sat in silence. He was going back. To Selena. Now.

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Selena rolled the small pink ball to Emily. Emily picked it up and tossed it way over Selena's head. The two of them were sitting on the hardwood floor and were tossing the ball back and forth.

Selena got to her feet and walked over to where Emily had thrown the ball.

It was under a small coffee table.

There was a picture frame on top of the dark wood table.

It was a picture of Charlie and Selena smiling happily at the camera.

Selena tried to not look at it but she couldn't help it.
She picked it up and looked closely at it.

In the picture, she was wearing jeans overalls and a light pink t shirt underneath. She had her hair down and her curls bouncing all around. She had the necklace Charlie gave her around her neck and her small diamond wedding ring around her finger.

Selena fingered her wedding ringer in real life, with tears in her eyes.
She remembered the day Charlie proposed to her.

She had felt so happy. So free.
Completely different than how she felt now. She felt tired, and sad, and she missed Charlie so much. SO MUCH.
Selena had tears running down her cheeks now.

Charlie.

Her husband. Her true love. Her whole life.

He was gone.

Gone from her. Because of her. And it hurt her.

Selena put her finger on the picture, tracing Charlie's features gently.
His hair that she loved to run her fingers through.
His eyes which looked at her with a look of true love that never changed since the day they met.
His cheeks which she loved to kiss.
His lips which loved to kiss her.

Selena forgot all about the ball.

All she could think about was Charlie.

A how she was going to get him back.