The Last Fall

13

CHERYL's POINT OF VIEW

"Thank you for bringing her over and putting her back to sleep. My apologies for being late." I said as I straightened up the living room as Tony came downstairs.

Tony brought Dana over my house early this morning and he didn't tell me that he was planning on coming around this time.

When he called me, I had to rush from Treys house and come back home.

"No problem..." Tony said as he watched me fix the pillows on the couch. "She went to sleep really fast so....she should be good for a while. You gotta work today?" He asked me.

"Well, I was but I was gonna take off today since you brought her early. Plus, I don't wanna keep bothering Ma when it comes to watching her. I know she needs some time to herself." I said as we both stood there facing each other.

"If she can't watch her. My Mom would gladly watch her for you. You know this..." He reminded me.

"Yeah but...I-...you know that she doesn't like me after what I did..."

"When did she say that?" He asked out of curiosity.

"Never. I just...know."

"I doubt it..." He said as he nodded his head and looked at me.

TONY's POINT OF VIEW

Gosh I want her so badly.
It's hard to stand right in front of her and act as if I still don't have any feelings for her at all.

It's like...the more we are apart- the more beautiful she gets.

Is it a bad thing to get upset just thinking about another man being with her?

However, she has the right to find somebody else but still...

I want her.

However, that wouldn't be good.

"Cheryl, I-...I know that you and I haven't talked about our divorce as much and maybe we should..." I told her as I sat down on the couch. She did the same.

"What about it do you wanna talk about?" She asked as she crossed her legs and looked at me.

"How are you feeling?" I asked as I sat back and placed my hands in my lap.

"Well...I feel a lot of things. I feel guilty over all." She said as she took a deep breath and moved some of her hair out of her face. "Not a day goes by of when I don't...think about it. Sometimes I wish that I could go back and change everything. You didn't deserve that."

I looked at her and noticed that she actually meant it. She did feel bad about her actions.

"Why did you do it?" I asked out of curiosity.

"I guess my feelings for him were still there after all this time. The kiss is what rekindled everything and...from there- it was like a drug. I couldn't stop even if I tried to." She explained as she shifted on the couch a little bit.

"Was I not good enough? Did I make you unhappy?"

"No...you didn't make me unhappy. Yeah, you worked a lot and I got use to that but- over all, you were good enough. You were always good enough. It was just me and my choices that lead to this. None of this is your fault."