Promise To A Brother

Chapter 22

Chapter 22

Lisa's POV

The next couple of weeks, Happy has still been a little distant. Distant to the point that he doesn't even touch me. We have always had a pretty healthy sex life but now it is non-existent. He won't even look at me. I get up and do my normal morning routine of getting the twins changed and fed and making breakfast for Happy. "Morning." I say as he comes into the kitchen and all I get is a grunt. Finally having enough I asked him "What's going on Happy?" He just looks at me and says "Nothing. I gotta go." He kisses the twins and walks out the door without so much as a word. Now I know something is up. So, I call the only one that I know that knows everything that is happening with everyone. Gemma. I call her and asked her to come over.

An hour later, Gemma and I are sitting at the kitchen table and she asked "Now I know you didn't ask me over just to look at me. Talk." When I look at her, she can see something is wrong. "What's going on, Lisa?" she asked. "I don't know. Happy won't talk to me. He won't touch me and he won't look at me. I asked him this morning what was going on and he said nothing and took off. I don't want to be here if he doesn't want us here." I tell her. "What are you going to do?" she asked. "I think I'm going to go back to Tacoma for a couple of weeks and clear my head. Maybe the space will help him figure out if he wants me or not." I tell her. "You know he won't let that happen. Look, I will take the kids tonight. Talk to him. Don't let him just walk away. Make him talk." she tells me. I help her pack up the twins and she heads home with them.

That night, Happy comes home and heads straight to the shower. He doesn't look at me and doesn't even look for the kids. Coming out of the shower, I am sitting on the bed and I say. "We need to talk." He just looks at me and when I look in his eyes, I see it. Guilt. Standing up, I asked him "What did you do?" He looked down again and I finally yelled "What. Did. You. Do?" He finally speaks "I fucked up." I look at him and asked. "What do you mean, you fucked up? Happy, I swear to fucking God that if you fucked around on me, I will leave right fucking now." I tell him. "No. Baby. I didn't fuck around. But I lost my wedding ring." he tells me. "What? That's it? Happy. We can replace the ring or fuck, even get it tattooed on you. Is that why you have been avoiding me?" I asked. "Yeah. I know you wanted me to wear a wedding ring and I took it off at the shop working on a cage and couldn't find it." he tells me. "Happy. Whether you wear that ring or not, doesn't change our vows. The ring can be replaced. I love you Hap. Don't ever shut down again on me okay?" He looks at me and nods his okay. "I thought you didn't want me anymore. I thought that I did something wrong." I tell him looking down at my hands. "No, baby. You're perfect." he tells me before he kisses me and we start to make up for the days we missed.

The next morning, Happy heads to work and I head to Gemma's to get the twins. "Everything okay?" Gemma asked me. "Yeah. He thought I would be mad because he lost his wedding ring somewhere at the shop." I told her. "I told him it could be replaced or tattooed and that I thought he didn't want me anymore." I told her. "Well, I have a confession. That might have been my fault." she tells me. Getting up from the chair at the table, she walks to her purse and pulls Happy's wedding ring out of her pouch. "You have his ring? How?" I asked. "I saw him take it off and knew that he would end up losing it so I put it in my purse and planned to give it back to him but then things went to shit and it slipped my mind. I'm sorry Sweetheart." She tells me. "That's okay. Now I get to surprise him with it." I tell her and start planning my surprise.