Secret Miracle

One

Maggie, dressed in a long dress and denim jacket, walked down to the beach and met her husband on the bright sunny day with the crashing beach waves hitting the summer bay beach. With a look of panicky, agitated, and nervous frightfulness as she approached her husband.

Ben returned from the beach waves, in nothing other than his red beach shorts and started to speak to his wife; "It's a nice surprise!" 

She playfully began to speak back to her husband "Not a bad view either." 

He leaned towards her with his wet-through body as the two begin to get closer before he kissed his wife lovingly on the lips.

Maggie playfully begin to push her husband away from her as the salty sea water began to muster her dress wet. "You're soaking!" She said as he began to smirk with that sexy look in his eye.

"Why don't we go home and get out of these wet clothes..." Ben seductively said towards his wife.

"So cheesy," Maggie spoke as she knew what he was trying to do, whilst Marco dressed in dark blue denim jeans and a grey v-neck T-shirt and his signature army green jacket on top.

Maggie's mood began to change as she noticed Marco walking towards her and Ben. She sarcastically smiled towards Marco and began to zone out of the conversation.  She began to get flustered and tried to escape from the conversation with the brother about the blackmailed investment she was making with Ben to his father's, now Marco's business.

Maggie began to walk away from her husband and her ex one-night stand, as she filled with regret as she knew that twenty-two years ago she should have told Ben of her story about herself with Marco. 

It started with her break up with Ben, that she thought that she was through with Ben, and at 19 years old, she did something stupid and slept with Marco on a one night stand trying to forget about how much she loved Ben and what had gone wrong. She knew as she first laid eyes on her ex-boyfriend's brother that night that she instantly regretting going into that room with Marco. She knew. She knew that she didn't want to break Ben's heart. She knew she had to tell him.

All this entered her head as he began to seduce his way back into their lives, and she gives up her chance twenty two years ago, she knew that she couldn't just stand there and be happy, she began to think of how to get out this situation and the only person who knew about it was Roo, she decided to get out of there. 

As they talked more and more about the business investment she spoke"it's not for me." as she spoke about not wanting to hear about the works of the investment and how they were going to make money on the return.

"I've got a couple of errands to get through before dinner." Maggie defensively uttered as she began to leave.

"Okay, I'll tell you about them when I get home then," Ben said as she looked away from him and started to walk away from him and his brother.

She agreed and walked off the beach, and towards anywhere, which would get her away from Marco and Ben, she couldn't think of what could happen all those years ago.

...

She walked back to the house and began to fiddle with the food in the fridge that she had just bought debating in her mind what she wanted to eat and make.

"Hi, your home early" Maggie smiled as her face lit up with happiness as she saw her husband, but became saddened as she saw and heard Marco entering the home that she and Ben had bought a few years ago.

"I felt bad that you were missing the talk so I figured we could do the talk over dinner," Ben vocalized as he tried to make an effort with his wife.

"Always looking out for you, isn't he."Marco slyly directed to Maggie.

Ben continued explaining why he and Marco had come back to the house, "It's a big thing you should be a part of every step." Maggie began to look towards the food that she laid on onto the counter and she looked back towards Ben that smiled as he looked at his brother as he uttered: "Marco was saying how excited mum and dad were excited by it all."

"Well, I'd hate to break up the party but I only bought for two," Maggie said as she tried to get Marco to leave.

Marco trying to reluctantly not leave the house and tried to continue to stand a little longer in the company of his brother and his wife said "I don't eat much anyway."

"Yeah, yeah we'll make it work." Ben convincingly tried to get Maggie to let Marco stay and for them to discuss the plan for the investment.

"Let's, let's do it another time after we sign" Maggie suggested and pointed to Marco as she tried to bypass Ben and this discussion of the investment with Marco in the room.

Marco accepted defeat and began to suggest to his brother that he should leave and began to speak "No worries, I'll just grab something from Salt, I guess."

Marco and Ben uttered their final words to one another as he began to leave the house, Ben said bye to his brother and turned towards his wife questioning what she was doing: "Do you want to tell me about what that was about."