Love's Crazy Twists (5 page)

              “No, that doesn’t give you the right for any damn thing! Yeah, OK, you caught me cheating on you, are you happy?” he started. “But this is between me and you. Leave Chelsea out of it. None of this is her fault.” he turned to Chelsea. “I think you’d better leave. You know, before it gets too out of hand.”

              Chelsea nodded. “OK, should I call you later?”

              “No! No you shouldn’t call him later! If you call him again, or if I hear about you so much as taking to him again, I can assure you that you’ll get more than a broken nose!” Julie yelled at her.

              Matt interceded. “No, Chelsea. Don’t call me. I am sorry that this happened like it did. But, um, don’t call me again.”

              Chelsea, who looked really hurt, yelled, “You bastard! I believed you when you said you were leaving her and I believed it when you said that you loved me. I even believed it when you said that you would rather marry me than her any day! I can’t believe you! And you know what? I won’t call you...ever!” She walked by Matt and slapped him across the face. “Asshole,” she said as she walked out the door.

              Julie ran to the kitchen and got into the grocery bag and grabbed something that Matt couldn’t see and ran onto the porch and threw it at Chelsea. It whizzed by her head. Then she threw the second thing, but Chelsea had gotten into the car just as a jar of spaghetti sauce smashed on the sidewalk where she had just been. As Chelsea pulled out she gave Julie the finger. That only angered her to a higher extent.

              Then Julie went back into the apartment to continue fighting with Matt. She really wanted to kill them both. She knew it wasn’t Matt’s fault alone, but still he knew that he was engaged and that he was supposed to be faithful to her. And he wasn’t. Yet, Chelsea knew that Matt and Julie were engaged so she should have left him alone, but she didn’t. And so Julie held them both responsible to ruining her life.

              “Jules, baby. I am so sorry.” Matt began pleading for forgiveness. “It didn’t mean a thing. I don’t even know how she got here.”

              “Yeah. Nice try, buddy!” Julie snipped.

              “Julie, babe, you gotta believe me. I love you.” He lowered his head, in attempt to look remorseful for what he had done. “Come here.” He held out his arms to hold her. “I love you.”

              “Matt, what do you take me for? Do you really think that I am that stupid?” She pulled away as he reached out to grab her arm. “Don’t touch me!” she yelled. “And look...” She pointed to the kitchen table. “I was going to make you dinner. But no, you had to ruin it all. You had to throw away our whole relationship, a serious, six-year long relationship! And for what? Chelsea? I hope she was worth it! I really do!” she continued yelling. Matt reached to her and again she pulled away. “What were you thinking? Huh?”

              “I don’t know. I guess I wasn’t thinking.” He took a step towards her. “I am sorry. I really am. I love you. You have to know that.”

              “Well, at least I thought that...until now.”

              “Jules, that isn't. You know that I want to marry you more than anything else in the world.”

              “Really? You could have fooled me,” she told him.

              “I do, I really do. I know what I did was wrong. But it didn’t mean a thing. It was just sex. And it wasn’t even that great,” he confessed.

              “Good! I hope that it was the worst sex you ever had. That way you would have lost it all for nothing!” Julie laughed. “And if you really wanted to marry me, I think you should have thought of that before you had sex with my ex-friend! I still can’t believe I finally caught you. How long has it been going on? And I want the truth!”

              “Jules, that was a one-time thing, I swear,” he pleaded.

              “One time, huh? Why did she want to call you later? If it was a one-time thing, why did you tell her you loved her, and that you wanted to leave me and marry her?” she asked. “Huh? What about all of that?” She pushed against his chest and then threw her hands up in despair.

              “I don’t know how she ended up here. I promise you, I didn’t plan on it.”

              “Well yeah, that makes me feel better. I didn’t plan on it.” She paused, and then remembered something. “OK, then, tell me,
if
you can, why was the phone unplugged?”

              “What? The phone wasn’t unplugged!” He walked to the phone cord, and it was unplugged. “Jules, I didn’t do that. I swear.”
              “Yeah, whatever.” She turned to go.

              “Julie, where are you going?” he asked.

              “I am leaving. I figured that since you just cheated on me, I would go out and have sex with someone else to celebrate my return to the single life. You know, since we are through.” She smiled at Matt and turned to walk away. “You know I thought about calling Shane. Since you always thought I was sleeping with him, and now that I am single...I can!” She laughed.

              She walked out onto the porch and shut the door. She could still hear Matt begging her for her forgiveness, and she had to leave. If he ever found out about last night with Shane, this situation would be a lot worse. She got in her car and sped away. Not sure what she was going to do about Matt, or Shane for that matter. She loved Matt, didn’t she? She had spent the last six years of her life with him and look what was happening now. She cheated on him and he cheated on her all in the same night. Maybe she should just forgive Matt and try to repair their relationship. But what if he found out about Shane? Would he be as forgiving? Maybe she should just come clean and confess her infidelity and hope that they could still move on. Tears welled up in her eyes and id didn’t take long before she was crying. Tears falling from her eyes and rolling down her cheeks. She was so hurt by what she had just seen and done. She was feeling alone and abandoned, like an abused puppy. She was emotionally exhausted and just wanted to get home and crawl back into her big, warm bed.

              She pulled in her parking spot outside of her country home. She walked up onto the porch, put the key in the door and went inside. Once she was inside, she realized that she didn’t remember a thing about driving home. She didn’t remember of it, stop signs, making turns or even pulling up the driveway. She walked through the kitchen and glanced at the answering machine and noticed that it wasn’t blinking.
That is strange
, she thought.
I was sure that there would have been at least a dozen messages from Matt.
She got into her cozy pajamas and crawled into bed. She was asleep before her head hit the pillow.

              A little while later there was a knock on the door. She vaguely even heard it since she was in such a deep sleep. She didn’t want to get up and answer it. It probably wasn’t anyone she wanted to see anyway. The knocking continued. She finally got up and staggered, half asleep, to the door. She opened the door to find the flower delivery guy with two dozen red roses for her. She signed for them and apologized for taking so long to answer the door. The delivery guy left and she set the roses on the table while she looked for a vase big enough to accommodate them. They were very beautiful. But who sent them? She looked for a card and couldn’t find it in the box anywhere. As she was putting the flowers in the vase, there came another knock at the door.

              “Who can that be?” she said. She opened the door and the delivery guy was back.

              “Can I help you?” she asked.

              “I’m sorry, ma’am, but I found this in the car,” he said handing her a small white envelope. “It must have fallen off the box when I was getting it out of the car.”

              She took the envelope. “Well, thank you for bringing it back. I couldn’t figure out who they were from.” she laughed.

              “Well, you’re welcome, ma’am. Have a good day,” he said and walked away.

              Julie couldn’t wait to open the card. She knew they couldn’t possibly be from Matt. He would never do anything like that even after what had happened with Kelly. She opened the envelope and slowly pulled the card out. It was a plain little card with the words “Just For You” on top of it. Then scribbled on it was the following:

Jules,

I am sorry, baby. I love you so much

If you never forgive me, I’ll understand.

But I truly am sorry.

Love,

Matt

              Julie’s mouth dropped open and her eyes filled with tears. They really were from Matt. She couldn’t believe it. Maybe he really was sorry, maybe it was just a one-time thing, but he still cheated on her. That point just couldn’t be overlooked. Then again, just because he didn’t know about her infidelity didn’t mean that it didn’t happen. She did still love Matt and he hurt her really badly but if he found out about her and Shane it would hurt him just as bad. She decided right then and there that would try to work it out with Matt and hope for the best. She would, however, need time to learn to trust him again.

              She looked at the roses and then read the card once more. Her tears began to fall. She really did love him, it was wrong of her to sleep with Shane. She sat down on the couch and buried her face in her hands; and cried.

              Ring! Ring! The phone rang. The sound of it startled her and she jumped up and ran to the phone. Still crying and upset she answered it.

              “Hello?” she asked softly.

              “Baby, I am so, so sorry,” Matt said, sounding as if he had been crying too. “Julie, can you ever forgive me? I love you so much. If there is anything I can do I will do it. Anything." he pleaded.

              “Do you know how much you’ve hurt me today? I never thought you’d ever hurt me.” She paused. “And I never thought that it could hurt this bad.” She began crying even harder than before.

              “Jules, babe, I am really truly sorry. Can I come see you? We can talk about this when I get there. OK, what do you say?” he asked.

              “Matt, I don’t know if I can see you right now, I want to forgive you. I want to believe you when you say it was a one-time thing. I really do. But after walking in on you and hearing you moaning with pleasure for someone that wasn’t me, I don’t think I can even look at you right now.” she told him.

              “OK, Hun, I understand.” he replied sadly.

              “Do you? Do you really?” she asked sarcastically.

              “Yes, I do,” he started, “If I would have walked in on you doing some guy I probably wouldn’t want to look at you either. Actually, I don’t think I’d ever forgive you.” he said point blank.

              She couldn’t believe her ears! Usually this kind of conversation ended with him saying, “Have a nice life!” “OK,” she said. “Maybe you do understand. I am going to go now. I’ll call you later or tomorrow, I’ve got a lot of thinking to do,” she told him. “So, bye.”

              “OK. But first, could you do me a favor?” he asked cautiously.

              “What?”

              “Just remember that I love you with all my heart and that I am really sorry. I never ever wanted to hurt you.” he told her.

              “OK, I’ll try to remember that.” she said. “Bye.”

              “Bye.” he said and they both hung up.

              What would happen now? She thought. What would she tell Shane? Her head simply spun. She didn’t know why she didn’t think of it sooner. She picked up the phone and dialed.

              “Hey!” she said. “What are you doing right now?”

              “Julie? Is that you?” the voice asked.

              “Of course it’s me, Jen! Who did you think it was?” She joked.

              “I’m not doing anything, why? What’s up?” Jen asked.

              “I thought that if you weren’t doing anything, we could go grab a drink...” she paused, “or two.” She laughed.

              “OK, sounds like a plan,” Jen agreed. “Where do you want to go?”

              “How about you meet me at The Stomping Ground?” she asked.

              “OK. Good deal. See you in a bit,” Jen said.

              “Great! See ya then. Bye.” They both hung up.

PART 2

CHARITY & JEFF

              Julie went to the bathroom and looked in the mirror. Her green eyes were bloodshot and puffy from all the crying she had been doing. Her hair was just hanging there like a shag carpet. And she definitely needed to find some clothes to wear; she certainly couldn’t go in sweats! She went to her closet to find something that would make her feel sexy and desirable. Then as she looked through several smutty outfits, she changed her mind and wanted to look casual yet comfy. Nothing to dressy. She settled for a pair of loose fitting jeans and a low cut black top with short sleeves. The shirt wasn’t tight it merely accentuated the positive - mainly her breasts.

              Back to the bathroom to apply her makeup and try to do something with her hair. After the finishing touches of her makeup were done, she decided that she would just pull her hair up in a twist and clip it to her head. It was cute and she was satisfied with her appearance. She looked at the clock; it was time to go meet Jen. And off she went.