The sound of unwanted silence

Gavin had not expected anyone in his house.

Let alone Jessie.

From what he remembered, she was living with Greg. She was in his arms last night. She came to the hospital with him.

But when he saw her sleeping on his couch, his first instinct was to clean up since he looked like a mess.

While in the bathroom, he couldn’t stop wondering why she came.

“Did she come to get her things?”

“Is she moving out already?”

He hurried out of the bathroom, his heart filled with thoughts and questions.

It was until he saw the shocked expression on Jessie’s face that he realized he had been asking the wrong questions.

The right one was… “what if she had come to talk things out?”

“Shit.” He cussed, as he entered the living room.

The brown envelope in Jessie’s hand contained the document that would their marriage and even though he wanted to take it from her and rip it into pieces, he held his cool.

He had been pathetic for the last four days, he refused to continue in that way.

“Thanks for clean