One Last Pull for this Knot to Break

[sleeper]

WIERDNESS

Late yesterday afternoon the X called. I probably shouldn't have answered but I was thinking about her at the moment she called. When I saw her name on the caller ID I laughed on the inside because of the coincidence and answered. I didn't tell her I was thinking about her. There have been numerous times during this mess that we were both thinking about the other or about calling the other when the phone rang. I thought, what's the point?

She asked if I could keep the kids this AM while she worked for a few hours and I agreed. I miss my kids when she has them.

This morning I went over to her house so she could leave kids there with me and go to work. D and I were watching a movie in X's bedroom a couple of hours later when OM let himself in the house. He walked back to the bedroom where we were, grunted a "hello" (we both said "hi"), walked over by the bed we were on and fumbled through a pile of electrical wires until he found his phone charger. After removing his charger from the tangle, he turned and left. Never spoke a word to me or D except for that hello. He didn't seem too happy. I don't know if he was just in a hurry or wasn't happy because I was there or what. It was kinda surreal.

X comes home a couple of hours later. I left quickly after her arrival because I had 30 minutes to be somewhere. I never mentioned OM's visit (or anything else) to her. About 5 minutes later she called me to ask if I was mad at her because I left so quickly. I told her, "No, I'm in a hurry to get to ______."