One Last Pull for this Knot to Break

[sleeper]

Things were boring for a while but not anymore.

Probably had about a dozen calls today (no joke). I answered most of them but a few I missed because of leaving my phone in the car, etc. There's a bewildered/worried tone in her voice the next time I talk to her after missing one of her calls.

She and OM were at the same church service as me and the kids. It was a standing room only service and after greetings she and OM walked away from me. I didn't mind because one of her female friends who had come over to say hi to both of us stayed and talked to me. She took the kids after church because it was really her time with them and they had two b-day parties to attend. She seemed a little apprehensive about taking them, like it wasn't in her plan. I learned why later.

She called several times in the afternoon between the parties. She told me she was exhausted. She told me she had slept part of the night in her car in her driveway last night. The power was out at her house and the battery backup on the security system ran low and a low battery alarm began. I didn't ask why she didn't go to OM's house (he never lost power as far as I know).

I met her and the kids at the last party when it ended to get the kids. She asked if I had seen the remote to her TV. I told her it was on the nightstand last time I saw it but OM had been to her house since and she might ask him. When I said OM's name she interrupted me by saying, "You mean the butthole?"

I told the kids we needed to walk X to her car. I offered her my arm as she stepped off the curb and she took it. When we got to her car I reached across her to fasten her seatbelt after she sat down. My arm accidently brushed across her boobs (they're bigger than they used to be due to her boobjob). She didn't seem to notice but I sure did.

I took the kids and drove east as she drove alone into the sunset.