Alone
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Ashleigh gathered her nerves and decided to break the silence with a text to confirm that she wasn't angry. To restore their normalcy.
what do you want to do for dinner?
She stared at it for a bit, wondering if she should add a heart or a smiley face. She shook her head and hit send.
She decided to take a hot shower while she waited. Something to freshen up after a day spent cleaning and stressing out. Ashleigh grabbed her favorite lavender scented body wash and turned the water hot enough to make her skin red.
She exited the shower to a steam filled bathroom and took a look at her messages. The text showed read but no messages back. A tear started to well up in her eyes.
Was Patrick not coming home? Was he not coming back to her?
Ashleigh thought about calling her best friend Stephanie to talk it out but the last time she had talked about their fights with someone else Patrick accused her of over dramatizing the situation and turning get friends against him. Against them.
Ashleigh remembered what he'd said when she told Steph about a fight shortly after they had been married.
"They're never going to like me if you tell them things like that. They're going to want us to break up. Plus that's not fair that they're only getting your side of the story."
She took a deep breath and decided to just make a sandwich for dinner. She would call Steph if he hadn't come home by tomorrow.
But she was sleeping in the bed tonight. With the dog, wine, and the cheapest rom-com she could find.
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