A Marriage of Inconvenience

Private Chambers

The master suite is more than I could have ever dreamed. While most of the furniture is the same white color that has been featured in much of the home. The bedding and many of the pictures along the wall are all varying shades of lavender and a soft purple. The color leaves a welcome feeling when paired with the stark white furniture and carpet.

The attached bathroom is everything that the guest bathroom was not. Where the guest bathroom had the bare minimum while still being opulently put together, the master bathroom was borederline excessive but at this point I am definitely not complaining.

The toilet is in one corner with a little half wall surrounding it for privacy from spouses when they are both in the bathroom at the same time. There is a large waterfall shower that has dark grey tile surrouding it on all sides including the flooring. The sinks are jack and jill sinks with a mirror that spans the entire wall above the counter space.

Then, my new favorite part of the entire place, is a walk in garden tub. The tub itself is large enough to almost be considered a hot tub with a huge window behind it showing the forest surrounding the property. We are luckily up a few stories so nobody would be able to see me from there unless I were to jump up and down naked and screaming for attention which is definitely not in my near future plans.

I could honestly see myself spending a lot of time in this tub as my pregnancy progresses and I find myself in need of relaxing more and more. Some of the penthouse almost seemed excessive and even though the bathroom could arguably be the most excessive, I could never turn down a tub like this one. I already find myself craving to take a bath in it with one of the many soaks that my sister has already purchased for me.

"You really outdid yourself. I do not think that you could have found anywhere more perfect for me." I tell her turning towards her.

I find that there are slight tears in my eyes as I become overwhelmed with my new life. I actually get to live in this amazing place without a husband controlling everything that I do. I have despised and feared him for too long to sit around and mourn anything that I left behind. This new life of mine is already shaping to be more than I could have ever hoped for.

"I hope I did. After all, you deserve it more than anybody I know. I cannot imagine what it was like being in a marriage like that. To have gone through it for 5 whole years just to make sure that your family was going to be taken care of, well that is worth more than I can ever give back to you. You are still going to have to work hard but I wanted to make your transition out here as smooth as I possibly could." She explains with matching tears clinging to her lashes.

"It does not matter what it was like anymore. It is over now. It is time for us to begin working on our future instead of living in the past. For now, let us go and relax for the rest of the evening." I tell her with a hug.

She laughs as she leads me towards the living room. As soon as I sit on the couch she hits a button on the remote and a television stand slides out of the floor while surround sound speakers appear from behind some artwork on the floor. I am beyond surprised to see all of the modern technology come out of hiding.

"We can watch almost any movie ever made in here. I thought that it might be a nice way for us to unwind and get our minds off of recent events." Sadie says to me.

I agree with a laugh as she turns everything on and begins to get it set up. When she asks me what we are going to watch I do not hesitate to bring up movie that we both watched often as kids. Since we spent so long apart I am looking forward to us being able to enjoy our past together and not have to worry about my marriage or the future.

"Let's watch Chitty Chitty Bang Bang." I tell her with a smile.

Her answering smile is enough to let me know that I definitely chose correctly. It is a movie that we watched all of the time when we were children and laughed at no matter how many times we watched it. We have always sung along to all of the songs in the movie while bouncing up and down in childish excitement.

"I shouldn't have even bothered asking. Good to know that you never changed too much." She tells me.

Just before the movie starts she runs into the kitchen and throws some popcorn in the microwave. After it finishes popping she pours it into two separate bowls before adding some melted butter and salt to the bowls and handing me one.

When the opening credits start we immediately fall into our old routine of singing along with the movie and even acting out some of the scenes. It is nice to know that some things managed to stay the same after all of this time.

By the time that the movie ended I could already feel my energy waning. Without a word, Sadie begins to clean up from our movie and walks me back towards my room. It is hard to believe that I made it all of these years without her but now that we are back together I am never going to let her get away from me again. From now on, we are going to keep our sister bond strong and support each other no matter what.