’ He set down his briefcase and took off his jacket. Draping it over a hook near the door he approached her. ‘You never believed me when I told yo... I never cheated on you.’ She stood glaring at him with her hands on her hips. ‘That’s because every time you return from one of your business trips, you reek of cheap perfume. What am I supposed to think?’ Frustration and anger consumed him. ‘Goddammit! I’ve never cheated on you! Why can’t you get that through your head?’ ‘Oh really? Then who was. I did the final washing and drying, and looked at myself in the mirror. I had successfully went from dark brown to slightly-lighter-than-dark-brown!I threw open the door to declare how proud I was, and found Kelly on my couch, video game controller in one hand and the other in a bag of chips. It was her shirt that was on the floor; she was sitting there in her tan-colored bra and jeans! "Your stats suck." she plainly stated, pointing to the screen. I did my absolute best to pay no attention to. On top of that, it was raining making the driving even worse! As I was bitching about the traffic my phone rang and I took the call on my speakerphone. If was my brother Benny who had heard the news and wanted to make sure we were safe. Benny had just lost his wife less than a year ago and was taking a solo vacation northwest of us.I shared all the gory details of our shitty vacation and the traffic we were stuck in and he said “why don’t you swing west a bit and join me here? I’ve got an extra. This she says is why she does not drive and why she takes the bus.On entering the house the heat washed over me ,wow, its warm in here I remarked,. Please, take of your coat she replied or you wont get the good of it when you go back out. How do you take your coffee she asked , black please I replied. Coming up she said as she disappeared into the kitchen. When she came out of the kitchen with two steaming hot coffees, her parka was gone and I could see how cute she was. We chatted for a while.