MATT GRAY'S APARTMENT
"Do you ever wear a shirt?" Sarah
asks.
"I wasn't really expecting visitors
at 8:15 on New Year's morning," Matt
says, wincing at the snappish tone
in her voice.
"Sorry," she says, pushing her way
into the apartment. Baby Victoria,
looking as tired as Matt, lets out a
gurgle as she is hurried inside in her mother's arms.
"I just needed to see you," Sarah
continues. "I needed to ... I don't know, talk to someone, or something.
I hardly slept a minute last night. I was just rolling around, thinking--"
"Back up," Matt says. He closes the
door. "Start at the beginning. What's going on?"
"The party last night ..." She shakes
her head and momentarily closes her eyes. "It was a nightmare."
"What happened?"
"Brent -- he -- The thing is, it
wasn't even that bad for most of the night. We actually had a pretty okay
time. I was worried that he was going to act distant with me or something,
but everything was actually fine. Molly
didn't even get in the way ...
although I guess she didn't have to do anything."
"So what was the bad part?"
"At midnight. Brent and I went to
kiss, and ... all of a sudden he stopped and said he couldn't do it. I
dragged him outside to talk about it and he just drops this bomb
on me that our marriage has to end."
"Whoa," Matt manages as the news
sinks in. "Wow. I-I'm sorry."
"So am I," Sarah mutters, turning
her eyes down to Victoria. "Sorry that I let it come to this -- sorry that
I let her do this to me."
"Her?" Matt asks, although he has
a bad feeling that he knows where this is going.
"Molly." Sarah falls quiet for a
moment. "She's the one who did this. She's the reason Brent thinks we can't
make our marriage work."
"Did he say that?"
"He didn't have to. I could tell."
She balls up her free fist and raises it slightly. "Damn her. She did this
... and I'm not going to let her get away with it."
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