PIER 22
"Forget about Molly for a minute,
will you?" Brent snaps. "This has nothing to do with her!"
Sarah's eyes widen with outrage.
"I wish you would stop insisting that! This has everything to do with her!"
"Look, Sarah," Brent says, trying
to control himself. It seems as though he can't even talk to her rationally
anymore and the only other instinct he has is to shake her into listening
to him. He has to ball up his hands into fists, one still clutching the
rumpled divorce papers, to keep from doing that.
"Say Molly didn't exist," he says
as calmly as he can. "Or say she was off living someplace else. Our marriage
would still need to end."
"No, it wouldn't, because it never
would have gotten so crazy in the first place!"
"That's not true."
"You don't know that, do you? No!
Because she's been a factor from day one. You don't know what it would
like between us if there was no Molly."
As much as he would prefer not to,
he has to admit that is true. "You're right ... but still -- this wasn't
meant to be. I think we both have to realize that by now. You have to let
go."
Her hand flies out and strikes him
hard in the chest. "Don't you dare start talking down to me! Not after
you led me on for so long and made me think there was actually a chance
for us!"
"I wanted there to be a chance for
us," Brent says raggedly. "I tried. But too much has happened ..."
"She happened! It's always
about her, and she always wins. And she's going to again!" Sarah's voice
cracks, giving way to a sob that is followed quickly by another. Her body
begins to shake, and she folds her arms in front of her and drops her head.
It is too much for Brent to watch.
They have spent so little time together lately that he has almost forgotten
how fragile she can become at the drop of a hat, the strong faccade swept
away into thin air with hardly any prompting at all. To think that he did
this ...
Suddenly his only option is to do
something. His arms reach out and draw her in, and the forgotten familiarity
of the way she feels in his embrace comes back in an instant.
"I'm sorry," he whispers as he pulls
her closer. At first she is tense to his touch, but then she melts right
into him.
He feels her begin to pull away,
but instead of extracting herself from his hold, she backs up just enough
to look up into his face.
"Brent ..."
She raises herself up onto her toes
and, in the blink of an eye, her mouth is crushed against his in a kiss
like it has been so many times before.
END OF EPISODE #234
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