PIER 22
"What is wrong with you?"
Matt barks
as he practically drags Sarah
down the pier, away from the scene of the
crime. "That water is freezing!"
"She
deserved it," Sarah spits, rolling
her eyes as she folds her arms in front of her chest.
Matt flashes her a look of utter
disbelief. "No, she didn't! She didn't do anything, Sarah!
Brent asked
you to sign the divorce papers, right? That is not Molly's fault."
He can see the fight brewing in her
face, rumbling just below the surface, but for some reason it doesn't make
it out -- at least, not like that. Instead she lets out a gasping sob.
Matt's words come with great difficulty.
Turning on a dime like this is not easy, especially for him, especially
when she could turn back at any second. "Sarah ... I'm sorry. I know this
has gotta be hard to deal with ..."
"It's impossible!" she cries. "This
is how it's always been. I thought when I married Brent, maybe things would
change, maybe I'd get to live my own life and be my own person and have
things my way. But Molly's still winning, she's still better than me--"
"She is not better than you."
"Then why is he choosing her? Why
wasn't I good enough?"
"You are good enough! It just wasn't
right!" Tentatively he folds her into his arms. She doesn't resist, though
she doesn't make any effort to go to him, either.
"It just wasn't meant to be, that's
all," he says. His rocky voice sounds so serious and very strange in the
chilled air. It's been so long since he had a conversation like this with
anyone.
"This isn't going to happen." She
pulls her arms in tighter, creating even more of a buffer between her body
and Matt's.
"It is happening."
"No. It won't happen. I'm not going
to let them get away with this. I'm gonna stand up for myself ..." The
tears are distorting her words and the sound of it is breaking Matt's heart.
"Don't do this," he pleads quietly.
Unconsciously he pulls her in a bit more firmly. "You can be so much more
than this bitter ex who refuses to let anyone else be happy. You can be
happy regardless of what happens with them. You are so much better than
that."
He feels her wiggling out of his
embrace and for a moment fears that he has said the wrong thing and lost
her entirely. But the look on her face when she pauses to look up at him
tells him that he has her undivided attention. Finally.
"Please, Sarah. Rise above that.
Be the woman I know you're capable of being."
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