“Love>Everythingelse”

INSPIREDBYSOUND: “CARE” — Sonder (Treatment).

ADJACENTTOTHEKING.
Aug 27, 2017 · 4 min read

He sits down in the bathroom riddled with regret. She’s been lying to him. He is confused. He cant fathom it. “If she can lie about this, she can lie about anything…” he thinks. He begins to fade out of reality…tormenting himself with the thought of her in bed with another man at this very moment. The blazing thunder, accompanied by the flooding rain outside doesn’t compare to the flaming rage he is containing. He silently pleads for an explanation far from his deepest worries. Short of convention, he has set the tone of his confrontation towards her when she comes home. He’s made them dinner for two, with all her favorite food, wine and other goodies. As he maintains his frustration and anger, he hears the clicking of her heels, followed by the jingle of her keys. He pours the rose petals in the bath followed by the rosé in her cup. She walks through the door in a skin tight dress, six inch heels and a piece of chinchilla caressing her shoulders. She doesn’t recognize the atmosphere that she has arrived to. She hears slow alluding music in the background. She attempts to slip out of her attire quickly, when suddenly he walks in. “Six inch killaaa…” he exclaims. He wraps his arms around her. His greeting and embrace mask his true intention to freeze her in her current state. He feels her discomfort. Whatever room there was to lie has now been stripped by his embrace and direct eye contact. His grin gleams over her as she laughs nervously. “Hey baby…what’s the occasion?” The tone of her voice low in that moment. Her body language emitting the shame she so desperately tries to hide. She kisses him, in an attempt to save face and then begins to play with his shirt to avoid eye contact. “You baby…YOU” he continues in sarcasm. If I didn’t know any better, I would have thought you knew what I was up to, coming in all dressed up like this” He says sarcastically. “Guess we were both trying to surprise each other…” he laughs arrogantly at his loaded entendre. “You did all this for me babe?!” She responds continuing to laugh nervously, still avoiding eye contact. “Eh, heh… yeah… well no… I wish I knew… but I just got carried away this morning… uhm…getting dressed” she says. He becomes silently enraged as he pulls away from her. “Why is she lying?!” He thinks. “There’s no way around this now…How can she still keep this going?…” “You got carried away pairing six inch heels and a chinchilla to work?…” His tone now interrogating. “Well no… babe…listen, let me go change into something more comfortable… I don’t want to ruin all this effort you put in for us tonight…” she hurriedly inched out of the small space they were having their exchange, as though she were escaping an episode of claustrophobia. He could see how heavy the guilt of her actions was weighing in on her. He couldn’t understand her, but he couldn’t help that he still loved her and while these separate entities stirred a pot of complexity, he couldn’t stop himself from feeling both. “Babe…” she says. He attempts to hide his pain as his pride won’t let him show it… “Yeah” he caustically responds. “I just want you to know that… that I love you so much…” she says. He could see that whatever she was hiding, she couldn’t bring herself to say it. It wasn’t that she thought that she could challenge his intellectual capacity to recognize the truth. It was genuinely hurting her to know that she couldn’t because she was ashamed. Though still hurt, there was slight relief. “I love you so much more baby…” he said. It was like he had been holding it in. Like he had finally taken his first breath after the suffocating torture he had emotionally endured, rattling with the potential idea and moment of doubt that his beloved had actually lied to him. That she was seeking pleasure elsewhere. He knew her, & although she couldn’t tell him what it was, knowing that she couldn’t, and not that she wouldn’t was enough. He knew that she could never bring herself to hurt him. “Baby you have no idea how much I love you…” he said. She really made him weak. He never showed his emotions publicly but for her, he did. He wanted everyone to know that she belonged to him. She made him do many things he never thought he could. He kissed her on the forehead, tracing his kisses all over her face until his lips touched hers. They began to kiss aggressively. She had pushed him on the bed seated up. He began to grab and aggressively squeeze her, thrusting her in an upward, lower position repeatedly while on top of him. They began to breathe aggressively into each other as they reached for more kisses from the other. He began tracing his lips down to her neck and then to her breasts, taking his time to take all of her in. Her moans — -soft and quiet whispers, became pitchier as he entered her. Whatever negativity clouded them earlier, had immediately disappeared and was now replaced with their passionate love for one another. She taught him to love like this and he didn’t believe he could find another. He had hurt her many times before, but her unwavering discernment, endless and unconditional love kept them going. She accepted him when he didn’t accept himself — -she saw his light before he even could. She had seen his potential. He couldn’t forget that. If she was willing to forgive him, he would do the same for her, he thought. The rain had cooled down, now just slight drizzling tapping on the ceiling of their bedroom. He firmly wrapped himself around her, unwilling to let go and confirming what she had known all along…that she was his.

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