Goodbyes…

ROBERT

The sun was setting already when we left the sea dock.

We’d got into my car minutes after leaving the sea harbor, and the second we climbed in, silence befell us.

Before the driver started the Jeep’s ignition, I considered leaving her alone and bidding her goodbye from then on, but I couldn’t.

I still wasn’t ready to let her go and alsoI knew deep within me that it would only be gentlemanly of me to follow her home and drop her safely at the motel.

Fuck being gentlemanly. I didn’t want to let Renee go. I’d never felt this way with anyone before, and the fact that Renee was the first woman to bring out these emotions baffled me all the more.

Somewhere within me, I wondered if Renee was my soulmate, my better half, the woman I was destined to be with for life. Why hadn’t I met her all these years if she was the one then?

‘She’s years younger than you, silly. When would you have met her if not now?’ My subconscious chimed in, dropping the obvious rhetorical questions, and I