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(Lydia)I was in my room washing my makeup off when there was a quiet knock on my door.“Come in,” I said, knowing it was Ruby on the other end.Sure enough, she poked her head in first before entering the room entirely.Ruby leaned against the wall beside the door and stared at me. I couldn’t see her but I could feel her eyes on me. I knew what she wanted to ask and it hurt my heart that I had to lie to her, but I gave Jack my word and until then I would hold off all information from her.“What did you and Jack talk about?” she asked, trying to sound nonchalant but I knew her better. “You guys looked like you were arguing about something.”I bit my lips and then faced her with a neutral expression on my face. “I was just talking to him about Thomas. I got some texts from him and he seemed to have been drinking,” I shrugged lightly before continuing on, “You know how I get. I was just ripping one into Jack, telling him that he should watch over Thomas more.”“That’s all?” Ruby asked a

(Lydia)“Thomas,” I started, “Please don’t get me wrong when I say this but I feel like we were far too hasty in getting together. We spent almost four years of our lives away from each other and the moment you gained your memories back, it felt like a switch had been turned on.”Thomas opened his mouth to say something but I stopped him by placing my hand upon his.“Hear me out first, please,” I gently said. He nodded in reply before I continued, “What I mean to say is that we should have taken our time in getting to know each other properly. I know we went to dinner, but is that really enough? I spent four years of my life with the fact that the man I knew had simply vanished from the face of the Earth.”“It must have been so cruel, knowing that I was alive somewhere yet I wasn’t the person you knew,” Thomas whispered, a pained smile on his face.I nodded, swallowing roughly before continuing, “When we reconciled, the four years that we spent apart had changed you, and even with you

(Lydia)The familiar weight of Thomas’ hand on my thigh felt like it was healing something inside of me.I didn’t speak much after that because it felt like the lump in my throat would burst and I would start sobbing.The years of our separation were some of the hardest years for me. I had lost my partner cruelly. Someone who had told me that they would be there for me in sickness and health suddenly shunning me felt like I had been pierced with a stake directly at the heart.I had missed him dearly in those days.However, what I had missed the most was this. The familiarity that comes between two married people who know each other very well.Like me drowning in guilt and confusion and him placing his hand on my thigh in support and giving me reassuring words with a reassuring smile, knowing that it would make me feel better.It was these little things that I had missed the most during those years.I tried to forget about them. I tried to replace the feeling of emptiness inside of me,

(Jack)I was at lunch with some investors that Thomas was supposed to meet but I could not focus on one word that was coming out of their mouths.I was so utterly distracted by the storm that was my life that work felt like something that I could not prioritize.I had only come to the office today just so I could escape my mother because I knew that if I showed her my face at home, I would be whisked away on another date before I could even think to refuse.The satisfaction of telling mother that her first choice had been thwarted was so amazing that it almost rid me of the headache that I had since my argument with Lydia, however, my heart still felt as heavy as a stone and this feeling won’t go away until I am done with this entire ordeal.I only had about a week to figure out what I wanted to say to Ruby before Lydia told her everything on her own.I wouldn’t let it happen though.I love Ruby, I truly do, and wanting her hurt would be the last thing I would want.I know that just t

(Thomas)I picked up the kids and Lydia from their place at around 2 o’clock.After almost a week of missing them, the idea had popped into my head as a way of spending some time as a whole. The want to have my family all together kept me in its grasp for the past few days.I knew I should not get used to this because who knows what would happen during the time Lydia would spend away. She could find someone infinitely better than me and that would be it.However, the way Lydia smiled at me when she took the passenger seat gave me comfort in the fact that I was not alone in feeling this way.“Soooo,” I drawled, looking in the rearview mirror at the kids strapped to their chairs, “Who’s excited to see some real dinosaur bones?!!”Mabel and Miles cheered from the backseat.I knew they would love to visit the museum. One delightful thing about getting to know my children at a stage where they have their own thoughts and interests has been the way I can easily find the similarities between