I'm Second Place in My Own Marriage
Coffee spilled everywhere, instantly filling the air with the cloying sweetness of vanilla.
The entire cafe fell silent.
Lindsay looked back and forth between Lionel and me, dazed.
Lionel remained standing at the doorway, as if nailed to the spot.
I slowly rose to my feet and walked toward him.
The spilled coffee snaked across the floor by his feet, like a dream that had never truly belonged to me.
I stopped in front of him and, for the last time, looked up above his head.
In first place was Lindsay, in second place was his mother, and third—me.