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said an errand to do?”
“ I ran for an hour or so. It had been a few days since I was on the track. It helped me clear my head, then I ran my errand.”
I could see he didn’t want to give me any details, so I prodded him a little, “Oh, is it a secret?”
I heard annoyance in his voice, “No, but I don’t want to talk about that. Molly called my mom in tears saying you kicked her out of the hospital room. Is that true?” Of course, I should have known better than to think my mom would just drop the subject and give me some space to cool off. She called Gwen, Seth’s mom, probably got her all spun up, so Gwen called Seth. Instead of overanalyzing a fantasy all afternoon, I should have spent some time putting this string of events together.
“ Kicked out is pretty strong. I wouldn’t say I kicked her out.” Now the annoyance was creeping into my voice.
“ Then what would you say?” His accusatory tone sparked the embers from my earlier argument with my mom.
“ I would say she was out of line, so I asked her to give me some space. Obviously I couldn’t leave. You need to stay out of this one.” The warning in my voice was clear: this was not something I was willing to discuss, nor felt it appropriate for him to get involved in.
His brow furrowed, as he raised his finger, as if accusing me of something, “I hate it when you get like that with her. She only wants to help.”
“ You weren’t here, Seth. She didn’t want to help, she… she called me…it doesn’t matter. This doesn’t concern you, so just drop it.”
“ I talked to her and told her I’d get you to apologize, so do you want to dial the phone or shall I?” His voice was annoyed, sounding as if he had observed the whole situation and decided that I was in the wrong. This went over like a hot poker to the eye.
“ You What !? You weren’t even here. What do I have to apologize for? You must be out of your mind!”
“ What’s gotten in to you? Your mom is on the edge of a breakdown and you send her away. I’m trying to calm things down, and you tell me I’m out of my mind? You need to realize you are lashing out at the people who love you.”
“ Seth, I don’t want to hurt you. I don’t want you to take this the wrong way, so as politely as I can possibly tell you, I want you to leave. I want you to go home. I don’t want you to come back to the hospital. I don’t want my mom to come back to the hospital. I know I’m being unreasonable; maybe it is the drugs, maybe I’m just exhausted. I refuse to have this argument with you or anybody else.”
“ I’m not going anywhere.”
“ Maybe I’m not being clear through all the politeness.” With every bit of baritone I could muster in my voice, I yelled, “Go home!” I know my eyes were wide and my hands were shaking. This was the closest we had been to a real fight, ever. I might regret it, but I needed him to go before I blurted out something I couldn’t take back.
His response was unemotional and simple, “Nope.”
In a firm voice, “I don’t want to say something I’m going to regret, more than I already have. You need to bail.” Adrenaline coursed through my veins, anger escaped every pore of my body, and strangely enough everything I saw took on a red hue. Although I had never had this type of response to anything in my past, the fury I felt at this moment completely engulfed me. I willed my mind to find a happy thought of some kind that I could latch on to, but I came up empty.
Seth interrupted my attempt at Zen with, “You can be as big a bitch as you want, I’m staying put. Let me know when you’re ready to call Molly.” He took my remote and started flipping through channels.
In a calm voice, so there could be no mistake on his part, “I will have you removed.”
It was his turn to display his temper, and he issued me a challenge. “You wouldn’t dare.” He looked
“ I ran for an hour or so. It had been a few days since I was on the track. It helped me clear my head, then I ran my errand.”
I could see he didn’t want to give me any details, so I prodded him a little, “Oh, is it a secret?”
I heard annoyance in his voice, “No, but I don’t want to talk about that. Molly called my mom in tears saying you kicked her out of the hospital room. Is that true?” Of course, I should have known better than to think my mom would just drop the subject and give me some space to cool off. She called Gwen, Seth’s mom, probably got her all spun up, so Gwen called Seth. Instead of overanalyzing a fantasy all afternoon, I should have spent some time putting this string of events together.
“ Kicked out is pretty strong. I wouldn’t say I kicked her out.” Now the annoyance was creeping into my voice.
“ Then what would you say?” His accusatory tone sparked the embers from my earlier argument with my mom.
“ I would say she was out of line, so I asked her to give me some space. Obviously I couldn’t leave. You need to stay out of this one.” The warning in my voice was clear: this was not something I was willing to discuss, nor felt it appropriate for him to get involved in.
His brow furrowed, as he raised his finger, as if accusing me of something, “I hate it when you get like that with her. She only wants to help.”
“ You weren’t here, Seth. She didn’t want to help, she… she called me…it doesn’t matter. This doesn’t concern you, so just drop it.”
“ I talked to her and told her I’d get you to apologize, so do you want to dial the phone or shall I?” His voice was annoyed, sounding as if he had observed the whole situation and decided that I was in the wrong. This went over like a hot poker to the eye.
“ You What !? You weren’t even here. What do I have to apologize for? You must be out of your mind!”
“ What’s gotten in to you? Your mom is on the edge of a breakdown and you send her away. I’m trying to calm things down, and you tell me I’m out of my mind? You need to realize you are lashing out at the people who love you.”
“ Seth, I don’t want to hurt you. I don’t want you to take this the wrong way, so as politely as I can possibly tell you, I want you to leave. I want you to go home. I don’t want you to come back to the hospital. I don’t want my mom to come back to the hospital. I know I’m being unreasonable; maybe it is the drugs, maybe I’m just exhausted. I refuse to have this argument with you or anybody else.”
“ I’m not going anywhere.”
“ Maybe I’m not being clear through all the politeness.” With every bit of baritone I could muster in my voice, I yelled, “Go home!” I know my eyes were wide and my hands were shaking. This was the closest we had been to a real fight, ever. I might regret it, but I needed him to go before I blurted out something I couldn’t take back.
His response was unemotional and simple, “Nope.”
In a firm voice, “I don’t want to say something I’m going to regret, more than I already have. You need to bail.” Adrenaline coursed through my veins, anger escaped every pore of my body, and strangely enough everything I saw took on a red hue. Although I had never had this type of response to anything in my past, the fury I felt at this moment completely engulfed me. I willed my mind to find a happy thought of some kind that I could latch on to, but I came up empty.
Seth interrupted my attempt at Zen with, “You can be as big a bitch as you want, I’m staying put. Let me know when you’re ready to call Molly.” He took my remote and started flipping through channels.
In a calm voice, so there could be no mistake on his part, “I will have you removed.”
It was his turn to display his temper, and he issued me a challenge. “You wouldn’t dare.” He looked
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