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had happened to one of my children while
I was out all night again with Archer and I wasn’t sure if I could live with
that kind of guilt. Archer just shrugged his shoulders as if he couldn’t
understand why I didn’t just answer the damn thing already. I swallowed the
lump in my throat and picked the cell phone up, it was Richard.
                “It’s
Richard,” I said to Archer.
                “Oh I
will give you some privacy then,” he said as he got up off the bed and he and
Pharaoh walked out of the bedroom leaving me alone with my fear and a vibrating
cell phone. I took a deep breath and calmly answered.
                “Hello.”
                “Lizzie
how are you?” Richard asked coolly.
                “I’m
fine and yourself?” I replied politely.
                “I’m
ok. I drove by the house yesterday and noticed you haven’t been staying there
much,” he said.
                “I’ve
been staying with some friends actually. I couldn’t handle being there without
the kids,” I said honestly.
                “Ah,
friends right, so Lizzie can I ask you something?”
                “Uh
sure Rich,” I said not liking where this was going.
                “Just
what in the hell do you think you’re doing?”
                “Richard
I don’t know what you are asking me exactly,” I said and I wasn’t trying to
play stupid I really had no idea what he was getting at.
                “I’m
asking what you’re doing Lizzie. Why all of a sudden have you decided to hang
out and now stay with a bunch of dirty bikers? Where is the Lizzie I used to
know? You know the wife and mother Lizzie not this new biker Lizzie that likes
to curse at her husband and then run off abandoning her children. Are you going
through a mid-life crisis or something? Do you need counseling? I just want to
help you Lizzie before you throw your life away for a bunch of garbage. I don’t
want to see you turn into trash you are way too good for that you know.”
                “Richard
I didn’t leave you and I sure as hell didn’t abandon my children. I love my
children to death and every day that goes by I miss them more and more. You can
say whatever you wish about the people I am staying with but since you don’t
know anything about them personally you come off sounding like a judgmental
prick. Let’s get one fact straight Richard you took the kids and left me so if
anyone was abandoned it was me. I am not having a mid-life crisis and no I do
not need counseling, you don’t like this new Lizzie well she doesn’t like you
very much right now either. You want to know what I am doing Richard I’m
fucking living for once! I have people around me that are interested in me not
just my ability to cook and clean up after them. People that take me places and
show me things I’d never imagine existed. That is what I am doing Richard!”
                “Well
um ok Lizzie. Look are you having an affair?” he asked and I knew it was
coming. I had a sneaking suspicion that this is really the question he had
wanted to ask me all along.
                “No, I
am not. I’m sure you will draw your own conclusions but I am not that kind of
woman. We are still married by law and I would not betray my vows that way,” I
said. I think it shocked him because he didn’t say anything for a few minutes.
“Hello?”
                “I’m
still here,” he said quietly. “Would you like to see the kids for a few hours
this weekend?”
                “Of
course,” I said excited. I was so ecstatic he was going to let me see the kids.
I figured he was going to be bitter and keep them from me until we went to
court, if we ever went to court.
                “How
about Saturday afternoon?” he asked.
                “Ok,”
I