One More Day - PART TWO

Darrin felt his voice, he saw his body but he could not control it.  I saw himself from the outside.  He stood outside himself and watched what he could not change.  This was not at all what he expected.  He recognized the time and the moment with Mellissa, but he could not enter his body.   Was this what the man meant by not being what he expected?

Darrin recognized his own words, “I want one more day to know how much you love me.”   And he was reminded of the situation by Mellissa’s, “Who said I loved you?”

He watched and walked about as that morning wore on.  When he and his wife parted ways at the lunch time hour, Darrin made the obvious choice to follow his wife.  She had told him that she wanted to visit a friends office while he played soccer with his friends in Central Park.

Always wondering what it would be like to be with the one you love when they are not with you, it suddenly gave Darrin an uneasy feeling.  After all, what if she said things against him, or what if she didn’t go to see a friend at work?  And this is just the truth Darrin did not expect or want to learn.

Darrin followed her to a cab when she always asserted her greater understanding for the subway.  Already it seemed he was learning more of his wife than he realized; but he was sure there was a reason.  He didn’t catch the address as he ran up behind her and his ghost like shadow stepped through her into the passenger seat.  Sitting next to her in the cab he noticed she was checking her make-up.  She pulled from her purse a ...   more »

Darrin had a few friends but none he could rely on.  Not because their hearts were cold, it was simply a matter of time.  In this modern world every man and woman has their own problems.    In this modern world life’s challenges consume us, we often look self-absorbed when we have rent to pay, credit cards to pay and our own families relying on us.  Who has time to help a friend move out when it means taking precious time off from work or from our own family?

So it is that Darrin found himself after his divorce sitting alone in his home waiting for the movers he didn’t feel he should have needed to move out the remainder of his memories.  Memories in the form of couches, dressers and small knick-knacks from trips taken with his soon to be ex-wife.    Milling about he found one small kaleidoscope she favored lying behind a dusty cherub they both picked out on a trip to St. Barts.   He recalled the day they sat together on a small topless beach.   She was too shy to take her top off and he knew why.   He kept her secret hidden from everyone.  After all, a woman wasn’t supposed to have that problem. But he accepted her faults and all.   In their discomfort, they both walked the small seaside village where on one back street they found a hole in the wall store named, Blessings.  On an obscure rack lay a number of small cherubs, each with a promise to which they'd fullfill if you owned them.  Darrin and Mellissa admired them all.  Right next to the one promising answers was one for fertility.  It was there they found the cherub that was supposed to bring good fortune to those seeking to have a baby.  That day never came.