Have Faith In Me
Part 12
By Kelly
“Michelle, baby, come back! WAIT, Michelle, WAIT. It’s not what you think”
“Damn it! Nice job Santos,” I mutter to myself as the door slams in my face. I begin pounding on the door, I can hear her sobs coming through, I have to get in there, to explain.
“Michelle! MICHELLE! Let me in baby, we need to talk.”
Still no answer, I’m banging and kicking the door now. I’m also starting to get a bit angry at her for just jumping to conclusions. I know how badly she’s been hurt, but I thought we loved and trusted each other. Could I have been so wrong. She still won’t answer the door, my anger is building.
“God Damn it, MICHELLE, you open this door right now or I’ll bust it down!”
Still no response. “Well you idiot Santos, now you’re probably scaring her too”, I think to myself. I take a deep steadying breath, and try the door, it’s not locked, so I slowly open it. What I see makes my anger evaporate.
My Michelle, is curled in a ball on the floor, her body racked with sobs. I am by her side in a second, but not before I notice the room. Candles burning, and intimate table for two, soft music. She planned a special lunch for me, and now her heart is broken. She’s dressed in my favorite dress, emerald green with a high neck, but backless, the skirt is flared at her waist and just crazes the tops of her knees. I hold her in my arms, she starts hitting me in the chest trying to get me to let go, but I won’t, not ever.
“Shhhh, Michelle, stop it, stop. Baby, you have to listen to me, it was all a mistake.”
She looks up at me with such raw pain in her eyes, it crushes my heart. “Yeah, right Danny, I understand, it was a mistake. A mistake for me to think any man, but especially you would ever love me. I should I have known I wasn’t woman enough for you. You don’t have to explain, I understand.”
“No, Michelle you have no idea. I do love you, you are the ONLY woman for me. Yes, I do love the woman you saw me with, because she is my SISTER Pilar.