Nov 24, 2009 15:53
It was like she expected Joe to come back, like at any moment Joe would waltz up the path with that smile on his face and a new pet name for her on his lips. She knew he wouldn't though, just as she knew she wouldn't see Webster for days or weeks at a time now that he'd gone out on his boat alone. She didn't really understand why he'd wanted to leave, even after he tried to explain it to her.
Now she sat with her back up against the wall of The Officer's Club with a book in her hands. She'd been reading and re-reading the same paragraph for the last half an hour without taking any of what it said.
She didn't expect to see either of them, not really, so she didn't know why she'd come there except maybe for habit.
He's not coming back. Never coming back, sugar.
Trisha put her book down in her lap and pressed her forehead to her knees, closing her eyes. She didn't cry, she'd cried herself out already, but her chest felt heavy with loss.
She was alone again.
[Find Trisha outside the Officer's Club. All tags welcome but especially BoB pups. She's feeling a little lost without Joe and Web.]
ray kowalski,
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