Beth Likes It
– Ch. 11
In which Beth learns who she belongs to…
Ben and Jarvis helped me up and walked me back into the living room. I could tell they were being extra nice to me, and I didn’t know why. Frankly, I didn’t even know why I was upset. All the same I snuggled back into my familiar spot on the couch and covered myself with the blanket. I tried to pull the blanket over my head so they wouldn’t look at me, but Ben asked me if I needed more rest or if they could perhaps talk to me for a minute.
“Sure I guess so,” I said. I propped my head up on some cushions which were propped against the arm of the couch. Ben was in his “papa chair” and Jarvis had pulled another chair in from the kitchen, so he could see my face. He was sitting between me and the fireplace.
“How are you feeling?” Asked my former husband.
“Terrible,” I said truthfully. He looked at me, prompting me to elaborate.
“It’s a lot,” I said. Ben nodded, and Jarvis made a sound as if he was choking, but it seemed to be a sympathetic sort of choking.
“But you like this, right?” Asked Ben. He gestured so as to include everything that was happening around us, everything that was in our lives right now. “You like being treated like this…?”
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