Callie drags her feet as she walks up the sidewalk to her front door. Her eyes are glistening with tears, her heart pounding in her chest. Kyle would be so mad at her. She had borrowed his car without his permission while he was napping, and one wrong turn down a one way street, and she'd wrecked his brand new, fiery red Corvette. It now sat in their driveway, it's nose crushed in, the windshield cracked. Callie dreads waking him up to tell him the news about his baby. Kyle will not be happy with her. Hell, he might even leave her, even though they'd been together for almost three years now, and had future plans.
She turns her key in the lock, and gingerly steps in the door. As she's shutting it behind her, she hears Kyle in the kitchen. He's cooking something that smells like roast beef, and Callie's head drops.
"Hey baby, I'm making you that pot roast that you've been wanting for ever." He walks around the corner, huge smile on his face, holding a pan and a wooden spoon. Seeing Callie, his brow furrows, and he walks over to her, asking, "Cal, what's wrong? Cal?" His blue eyes search her green ones, and she covers her face and sits on the couch in front of him.
"Oh, Kyle, you're probably going to leave me and hate me forever, I can't believe I did something so stupid." Sobbing into her hands, her long brunette hair falling around her face. Kyle stands in front of her, in aghast, and asks softly. "Did you cheat on me, Callie?" She jumps up, grabbing his arms. "No, no. It's nothing like that. It's..."
She looked out the window, and didn't have an opportunity to finish as Kyle followed her gaze. His mouth fell open as he stared at the wrecked remains of his Corvette. He was silent as he walked back to the kitchen, pans clattering, as Callie sat on the couch, waiting for him to tell him they were through. He walks back into the living room, and stands in front of her.
"Stand up, Callie." His voice is stern, and commanding, and she obeys immediately, head bowed.
"Look at me."
Her averted eyes slowly raise to meet his, and he continues. "I want an explanation for what happened to my car."
"I..." She pauses, and looks at the car, then to her feet. "I took it---"
"My eyes, Callie Michelle." He orders her face to raise once more. Her eyes are brimming with tears, and her face flushed with the humiliation of facing his disappointed reaction.
"I took it out to drive while you were napping. And I went the wrong way down third street." She sighs, and wipes her eyes. "I'm sorry, Kyle, I'll pay for everything, I won't let you pay a dime---" He cuts off her pleas.
"I have dealt with this sort of thing from you for too long, Callie. And no matter how many times I ask you not to, you take something without asking, or you go behind my back, and frankly I'm tired of it. It's high time you learned a lesson." He crosses his arms in front of his muscular chest, staring at her.
"What do you mean, Kyle? Please don't leave me, it was an accident--" Callie grabs at his arm, and Kyle swipes up her hand and holds it.