“Oh, my aching head “ The sunlight was streaming through the bedroom window violating my eyelids. I reached out to grab the clock and held it in front of my face. I was having a heck of a time trying to focus. It must have been the one, or two, or three long island ice teas too many last night. I hadn’t done anything like that since college. My mouth tasted like, well, you’ve all had that feeling. I needed a serious drink of water and some coffee, lots of coffee. The good news was that I could smell it brewing downstairs. I could also smell something else cooking, bacon. “I wonder what I’ve done to deserve this.” I thought to myself.
I gradually sat up and looked around the room. There on the floor was my suit, one of my more expensive suits. I didn’t even remember taking it off last night. That would explain why it was all balled up by the door. I looked over by my wife Diane’s side of the bed. There was a pair of empty wine glasses on her nightstand. What the hell were they there for? Then I started to get that “ah shit, I really fucked something up” feeling. We had both been real busy lately. Me with work, her with a new job and the kids. There hadn’t been much time for us. We had talked about sending the kids off to her parents for the weekend. I sure hope that wasn‘t supposed to be this weekend.
I dragged myself up and went to the bathroom. I looked in the mirror and realized I looked as bad as I felt. I suppose I should go down stairs and see how bad the damage is. I passed the kids bedrooms. No kids. Beds weren’t even slept in. It must have been this weekend. I continued down the stairs and now I could hear the bacon cooking. I came around the corner to the kitchen and spied her across the room. Her back was to me. Damn, I was a lucky guy. Diane, my wife of 15 years was about 5’7’’. She had long legs and a fantastic ass. She still turned my head from across a crowd even after all these years. Her blond hair was tied in a ponytail and her left hand was resting on her hip as she stirred the bacon with her right. A pan of scrambled eggs sat off to the side.
I slid a chair out from the kitchen table and sat down.
“Good morning” I said.
“Morning” she replied without turning around.
“How about some coffee?” I asked.
“You know where the cups are.” She said in a cold monotone voice.
This is going to be a long weekend I thought to myself.
“We got the contract at work.” I told her.
“That’s nice,” she answered.
The contract was the reason I’d been drinking last night. The proposals came in and we won the second biggest award in the companies history. The guys came in and decided we should all go down to one of the bars near work and celebrate. I figured one drink couldn’t hurt. Then we ordered some wings, then another round, and another.
“I’m sorry,” I sort of pleaded.