WHAT ABOUT US?
Getting perceived revenge by not letting the cheaters have all the fun.
She hesitantly answered the banging at the door. Their stood Mike Malone. She recognized him from a few of the parties that her husband had hosted for his employees.
"Is Danny at home?!" He sounded distressed.
She tells him that regretfully, her husband wasn't home and was in fact working later that night. At least that was the impression she was under. Her response vaulted his distress to a near panic. She could see he was on the brink so invited him in to avoid a scene in front of the house. Something was wrong.
She knew him as a loyal employee to her husband's and hoped she could offer up some support for whatever seemed to be bothering him in her husband's absence. He followed her to the kitchen where she offered up a cold drink.
"What's going on, is everything?? Do you want me to try and get him on the phone."
He didn't answer immediately as he seemed to be holding off a panic attack with his heavy breathing. He nodded affirmatively at her drink offer. She grabbed the whisky and ginger ale, remembering that was his drink of choice the last few times they met. As she filled the ice into the glass, he grabbed the whisky bottle and took a swig. She knew he was dealing with something serious. He was starting to make her a bit nervous.
"Something is wrong" she said, starting to think that there may be some trouble wither husband.
She began to jump to conclusions.
"Oh my God! What's wrong?! Was there an accident?!" Now she was beginning to panic.
He held up a hand to calm her down. She took a breath and waited for his response.
"You remember my girlfriend, Nikki?"
She nodded her head in agreement as she did remember a beautiful young woman with him over the summer. She was trying to focus on what could possibly be the reason for Mike stopping by like this today.
He tried to gain some composure as he took the bottle and ginger ale to finish making the drink she started. After a few overly deep breaths he let out what had been torturing him. She tried to keep up what seemed to be an elaborate story, where the bottom line was that Danny was not in fact working late and hadn't been for a while. He was instead sneaking off early with Mike's girlfriend, Nikki. He accused Danny of having an affair with Nikki for the past two months.
She stared blankly at him in disbelief. Her vacant eyes slowly transformed to possessed. She didn't want to believe it at all, but Mike's energy was hard to deny. She grabbed the bottle and took a swig of her own. Then she grabbed her phone, stared at the message where Danny had told her he had to work late again. She dialed his office on a blocked number and asked to speak with him. The secretary responded that he had gone for the day, and she would happily take a message. Maria hung up the phone. Her hand shaking as she also picked up the whisky and ginger that was originally for Mike while sliding the bottle back over to him.
She was mad, with the memories of all the hours she was lonely in the house as her husband would come home two hours late twice a week for the past month. How could he do this to her? Mike was mad too.
"I finally thought I had found a good girl after being burned so many times since my divorce... and then to be betrayed by her and my own boss, who is also my friend!"
After back-and-forth banter over their mutual disbelief, Mike turned to a call for revenge.
"We need to make them pay."
She suggested waiting for him to come home and confronting him. She grabbed her phone again and said she was going to call him and let him know that she knows, saying Mike should call Nikki at the same time, letting them know that "they know". Marias call went directly to voicemail.
Mike wasn't satisfied with these solutions. Just exposing them wasn't going to be enough. He was jealous. He appealed his case to Maria challenging the fairness that their significant others should be out having sex, participating in debauchery, while they just sit back and suffer. Maria didn't have a response for him, not quite following his rant, her still reeling herself.
"Your husband stole my girlfriend!"
In a flurry of emotions, she apologized in response. Somehow, guilt was also thrown into the emotional mix. Afterall, Danny was Her husband, he certainly wasn't here to apologize on his own behalf, and this and man did deserve an apology.