Luckily for him she had been in it for the long haul.
Luckily for her it had only taken two days.
“You have to talk to him.”
“No, I don’t.” He was leaning back against the headboard a bunch of pillows propped behind him, while she was cradled against him.
“Yes, you do.”
“No.”
“Yes.”
He huffed at her. “You’re not going to give up are you?”
“No, I’m not.”
“Okay tell me why I should go talk to someone that didn’t support us in the beginning. When it mattered.” He looked down at her and she could see in his eyes that he was being stubborn.
He wasn’t going to let it go.
You have to try.
“Mark, he’s your family,” she whispered, her heart hurting at what she knew he was missing out on.
“Maybe.”
“He is,” she said again.
“Again, maybe,” he snapped, and that time she was the one that huffed.
“Little bird. There were a million different ways that he could have handled that differently.”
“Listen,” she got up on her elbow, so that she could look at him, “are you saying that if you were in his position, scared to lose me, that you would handle it any better?”
His eyes were full of a glistening rage that she didn’t know how to calm, but she didn’t back down. If it was the last thing she did, she wasn’t going to let him give up.
Not when it mattered so much.
She stared right back, shoring up her defenses. He was so complicated and hard, but so soft and caring.
Like two sides of a coin.
But also like a coin, when you flipped it, you never knew what you were going to get.
For her it was always caring and soft. He was always watching out for her. Healing her, and never hard with her. Even when she knew that he was fed up with her in some way. He had stuck with her through her worst.
But the other side of him, was hard and unyielding.
She needed him to bend just a little though, because otherwise she was afraid that he was going to regret it.
“Ugh.” He rolled his eyes and turned back to the TV playing quietly across the room.
She let him have his moment, as he seemed to surf the channels, not looking for anything in particular.
“Fine,” he muttered.
“Thank you,” she said, hiding her smile. But inside she was jumping up and down with elation.
