Ron Duke, the Chief Security Officer of the City Express, was in his office. Today he did not have his friends over. Neither was he expecting anyone. He was not expecting anything at all. Even that his door would be knocked open in front of him. Even the person that would be standing at the place of the knocked door was someone he was not expecting as well. The most unexpected person."What are you doing, banging into my office like that?” Ron asked glaring wickedly at the man in front of him. "Have you lost your mind, you?"Gavin himself was not the kind of person to go knocking the doors of people's offices. Even he himself could attest to this somehow. But there he was, standing there with his fingers curled up into a fist, eagerly staring at Ron. His mouth full of numberless words to say to the C.S.O."Am I not talking to you?" Ron barked again at him, ignoring a tiny voice in his head preaching to him about how the man standing in front of him was not the Gavin he knew. This was

After the call, Gavin thought to himself that it would not be particularly fair if he went out with her in a taxi. After her outburst, he really wanted to surprise her and make her feel as though she had made the right choice. Although he had no doubt that she had.What else could he do to make her happy? He thought to himself. Certainly there should be something he could add. He thought for a few minutes, and then, before he knew it, the most crazy idea crashed into his head."I could go borrow a car," he said almost aloud, but still to himself. He smiled deviously afterwards. There was a car rental-and-use spot somewhere in the inner reaches of the city. There seemed to not be any harm in it, so he went off to the place.He got there in a taxi. He still wore his worn out uniform. His body was still bruised. A stout man with a walrus moustache came out of the gate and saw him standing outside."Oy, mate. What are you doing standing outside of my spot? Do you have some business her

In Gavin's head, he had prepared well to make the trip a memorable one for he and his wife, who still frowned profoundly beside him, not exchanging a word with him at all. In Meghan's head Gavin looked nothing different from a fool. He could cover it up by renting an expensive car, but not having the sense to at least change his clothes into something better showed how lacking he was in his fashion sensibilities. And she could not say anything other than to be ashamed of him.He was going to embarrass her, wherever they were going, she predicted and was sure of her predictions."This the place," he said confidently, stopping the car and coming down from it, while she hesitated, even almost pinching herself to convince herself that what she was seeing was just a dream and it was nothing she should take seriously."What are you doing?" He asked her, noticing that she was taking time to come down from the car. "I know what I am doing," she said. "You do not have to rush me. I am not a k

They both got into the car once more. Meghan had stopped crying at the time, and was begining to think more clearly than she was able to, while crying. "Where are we going to?" She asked him, her voice still cracky and choky as she had just stopped crying. Her eyes were pink in color. She rested her head on the soft leather of the car's chair. "Which mall would you want us to go to?" He asked her, a smile on his face."I don't know. You should pick one. Anyone you pick I'll follow you to." From her voice he could tell that she was tired and just needed rest to set things straight with herself. After all, he was also tired of arguing everytime they met. The last few days of both their lives had been filled with nothing but disagreements, quarrels, and arguments. He did not want things like that to define their relationship anymore.He decided to pick the the most expensive clothing store he could find. There was one he particularly liked for its name."Babe, you would not mind me ta

Meghan's hands were now littered with a few bags of clothes. She was done shopping and and was supposed to be moving to the counter to go pay for the things she had picked. She could not go because she had no money. She was filled with dread of what was going to happen since she knew exactly what was in his account, and was merely shopping out of faith, that perhaps a miracle might have happened, to have given her husband money to pay for everything.She took a peek at the entrance and saw him, Gavin, still arguing with the security guards sprawled at the door, who had decided that it would be their job to cause more trouble for Gavin that evening.She did not want to interfere, as she believed it would just cause more mockery to herself and an unnecessary attention from everybody else around her. "Dear lord, have mercy," Meghan whispered a prayer, even though she was not in particular, a very religious type. She wished she was with a rosary that she could hold and count with her han