Short Story 1 Chp 1 September 19/08

Here I was atop of transmoutain, stopping to look down at the north east, Friday night at a very late hour when I should be partying with my boyfriend, yet he was working as he always was. Working too much for our own benefit, our relationship was on thin ice, and he sends me to run an errand for him. I said to my sister who I picked up for the sake of not being alone, pretending to listen to me. You bitch I yelled in a playful manner, I'm pouring my heart out and your spaced out. Sorry, just enjoying the thunderstorm filled sky; I heard it suppose to be the worst storm El Paso has ever had, she replied. If you have ever been to El Paso you would know that it mostly sunny and hot through out the year, and rain was a luxury to see. As we sat atop the Franklin Mountains the wind began to violently pick up as we look above up, the clouds seem magnificently awesome. I had never seen cloud so dense and dark and lighting flashed so brightly white. As it gently moved a top the Wal-Mart, it began to swirl a bit, nothing we haven't seen so there was no alarm, after all sometimes when the gulf coast would be hit by hurricanes the remaining cloud that drifted were still spinning. Although these cloud were spinning a bit more than usual, mixed with the most radiant lighting flashes and low deep thunderous noises that shook the ground. As we continued to stare in awe from the corner of our eyes an airplane seem to be descending but it was flying directly into the storm, which I found odd, but I put out of my thoughts. Then it began to pour but the cloud were so low that when it did it was truly something that I had never seen it was as someone had just released a large amount of water, onto the city. It resembled when you toss large amount of water on to the pavement, it hits the ground so hard that it splashes back up a bit, and then falls back onto the ground. Unlike usual rain where it hit the grown and splashes a mere inch, no this rain was so dense that it jumped, two or three feet off the ground. So we decided to head back to the truck and finish this errand. Apparently David and the core of engineers had a lab out here, and he forgot to bolt lock the doors, as it was often vandalized. It was in the most out of the way area behind the EPISD building, the one next to a tennis center, a small dirt road lead up to it. Now the storm more violently than ever in the distance I could see the heavy door swinging violently in the wind as I got off the wind was so cold it felt as needle were piercing my skin. As I got closer there was a very strong odor emitting from the lab, of chemicals and moldiness. I hurried and locked the door and was on my way. I dropped my sister off shortly, and then headed home hoping to spend the rest of the night with David, I pulled into the drive way expecting to see the car, and to no surprise he was still working. I hurried in, began to take off my shoes as David walks in. I began to get angry and I drilled him, why is it that you put your work above your partner, we have been together for six year and you still regarding your work higher than me. You are always working and you don't even care to share where you go or are half the time. Roads can't wait? You are a great civil engineer yet they won't give you a break to spend time with your loved ones. Yes honey I understand but this is important to me, I am almost done with this project and then I promise to spend more time with you, he replied as usual. I was fed up I would not let up, and that day David and I broke up. Although we had separated from that day on we regarded each other as good friends.

I began to notice something odd about David the following months that ensued, for beginners he had lost a lot of weight not that he needed but more than usual, so much he began to look sickly. One day while we were out I stated this to him, and he said that work has just been tough, that they were demanding all his time. I never crossed my mind to ask him more than the usual while we were together, but as seeing his condition I began to wonder, as a civil engineer would someone be so stressed out as to lose that amount of body mass. I began to worry, and ask question that seemed normal but not to prying hoping to gather why he was so stressed out. Finally one day I came up with a plan that would scare me enough not to mentioned the information I gathered to anyone, I asked if I could come over, nothing of the ordinary right. Although I had a plan to steal his personal suit case, as he was always misplacing it, and I knew most of his passkeys, but never snooped, I was respectful that much, because I knew that he would only get mad. It was an easy sure to work plan because I knew where he always kept it. The only thing that made this difficult is keeping David isolated or distracted enough to get the case. So I called his boyfriend at the time, since they were both over worked individuals, I though it be nice to surprise David, saying that I secretly invited him so that my boyfriend and I could get to know his boyfriend. Doubt date, eww who does that anymore but it was worth it, I was too curious to stop now. I set our date in a month time.

A month later, and 8 months since we had been separated it was the day where I would take his suitcase. We arrived at David house around 6:30 P.M. he was surprised to see John with me, as he pulled me aside to ask what was going on, his boy friend Joseph arrived and the distraction began, as he was even more surprised as I mutter, well I though we could have dinner with them together. Semi ignoring me, he just nodded. I had met John online, and although everything was well, I couldn't give him the commitment that he wanted at the time, and I was secretly falling in love with his friend, which is bad enough. Since we did not plan on making dinner for 4 we just decided to order Chinese. That is when I would decide to go to the restroom located on the second floor next to our former bedroom. As we sat there conversing about absolutely nothing, beside the usual where we met, and how thing were going, how long we have been going out. The delivery arrived 15 after 7, as I heard him coming up the foot step, I asked to be excused and pointed out to David that I had forgotten my wallet in the car, and if he could go get them, while I went to the restroom and to feel free to take out whatever half of the total was. I handed him the keys and as he walked out the door I ran up the stairs. His, or our former home was very classic it had dark wooden floors and a wooden staircase, so I had to be very careful as where to step or it would make too much noise. I sneaked into the room, he always kept the suit case behind the door, in the corner behind a wooden plank. I would have though he would move it, but he trusted me to much to think I would take it, and you might ask yourself how is it that I know his passkeys, well once you are a "wife" as he referred to me for 6 years you learn a trick or two on snooping, although temped many time to open it, I was not that type of person. So what made the change? The fact that David was not getting any better, and so many looses end that I could not shake. As I removed the suit case I heard David yell are you okay? They all giggled at my absence. Yes I yelled back, almost done. Outside our home was a huge tree, close enough to the window that I could easily climb up and down, so I climbed down, placed the suit case in my car, always carried spare keys, and walk in through the front door since the dining room was off to the back. I had done it, but I was a bit flushed from the excretion Are you okay, David asked as he came looking for me, yeah I replied those stair are a killer I need cut down. I knew he wouldn't ask any more than that, especially since I really honestly needed to cut down. The evening ended with a bang, everything was a success and I knew David wouldn't suspect his suitcase gone till Monday especially since, Joseph would spend the weekend, as he always does when he visits. This made me angry at David because for Joseph, David would always make time.