Married Life
Thursday, July 3, 2008 at 05:25AM in broker bill, kate "When are you coming home?"
"He's in bad shape."
"When are you coming home?"
"I don't think..."
"Billy."
(silence)
"We're trying to find the doctor, but he took, like, the whole week off. He's sailing in the Mediterranean or something."
"His wife must like that."
"Don't do that."
(silence)
"Penny won't stop crying. She doesn't want to go back to bed."
"Kate..."
"It's because she knows her father is not here. I'm sorry Melancholy is so unhappy, but your wife and daughter need you at home."
"Look, just go up to Newport without me and I'll..."
"What?"
(silence)
"I'll try to be there in time for the barbecue. Saturday, the latest."
(silence)
"He's unbelievable."
(silence)
"I can't believe you're putting him above us."
"He's my best friend, Kate. What am I supposed to do?"
"You're not supposed to do anything, Billy. Just because you went to the same middle school together doesn't make you his mother."
"Saturday. Promise."
"I don't understand why you still drag him around with you. He's so selfish. That's why those girls leave him."
"I promised, ok?"
(silence)
"He's just taking advantage of you, you know that, right? You're too nice to him."
"Just another day. Maybe two."
(silence)
"I don't believe it. He's a bigger baby than Penny. And she's only six months old."