She walked in the door to the apartment. She had been to see a play with her sister. Before she left, he told her he was taking his kids out that night, so she didn't expect him to be around very long after she got there. It was around 4:30 pm on Saturday night.
She said hi and he answered. But it wasn't his usual bubbly salute. He seemed upset about something. She went in her room and took off her shoes and came back in the den and sat to watch television, not really watching, but wondering if she should intrude on his thoughts. He sat at the computer quietly clicking away at some site. It was his quietness that spoke volumes. He got up and went outside. She was worried about him so she walked to the door and opened it. He was standing on the porch.
"Are you ok?" she asked.
He said he was fine. She felt dismissed, so she went back in the house. A few minutes later he came back inside and went to his room. He got something then yelled, "I'll be back later", as he slammed the door going out.
She tried not to think. She turned off the TV and turned the stereo up really loud. It was playing Madonna's Erotica. She started to dance. She loved to dance and she just didn't get to do it as much as she used to. Dancing helped her lose herself in music and not think. She didn't want to think.
She was really starting to feel the music. Her hips started to move as her hands slid up her sides and over her shoulders above her head. She gyrated a slow grinding turn, as she heard the door slam. He was standing there smiling at her. She laughed at being caught. She figured he forgot something, so she smiled back at him and continued with her turn.
He walked into the room and grabbed her swinging arm and pulled her to him and hugged her. All of the energy faded out of her as she melted into his body. He hadn't touched her for three months, then the other night they had had sex. It had been rough and not very feeling. She was trying to decide if she could do that again.
But he felt different. He had been unemployed for a few weeks and was expecting a call from her company about a job, but because of bureaucratic red tape, the call hadn't come. He raised his hand showing her a fifty dollar bill, "look what I found hidden in my wallet," he smiled.
She laughed and said, "Good for you!"