Rainy Days and Mondays #7

#7. I'm calling you out for calling in sick, you coward!
Max got back to the city and moved out of the apartment. He paid the rent in advance for three months and didn’t leave a forwarding address.

Max had been offered an opportunity to head a new office in another city. he spoke to his boss and took the position. He was gone before Jackie got back from the resort.

Jackie came home to find Max gone. She got angry. She wanted to work through their problems but he was too much of a coward to do it.

Jackie contacted his work thinking she could find him. She was informed that Max was no longer working there. She asked if they knew where he had went but they refused to tell her where he was working now.

Jackie had them send a message to Max to get in contact with her. They agreed but she had a feeling that she wouldn’t get an answer. 

Max got her message later that same day. He read it over and over again. He could tell that she was angry and he knew she should be. He was a coward just as she said. He didn’t want to face what he had done. He had betrayed her more than once.        

Rainy Days and Mondays #8

#8.Sometimes the healing is in the aching.
Jackie decided it was time to move on. She started to look for a new apartment. She didn’t want to live in their apartment anymore. It hurt too much to stay. They had picked that apartment out together.

Jackie found a loft and moved just as the three months ended. She left everything that they had picked out together. She didn’t want to bring anything of her past in her new life.

Jackie took one last look before she shut the door. It was almost as if she was shutting the door on any possibility that she and Max would ever get back together as well as her past.

Jackie’s heart ached but she knew that in time the ache would go away. She just didn’t know how long it would take. She would hurt and she knew it would take time. She would just have to be patient. 

Jackie started to live her new life and wait for the aching to go away. She just had to have hope for the future.

On the other coast, Max was facing the same dilemma. He immersed himself in work but it wasn’t helping. He was having a difficult time moving on with his new life. This wasn’t what he planned when he took the new job and left Jackie on the other coast.

The ache in Max’s heart was not subsiding. It was not going away as he thought it would. He had been gone from her for six months but it hurt just as much as the day he left. He wasn’t healing his heart he was torturing himself.