The Funny Thing Is
by: Rhiannon & AJ
***Okay, here it is! This is the third and final part of this little trilogy
that began with Never Enough. Thanks to everyone that has hung in with us!
Your feedback has made this a WONDERFUL writing journey for us! This story
picks up where Letting Go left off...***
Abbey shot straight up in bed... Her heart beating loudly in her ears, she
fought to control her breath. She closed her eyes and waited until her
breathing returned to a normal rhythm. Then a thought flew into her head, she
turned quickly to the man sleeping next to her.
She breathed a sigh of relief... There, sleeping with a furried look on his
brow was her husband...
Jed.
All at once the bubbling well of emotions within her got the best of her. She
reached around and grabbed her pillow. Without thinking, she began to rain
down blows on her husband.
Jed jumped at the startling impact as he was jostled out of his own
nightmare. He scurried around the bed, trying to escape his wife's pillow,
"Abbey!"
Abbey paid no attention to him, "You cheated on me! You cheated on me!"
"Abbey, stop!" Jed yelled. When Abbey continued to come at him with a
swinging pillow, Jed finally grabbed one of his own. He landed a solid hit on
the top of her head, "Yeah, well... You were going to marry Leo!"
Abbey took another swing, "Well, you cheated on me with a blond bimbo."
"You were making out with Leo!" Jed retorted, firing right back at her.
"Yeah ... well ... you were..." Abbey began. All of a sudden, she lost her
balance and began to fall from the bed, "Jed!"
Jed reached out and grabbed Abbey's arm, pulling her to safety ... falling
backwards on the bed. Abbey landed right on top of him. They lay like that
for a long time, each catching their breath ... each rationalizing the dream
they had just had.
Finally Abbey look in her husband's eye, "I had a dream, Jed... You cheated
on me ... and we lost each other..."
Jed brushed his wife's dark hair out of her eyes, "I dreamed that I lost you
... that I lost myself ... because I-"
"Because you cheated on me?"
"Yeah..." Jed trailed off. After a moment he spoke again, "I'm going to call
in ... and you are too... We're going to talk about this... It scares me
Abbey."
Abbey nodded, "Me too... Me too, Jed."
Jed nodded as he held his wife close to him.
TBC...