Just need to Find me some good good good love

1.      “All the Things you hate I find Fun.  Things you want to do are just done.”  --“Midnight Run.”
 

          At the dinner table, I am already ready to leave.  Your friends have watched me for an hour, after an hour of taking care of Amelie, before putting her to bed, Hollie decided we were having guests.  She pushed through the door with a large grocery sack in hand and stared at me. 

          “You are always behind,” She said, dropping the sacks on the table, “We’re having guests, so change that stupid shirt and pants and put on the new shirt I bought you.”

          “It’s 9 o’clock, and I got home at six and you didn’t tell me we we would eat with your deuschey friends.”

          “I deserve some fun and you never take me anywhere,” She said, and then she looked at me, “Get dressed, or spend the evening alone.”

          The fact she claimed I never took her anywhere was complete bulls—t.  She knew it too, but she wanted some kind of dinner party, and I had had to come home at six, feed Amelie and then get her out of the tub and in bed.  It didn’t matter to her that I had been working since 8 a.m. and she had spent the morning in bed until noon, and her afternoon at Starbucks.

          So, there I was at the table, Bryson, who she called “Brysypoo” affectionately, but somehow this made me want to vomit every time she said it, and Bryce’s flavor of the week, some guy named Vincent, who would probably empty Bryce’s bank account, steal his silverware, and leave him a shell of a man was already drinking most of our good wine and opening another bottle.  It was almost 10:55 and I wanted to Watch Doctor Who, but the look on her face, curled into a snarl.  

  

“Stop being such a child.” She said.