A: Ah, come on Gav. It’ll be fun. And think of all the alone time we’ll have. [wink wink]

G: Hmmm, alright fine. But only for the weekend, I need to be back at work bright and early on Monday.

A: That’s plenty of time. [kiss] Thank you, Gavin. This means a lot to me.

G: Any time, babe.

A: Let’s get some sleep. We’ll have to leave early tomorrow.

A: So I had this idea for us talking things out a bit before we see the therapist…

G: What ya got in mind?

A: I was thinking we could take a vacation, just the two of us, to Granite Falls. Rent a dumpy little cabin in the woods, play horseshoes, hike. All that fun stuff. I think it’d be good for us to spend some time together.

G: I don’t know, Athena…

A: I think we are. I know we have a lot of problems, but I really do think we could work this out. I’ve made an appointment with a therapist for us and everything so we can talk things out with a mediator.

G: Wow. You’re really serious about us working this out. Quite honestly, I thought you were just going to divorce me, get full custody of Bethany, and collect alimony until the day I died.

A: …Well aren’t you morbid. Come on, let’s go upstairs.

G: You mean I don’t have to sleep on the couch?

A: Not tonight, we’ll see about in the future. 

A: Don’t you come after me! After your affair with Zoe, this was just me trying to cope!

G: Cope? Cope! You don’t cope by sleeping with some random stranger you picked up at a bar!

A: You don’t know where I met Paolo.

G: I saw him sitting at the bar as I left, Athena. I know you just met him tonight.

A: …

A: You know what Gavin? I’m not doing this tonight. Go sleep on the couch.

G: Fine! I wouldn’t want to sleep in that bed anyway.

After he fled the bar, Gavin went for a walk around the neighborhood to clear his head. He thought about his relationship with Zoe, and how no matter how he felt about her, he still needed to go home to his wife and talk things out. When he got there, she wasn’t downstairs, so he went into the bedroom…

And found her with another man.

A: Hey, you filthy little homewrecker.

Athena was done with this, she had to take matters into her own hands. She would show this little tramp not to mess with her or her man, and deal with Gavin’s betrayal later.

Z: Oh, I’m the homewrecker? That’s rich, considering you didn’t even know who Bethany’s dad was before she was born!

A: You shut your whore mouth and get ready to catch these hands! 

Z: Come at me, bitch!

In the scuffle of the two women fighting, Gavin made a speedy exit and ran back home with his tail between his legs. He didn’t really care about the outcome, he just wanted to be as far away as he could from the fiasco.

A: That should teach you, you trollop. Now I’m going to go home to MY husband and I better not hear about you going anywhere near him again.