Colder Than Ice- Episode Two

Episode Two
Silence

She used to love those rare moments of complete stillness... except now they weren't so rare...now the silence simply made the thoughts in her head more vocal. She thought she was prepared for this...she had taken weeks to think it through...but sometimes even plans leave you numb.

She stared at the ceiling as she lay flat on her back on the bed in the hotel room...this too was just temporary. Everything in her life seemed to be temporary. She reached for the phone in the dead of night...she could have let it ring but what would be the point...she already knew who it was.

"What," she spoke brokenly into the phone, never finishing her sentence?

"I just think maybe...we should talk," he said.

"Bo, do you have any idea what time it is...I'm all talked out."

She didn't give him a chance to respond, she clicked the phone onto it's receiver and turned onto her side. She wished she could just will sleep to come but she knew she would only dream of him...She had never hated the silence so much in her life. The silence made her remember the moment when her husband turned into a stranger.

"You were never planning on coming home were you," she cried into the pillow? "Were you really that selfish that you had to hurt me just because you were hurting too? I wanted to help you Bo...but all you wanted was a way out...why couldn't you have just been a man and admitted that you didn't want to be married to me anymore. It would have hurt so much less than this."

Silence was a woman's loudest cry...and it was what rocked her to sleep in the lonely hotel room when she would reach for him...nobody would hear her pain behind these closed doors...only the silence...and silence wouldn't talk.