Eve’s legs slipped down to the pool floor as Julian stood up. She turned around to come face to face with Tc.

“Tc, please, just let me explain,” Eve said as she began walking towards Tc.

Eve was caught off guard by Julian’s quick hands, for they went around her and pulled her back against his chest.

“Julian, quit!” Eve tried to pry his arms from around her.

“No, Eve,” Julian hissed, as his hand tightened around her breast and his other on her hip, shielding Eve, “I will not have any other man looking at my wife when she is not clothed,” he finished.

Eve struggled, but stopped when Tc spoke again.

“You’re married, and you never told me?!”

“No, Tc…you see, I just found out myself,” Eve tried to explain.

“Ohh, so when were you going to tell me, hmm? Was I supposed to figure it out for myself while you leave me standing at the altar tomorrow, as you were f***ing him?”

“Tc, no…” she shook her head.

Tc sniffed; he didn’t want to cry.

“Well,” he said and then rolled the tip of his tongue along the back of his bottom teeth, “I hope you and your WH*RE are very happy together,” he turn and began walking to the sliding door.

Eve gasped.

“Now you just wait a minute there,” Julian said as he pushed Eve aside and strode through the water to get to Tc.

But Tc didn’t stop, he just slid the door open and then slammed it shut, shattering the glass.

“HEY! You’re going to pay for that!” Julian yelled from in the pool.*

Tc heard him and came back and shouted back at Julian through the broken door.

“Yeah, well, I’ll give you seventy-five cents for the door, including your chick,” and then he turned and left them open mouthed in the pool.*

“Eve,” Julian turned back to Eve, “Don’t pay attention to what he said…”

“No, Julian,” she pushed him from her, “I have to go…I have to go and talk to Tc,” she walked out of the pool in her bikini bottoms after she put them back on.

“What?!” Julian stepped out of the pool and stood before Eve, “Please tell me you’re not serious?”

“Of course I am; Tc deserves an explanation,” she slipped Julian’s shirt on and attempted to walk around the broken glass.

Julian followed her into her room and watched as she got dressed.

“Eve, I don’t want you to go, and that’s final.”

“Excuse me? Final?” she scoffed, “I don’t think so; I’m going to go talk to Tc if you like it or not,” Eve walked out of the room and down the hallway to the front door.

“If you leave to go see Tc, then don’t bother coming back to Harmony.”

“Julian,” she walked back to him, “Please,” she kissed his lips softly, “Just please try and understand,” her hands rested against his bare chest as her lips pressed gentle kisses upon him, “I just want to apologize to him…please,” she whispered as she hugged him.

“Okay, Eve,” he sighed, “Just don’t be long, okay, darling? Maybe I should go with you?” he insisted.

“No, no…I’ll be fine. I’ll be back shortly,” she kissed him again and left.
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Julian went to work on the mess that led out of Eve’s living room to the back yard. It had been fifteen minutes and he had gotten every little piece of glass, and now he was waiting patiently for Eve.

“Eve, come on, where are you,” Julian talked to himself as he saw horrible images of Eve and Tc together in his head, “No, she loves me…yeah,” he said and then walked to her room.

Tired of waiting for his wife, Julian drifted off to sleep in her bed.

“Julian,” she called out as she opened the front door, “Julian…” she stopped and smiled at the sight of him in her bed.

Remembering how Julian slept, Eve quietly undressed and slipped in under the covers next to her husband.

“Julian,” she whispered into his ear.

“Hmm, what?” he stirred and smacked his lips.

“I’m home,” she kissed his neck.

“Hmm, home…I love how that sounds,” Julian pulled her close.
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Julian and Eve woke up the next morning in each other’s arms. Something the both of them had missed for the past four months.

“What did he say, Eve?”

“He really didn’t say anything,” she said sadly as her finger traced around his nipple, “I told him about Evelyn and how she deceived us and how what happened between you and me…just happened; that it couldn’t be helped. He didn’t want to listen to anything I had to say; he just wanted me to go and he never wanted to see me again.”

“Ohh,” Julian caressed her bare shoulder, “I’m sorry, darling. Don’t worry, Eve…one good thing did happen after all, right? We are together,” Julian kissed her head.

“Yes, you’re right,” Eve raised her head off his chest and looked up to him.

“Come here, dear,” Julian pulled her face to his.

Julian and Eve stayed in bed the rest of the morning and enjoyed their time together…alone.
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“Dad!” Todd and J.J. ran to Julian and hugged him, but stayed leery of Eve.

They were unsure how to react to their mother, since they hadn’t seen her for over four months, and the last time she was home, she wasn’t quite herself.

“J.J., Todd, I missed you two so much,” Eve knelt before them and pulled them two into her arms.

The boys smiled and hugged her back when they realized it was their mother…the mother they had loved and become accustomed to.

“Mommy!” they exclaimed simultaneously, “I’m so glad you’re back! Don’t ever leave us…”

Eve pulled back and looked into their little faces.

“Never. Never will I leave my boys…my three boys,” she looked up and winked at Julian and smiled.
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*-lines from the movie Grease; I just changed a few words