superwoman

"I'm not the kind of girl that you can let down and think that everything is okay."

Jeremy walked in the door of his apartment and immediately knew something was off. Random items were missing from the living room. A lamp, the ottoman, the dvd player. At first he thought they had been robbed. As he reached towards the telephone to call the police, he had a second, more cutting realization. The things that were missing were all Lisa's things.

He rushed into the bedroom and sure enough all her clothing, shoes, and jewelry were gone. He checked every drawer and every corner of the closet. She had even cleared out her clothes from the laundry basket. Lisa was gone. After three years, she was gone just like that.

Jeremy sat down heavily on the couch. He wanted to call her, to demand for her to come home. Or maybe to beg for her to return. Maybe both. But he knew Lisa well. Before he could call he needed to figure out what caused her to leave.

So he thought but nothing came to mind. After all things had been fine when he left three days ago for his cousin's wedding in Toronto. Lisa had wanted to come but couldn't get off work. So Jeremy was gone for three days. Three days without coincidence.

Days went by. Jeremy called Lisa and left numerous voice messages in vain. She never called back. Jeremy was reluctant to replace any of the items Lisa had left with under the increasingly unlikely hope that she would return.

About three weeks after Lisa left, Jeremy ran into his friend Phillip at the store. And Phillip asked two questions that cleared everything up. He wanted to know what Jeremy had gotten Lisa for her birthday and why he wasn't at the birthday party Lisa had planned three months in advance.