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Cedric Long
Short Stories
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Ending an Affair
Author: Cedric Long
Genre: Drama
Ending an Affair (A Short Story by Cedric Long)
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Ruby Fletcher has been having sex with the pastor for 8 months now. He has a wife and a five
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year old. She knows it is sin but she was in love. Fletcher Drives slower than the other cars on
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the highway. She wasn't in a hurry; wasn't completely sure if she should do this.
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The hot car had no AC, all the windows were down. The wind blows her dress up her legs.
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Fletcher knew his daughter would be at daycare and wife at work. The pastor's first lady was a
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teller at the bank Fletcher held an account. Making deposits had become so uncomfortable.
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The wife smiles every time she sees Fletcher come in. Fletcher is forced to hold a faked
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conversation; while her conscience eats away at her. She tried getting in another
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line a few times but The pastor's wife angry face did not shy from expressing she was offended.
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So Fletcher suffers in that line; waiting and hoping not to be struck by lightning. Fletcher
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pulls the car over on the side of the road. She had been a minister at Word Way Ministries
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for 3 years now. Parked on the side of the highway Fletcher expected to hear from God; If she
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could just hear the smallest voice she'd turn around. But God was silent. The car continues
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on the way to his home. She tells herself "When I get there I'll be strong enough to end this."
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but she loves him, so she wasn't sure she could go thru with it. Would seeing that handsome
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face causes her to fall into his arms and make love again. No, this time it's different this time
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she was strong. The car pulls up on the street in front of the brick home. Fletcher sees Him
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peeping out of the blinds. Butterflies fill her belly; just a glimpse of his eyes through the
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blinds have weakened her. She was madly in love with him. She sat outside for 10 minutes just
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thinking. After pondering what to do Fletcher makes a final decision. Fixing her hair in the
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mirror then reapplying her lipstick, she's ready. She was willing to share him with his wife-
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-but no one else.
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Fletcher found out a week ago that the pastor had been having an affair with Alice in the quire.
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He shouldn't have done that. Fletcher reaches in the armrest and pulls out the chrome revolver.
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She gets out of the car walks up the driveway and rings the doorbell. She says to herself
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"Osceola prison here I come." then the pastor says,
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"It's open, come on in."
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THE END