A Proper Apology (locked to Karen Vick)

[sbpd_papabear]

He's been an idiot, and unlike most men he's absolutely sure of it when he has been. Maybe not at the time, but soon enough after the fact that if he's lucky - when he's lucky - he can make up for it... and hopefully not lose what he had hoped would be the second love of his life.

The girl... he couldn't even remember her name after what happened... she had been a mistake pure and simple. He had no right looking at a girl that young. And really, he had no place looking at someone that wasn't the woman who held his heart.

He'd gone the only way he knew how - a bouquet of roses and a bottle of wine laced with apologies sitting beside him in the truck as he waited until Iris' window went dark and only a small living room lamp remained lit.

With a deep breath, prepared for the worst, he knocks at her door and waits for her to answer it.

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[chief_mom]

She knows it's Henry. She saw his truck pull up when she was pulling the shade in Iris' room. No one on her street drives a truck like his. No one in the whole neighborhood does. But that's Henry, an iconoclast, without apology.

Well, hopefully not completely without apology. She has some to make, she hopes he does too.

"Hi," is all she says when she opens the door. She'd like to say more. She'd like to kiss him. But she plays it cool.