day 9 Resentful / The Bigger Person
The Bigger Person
“James, I want to be the bigger person here.” Lily says.
James opens his mouth. A finger presses to his lips. “Nggggmh”
Lily rounds on him, “Don’t say it. I know I look like I swallowed a Romanian horntail’s egg.”
“Nmmmmmmnng.” Her finger is still pressed against his mouth.
“I’m unfairly resentful, and I bloody well know it and I hate it, but I can’t help myself, James.”
He tries another mumbling attempt to calm his wife down, all he manages is “Lily,” before she cuts him off.
“I never even liked them, you know? And now that I can’t have them, they’re all I can think about. I dream about them, baked, cooked, scrambled, poached, even roasted ashwinder eggs.”
Lily pouts and James hovers uncertain of what to do. “A mean ashwinder egg pancake would be just the thing…”
Before he has too much time to think of something to say, or do, she smiles brightly at him (he’s still not used to these mood swings, if he’s completely honest). “Slithering Skittles, I know I can have those, I can even have them raw. Oh, I love how they crunch between my teeth.”