I wake up to the sun peaking through the curtains. I turn over to stretch my arm over to the other side of the bed.

It’s empty.

Opening my eyes, I find out that he is once again, gone. I scrunch my nose and rub my eyes. What the fuck Mark! I thought as I look at the clock.

7:53

Sighing, I get out of bed and go downstairs to search the house. He’s nowhere to be found. Once I grab the phone I dial a familiar number.

Ring….

Ring….

Ring….

Ring….

Ring….

……. “Hey it’s Mark, leave a message.”

I hung up the phone in anger, “What the fuck!”, I say out loud to myself.

Ever since he lost his job he’s just been digging himself into a deeper hole. I almost want to say that I’m starting not to trust him. How do I know he’s not cheating on me? I don’t want to sound like his mother, but it’d be nice if he told me where he was going or if he was even coming home. He could be dead for all I know.

I try to erase the horrible thoughts from my head by making a cup of coffee. However, as soon as the first drop of coffee hit the bottom of my mug, the phone rang. Please be him, please be him! I run to the phone and look at the caller ID. “Alice”

“Hey Al”

“Tina! What are you doing right now?”

“I was just about to pour a cup of coffee. Why, what’s up?”

“Ok put the cup of coffee down cause you and Mark are gonna come have breakfast with me. There’ s a new café that just opened up today and I want to try it out.”

“There’s a new café?”

“Yeah, it’s called like Jupiter or Saturn or something.”

I chucked out loud, “Oh yeah yeah yeah, The Planet.”

“Yeah whatever, just get dressed and let me know when you’re on your way.”

“Alright I’ll talk to ya in a bit.”

I hung up the phone and headed back upstairs to get ready.

*******

We sit down across from each other and immediately were approached by our waitress.