She looks at him with
discount ugg boots a contempt that is totally new. "Why?" she repeats in an incredulous hard voice.
"Let me guess," he says. "You're pregnant."
Surprise softens the hardness a moment.
"That's great," he says, and takes advantage of her softness to push her ahead of him into the room. Just from the touches of pushing he remembers what Ruth feels like in his arms. "Great," he repeats, closing the door.
discount ugg boots He tries to embrace her and she fights him successfully and backs away behind a chair. She had meant that fight; his neck is scraped.
"Go away," she says. "Go away."
"Don't you need me?"
"Need you," she cries, and he squints in pain at the straining note of hysteria; he feels she has imagined this encounter so often she is determined
ugg boots australia to say everything, which will be too much. He sits down in an easy chair. His legs ache. She says, "I needed you that night you walked out. Remember how much I needed you? Remember what you made me do?"
"She was in the hospital," he says. "I had to go."
"God, you're cute. God, you're so holy. You had to
buy uggs online cheap go. You had to stay, too, didn't you? You know, I was stupid enough to think you'd at least call."
"I wanted to but I was trying to start clean. I didn't know you were pregnant."
"You didn't, why not? Anybody else would have. I was sick enough."
"When, with me?"
"God, yes. Why don't you look outside your own pretty skin once
discount ugg boots in a while?"
"Well why didn't you tell me?"
"Why should I? What would that have done? You're no help. You're nothing. You know why I didn't? You'll laugh, but I didn't because I thought you'd leave me if you knew. You wouldn't ever let me do anything to prevent it but I figured once it happened you'd leave me. You
discount ugg boots left me anyway so there you are. Why don't you get out? Please get out. I begged you to get out the first time. The damn first time I begged you. Why are you here?"
"I want to be here. It's right. Look. I'm happy you're pregnant."
