Day 63: Tales Of Spilled Wine And Maternal Honesty
Day 63: Tales Of Spilled Wine And Maternal Honesty
Day 63 Of How To Move On From A Man — 1LD
I opened the front door.
Only minutes earlier I had a slight catastrophe with a bottle of pinot noir, that I had saved in my newly delivered wine fridge for a special occasion. I blamed the cork.
Not many wineries still used corks, but this one did. I hadn’t opened a bottle like this since my late teens when I worked at the high-end cinemas, manning the bar.
I had it mastered then, but now I wasn’t so confident.
As the bottle slipped from my grasp and crashed to the floor, my confidence shattered with it.
Of course, Barbie, James’ mother, arrived just after it happened, when I hadn’t quite mopped up what looked like a crime scene. And James was still in the shower, not helping me prepare for her arrival.
This whole living together thing was going oh-so-well.
Fine, ok, I’ll drop the sarcasm.
“Sorry Barbie, come in. Mind the red wine.”
She looked my home up and down. I realised she had never been here before. We had always met at James’ apartment.
“My dear, what a wonderful home you have. Better than the hole of an apartment James was in. I always told him never to stay there. He insisted, though.”
She handed me a bouquet of purple iris’. “Oh thank you, aren’t they beautiful?”
“From my garden. They used to grow outside his block too, but some monster poisoned them.”
I set the flowers on the kitchen bench and clambered for the mop. As I attempted to remove the pooling liquid on the floor, I asked Barbie about James’ recent departure.
“What do you think of this whole getting kicked out situation?”
“It’s a tragedy. When families can’t accept each other for who they are, then what hope does the rest of the world have? It’s not that hard to love someone. It takes more energy to hate them.”
James entered the kitchen, looking fresh and unaffected by the mess.
“Barbie, you’re always full of wisdom. It’s a shame my aunty can’t be more like you.”
His mother laughed.
“Well, could you really handle having two of me? Because I’m about to spend the night berating the both of you about getting your shit sorted.”
Oh, fuck.
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