The Dating Chronicles – The Misconception

The Dating Chronicles

The Misconception

Tom was suspicious when he walked through Donna’s front door but he didn’t say anything.  He had met Donna shortly after his divorce.  His experience with marriage had been a bad one and the pain of betrayal had driven him to bury his emotions so deep as to never see light again.  But after meeting Donna, her spirit wiggled its way into the caverns of his heart and he was again a slave to love and all it called for.

However, on this day, he felt betrayed again as he sat and listened to Donna whispering on the phone in the next room.  She’d had a strange look on her face when she answered the door earlier as if he was the last person she wanted to see and he succeeded in suppressing his anger.  He was accustomed to coming by without calling first, but this time she acted as if his visit was unwelcome.  The longer she talked on the phone, the angrier he got.  Suddenly, without warning, he abruptly stormed out of the door.

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Donna panicked when the doorbell rang.  Tom had been the last person she’d expected to see.  Of all days for him to get off from work early, that was the worst day.  She was planning a surprise party for him to celebrate his recent job promotion and he had shown up in the midst of her decorating the house for the party that night.

When the doorbell rang, she hurriedly tossed all the decorations in a nearby bedroom to keep him from becoming suspicious.  But just at the precise moment that her nerves were settling back to normal, his mother called about a problem with the caterer. When she heard the front door slam shut, she thought he had forgotten something in the car.

When minutes passed and he didn’t return, she looked out the window and saw his car was gone.  After solving the problem with his mother, she hung up and called his cell phone.  There was no answer.  Unfortunately, Tom was unable to be reached until the next day, after the party was over.