The Pretend Wife (2009)
“He soaked and scrubbed the heads of his golf clubs. He vacuumed the inside of his car. He took an extra shift at the hospital one night for someone who had a kid starring in a play. Everything he did was normal. Perfectly normal. There was nothing I could single out as sulking. We even had sex—good sex—twice that week, as if to say to each other, See, all’s fine. And all was fine, more or less. Peter was busy and I let him be busy.
The only glitch was our movie group. One Friday night a month w...e got together with Faith and Jason and another couple—Bettina, a lispy German woman, and a guy we all called by his last name, Shweers—to watch a movie and discuss it. Shweers, who was raised in Connecticut, first name Gavin, had met Bettina in a foreign-exchange program as sophomores in college and they had been married forever. They always brought great cheese and sausages. Movie night fell on the Friday before I was to leave for the Hulls’ lake house.
Peter and I chatted idly on the drive over—trying to find our normal chirpy rhythm.MoreLess
The only glitch was our movie group. One Friday night a month w...e got together with Faith and Jason and another couple—Bettina, a lispy German woman, and a guy we all called by his last name, Shweers—to watch a movie and discuss it. Shweers, who was raised in Connecticut, first name Gavin, had met Bettina in a foreign-exchange program as sophomores in college and they had been married forever. They always brought great cheese and sausages. Movie night fell on the Friday before I was to leave for the Hulls’ lake house.
Peter and I chatted idly on the drive over—trying to find our normal chirpy rhythm.MoreLess
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