Hope You Had Fun

He had said that he was busy the whole day before and so she decided to go to the park all by herself. She didn’t care how lame it seemed that she would be sitting there in the grass all by herself as she ate her homemade tuna fish dorito sandwich. But they’d probably be more judgmental of her sandwich than who wasn’t keeping her company.

She went to the site, grass green as could be and trimmed down to the inch. The trees were blowing with a warm breeze that wouldn’t cause shivers but would cause comfort. She put down her blanket and that’s when a chill ran down her spine.

It made no sense. It was warm out. Is it going to rain?

That’s when she turned around and saw someone who made her eyes go wide. Dan?

“Dan? Is that you?” And that’s when she realized that it was in fact him. He was rushing towards her with a giant smile on his face. “I thought you had to work.” She said, still going to hug him.

“Yeah I finished early. I wanted to surprise you.” He said, hugging her tightly before moving away.

“Well this is definitely a surprise.” She said, happy but wary. But nonetheless she kept the gigantic smile on her face.

“You didn’t think I would let my wife eat lunch alone did you?” His eyes were fixed on her face but she saw his eyes wander down to her stomach area for a moment. She couldn’t help but feel a little uncomfortable.

She distracted herself by getting out the food and watching him from the corner of her eye here and there. But he didn’t seem to be too off because he was just waiting for his food and smiling at her like he did often.

The hours went by fast as they had a wonderful time just sitting and eating their strange sandwiches and chatting. He had even brought some kind of juice with him that tasted sort of strange.

They had always been the kind to be comfortable with each other but she noticed that he was oddly too comfortable.

She hadn’t seen him this carefree since he started his job that took a lot of his energy away from him.

But once it got dark, they packed everything up and started for their way home. She was feeling sort of tired once they got in the car so Dan was the one that drove and she didn’t remember much from that drive.

She remembered getting home and him setting her down on the bed. But after that she passed black out, no idea why this would have happened.

She awoke, a text on her phone but since it didn’t show the message on the lock screen and the clock said that she was late for her job, she rushed up and went to go get ready. But she had to stop for a moment when a drastic pain came through her whole body and started from around her hip.

Must have gotten up too fast.

She took one look at her husband in bed, still sleeping, before continuing to get ready.

She was so late that she decided not to risk waking Dan up and went on her way, grabbing her phone and opening it up once she was out the door and walking down the street. Her side was still hurting like hell but she kept going.

She thought maybe she should send a playful message about how she enjoyed their time yesterday.

And that’s when she saw the message on her phone. She stopped. It was from Dan, only about twenty minutes ago. She whispered the words out. “So sorry that I couldn’t be there for lunch yesterday. Work ran really late and I'm only getting home now. Hope you had fun.” Her heart started to pulse as she looked up at her apartment window.

She slowly brought up her shirt, noticing stitching running up from her hip to the bottom of her rib. Her mind was racing, looking back at the message and then rushing up back towards the apartment.

When she got there, no one was in the bed and there was a note sitting on her stand. She only just now noticed the blood that was smeared on Dan’s side of the bed.

The world around her was slowing down as she picked up the note and saw that only two words were written.

Not Dan.