Love and Food by K.L. Prince

woman.”
                  “Kyle, trust is earned.  If you want me to trust you again, you need to give me a reason to.  When I ask you where you’ve been, you need to tell me where you’ve been, so that I can trust you.  When you gave my vague answers and then get defensive, it leaves me suspicious.  Can’t you understand that?”
                  “I was out with Barry and the guys.  We went out and had a couple of drinks.  You happy now?” he says, going into the bathroom and slamming the door.
                  She wants to believe what he’s told her, but his behavior is making every alarm she has go off.  If he was just out with his friends, why is he acting so strange?  Why couldn’t he just tell her that in the first place?  Why did he have to make a huge scene and cause an argument? 
                  He’s been acting very strangely for the past couple of weeks.  She’s tried to ignore it, but it’s become too much to ignore any longer.  It wouldn’t be realistic not to wonder if he’s cheating on her again.  She wants to believe that he’s telling her the truth, but the disappearances without explanations has just become too much to put aside.  She has to find out what’s going on.  She needs to know the truth.
                  When Kyle comes out of the bathroom looking angry, she has no choice but to tell him how she’s feeling.  “Kyle, come and sit down.  We need to talk.”
                  “What now, Haillee.  I’m done with all the accusations and the questions,” he says, taking the spot next to her on the sofa.
                  “It’s about the wedding.  We’ve been doing nothing but fighting lately.  I think that we should postpone the wedding.”
                  “Why?  There is nothing going on.  I don’t know how many times I can tell you the same thing.  I don’t know what to do to make you believe me.”
                  “Kyle, I’ve thought about this a lot and it just seems like the right thing to do.  I have a lot on my plate with the restaurant and I just think that putting the wedding off until the reopening of the restaurant is over is the best thing for us right now.”
                  Kyle groans.  “It’s always about the restaurant, isn’t it, Haillee?  Nothing is more important than the restaurant.  Maybe I should ask you about Ethan.  You two seem to be spending an awful lot of time together.”
                  “You’ve got to be kidding me.  There is absolutely nothing going on between me and Ethan.  We’re working together and that’s it.  What you’ve said is not true at all.  The restaurant is important to me, but you know how much you mean to me.  You know what, I just can’t with good conscience go through with the wedding right now.  Not with us being the way that we are.”
                  “You know what?  I don’t have the energy to fight with you.  If you want to postpone the wedding, than that’s what we’ll do.  I honestly don’t really care when it happens.  If it happens tomorrow or next year, I’m fine with it.”
                  “Fine,” she says, not wanting to continue their conversation any further.  She doesn’t know why, but she can’t make eye contact with him.  She can’t bring herself to look him in the eye when she feels so suspicious of him.
                  “Fine.  I’m tired.  I’m going to bed.  I think it’s probably best if I sleep on the sofa tonight.”
                  “Kyle...”
                  “Don’t Haillee.  It will give us time to think.”
                  She doesn’t say anything in response.  She decides that it’s probably better not to protest.  Maybe he’s right anyway and she’s doesn’t want to argue with him any further.  She wonders