Miranda knew that Thomas had told her to make Brettly sweat a little before she forgave him but she really couldn’t.  She knew early on he was always flirting with other girls.  She had spent many nights crying herself to sleep waiting for Brettly to come home to her not knowing if being in another woman’s bed is what was keeping him so late.  She learned years later that it was because he just wanted to make her jealous and to hurt his feelings.  In the beginning she never understood why he thought punishing her for him having to marry him was really fair, it wasn’t like she wanted to marry him either but she never treated him like that.  Of course she yelled at him when she was pissed off.<br/><br/>“I felt the same way every time you flirted with those women.”  Miranda said with a smirk, “Most of them only flirted once after I got through with them.”  She sighed when he talked about Thomas because she never told him the complete truth.  No she had never had an affair with Thomas, but there had been a time that she almost did until Thomas convinced her that really was not what she or he really wanted.  She was pretty sure it took all that Thomas had not too though because he had been so pissed at Brettly that night.<br/><br/>Miranda had stopped eating the food that was in front of her and she started to cry a little as she was about to confess something to Brettly and she hoped that he would not get mad at Thomas.  Nothing had happened and Thomas and Brettly had already had a fight, even if it wasn’t really about what they almost did.<br/><br/>“I hope you can forgive me for what I am about to say.”  Miranda sighed, “I remember that night like it was just yesterday and sometimes I wish that was one of the things I had forgotten.”  Miranda continued as the tears started to fall, “Thomas and I had stopped for a light dinner at a Mexican restaurant on a part of town that we had never been before.  We were shopping for your birthday.” Miranda always worried about Brettly’s birthday even if he never cared about hers back then.  “I was trying to plan a surprise party for you and Thomas was helping me get everything done.  While we were sitting in the restaurant talking and waiting on our food I had heard some laughing and when I looked up there you were with some tight dressed redheaded woman whose breasts where just falling all over the place.  You had told me that you had a business meeting so when I saw you there I instantly got jealous, because the woman was all over you and you were letting her.  I was you wife and you never let me hang all over you in public that way always afraid of the media you would say.”  Miranda continued with a little hint of anger in her voice as she remembered.<br/><br/>“I was doing fine with that until she leaned over and kissed you and you kissed her back.  That was the last straw and I would not have cared if she would have been a long lost sister, or ex girlfriend from grade school.  I was mad and I took a hold of Thomas’s hand right there in the restaurant and pulled him out of the seat and kissed him.  Not even caring if you saw.”  Miranda let out a loud sigh as she continued her rant.<br/><br/>“The next thing I remember was we were both in the nearest hotel room and I was trying to strip off his clothes and he was doing the same to me.  I was mad and all I cared about was if you were going to cheat on me then I was going to cheat on you.  At least I could be with someone who at least cared about me.”<br/><br/>Miranda knew she needed to go on and tell her whole story and there was no point in stopping now.  “We had finally gotten everything off except the under clothes when Thomas pushed me away and told me that they really didn’t want to do this.  It was just the anger at Brettly that was driving them too it.  And at that point I finally had to admit to him that he was right.”<br/><br/>Miranda had at some point moved the tray of food she had not finished onto the floor and she was looking at her hands as she told the story thinking that Brettly was going to freak out on her.  “That was the only time anything happened between us.  It was a couple of days later on your birthday when you guys got into that huge fight that I thought was going to end your friendship.”<br/><br/>At this point Miranda had forgotten all about the movie he had put in and the food she never finished.  She was in full blown tears at this point.  As far as she knew she could have already told Brettly the story, but she couldn’t remember.  She had moved to be lying down in the bed with her back facing Brettly preparing herself for his explosion.  Before the explosion had a chance to happen she heard Alfred at the door and she could not help but smile at the old man she loved dearly.  She watched Brettly walk over and get the journal from Alfred and bring it back and sat it on the table.<br/><br/>“Night Alfred, thank you very much and I am glad to be home too.”  Miranda said with a smile, trying to hide her tear stained face.  Miranda watched as Brettly set her journal down next to her and she could not help but notice a piece of paper that was sticking out of it.  When Miranda reached over to her journal she grabbed the paper, slipping it out of the journal she began to read it and started to cry all over again.  It was very true right out of Thomas’s mouth Brettly really loved her.  She rolled over and showed Brettly the paper, “So you really did miss me and want me back?”