Home Again

On the way out of the courtroom you were already doing your 'slippery' thing. You told my attorney you had chemo at 4 pm and your cancer support group that evening. My attorney said if you had been well enough to cancel your chemo for Tuesday in order to spend the day in court telling the judge lies and getting restraining order against me, you were certainly well enough to cancel it again today. HAH! I hired the right guy! The judge told us to wait until the TRO's were signed and copied before leaving. You started to leave. As you pushed the elevator button, my attorney called out and reminded you that you had been instructed to stay put. HAH! (You didn't have your hearing aids on.)

On the way home my attorney told me to get on the phone and have some men meet me at the house. I called the pastor. He and an elder were there when we arrived. Dad had just gotten home from the men's group luncheon at church and had gone in for what became a mega-nap. I saw you as I drove past the house. I didn't know how to honor the TRO. We were to remain 100 yards from each other's home, workplace and vehicle. I parked several houses away. A neighbor was outside. She asked me if I was okay. I said no and started to cry. I briefly told her what had happened. She said something about being glad she had never gotten married. I could see her point. My attorney was gesturing and calling to me. I walked toward the house. As I looked back I saw my neighbor doubled up in pain on the ground. I was torn: do I go to the attorney or go back to find out what had happened to my neighbor? I decided on the former as I had seen other neighbors walking to help the fallen one. My attorney walked me through the house. Did it look the same? Look carefully. Is everything the way I had left it? You had gotten another neighbor's grown son to help load the van. The pastor and elder sat with you while you packed. The pastor called my other two trio friends to sit with me on the porch. I cried. I didn't want this to happen. How DID this happen? How did we go from you badgering me to give you money to hire a lawyer and move out to a judge throwing you out of the house and the two of us having mutual restraining orders? We had passed 'Go' and I hadn't collected $200, not even a Community Chest card. Why was your first move Domestic Violence? This was irreparable. We had a court date set to extend or terminate the TRO's on June 28. For the time being, I had the 'Get Out of Jail Free' card.