Normally I waited up for my wife whenever she went out but I was really tired tonight and so got into bed early. Also, we had, had a fight before she left and so I wasn’t really in the mood for a drunken ‘round 2’.
I was drifting off to sleep when I heard a car pull up outside. I listened as the car door opened to reveal sounds of giggling. It was my wife returning later than I had expected. I was too tired to make an issue of it and so decided to pretend to be asleep.
I heard her stumble into the house and eventually make her way upstairs. She came into the bedroom and slipped herself under the covers beside me. I had my back to her and so gave a momentary shiver as I felt the chill of her cold naked body against mine. She wrapped her arm around me, at which point I turned to face her, met by the slightly sickly smell of stale alcohol. She smiled.
‘Hey baby, you didn’t wait up’ she said.
‘Sorry’, I said.