*this is my original writing, feedback welcome*
It was the end of the week and I was sitting on the couch watching TV and waiting for her to come home. Whatever was on the screen couldn’t keep my attention, my mind kept bouncing back to her. She had become visibly more bratty and argumentative in recent weeks. It was such a contrast to her usual behavior which was honestly quite perfect. I knew she just got a new job, so some of it was understandable. But during the previous night she had made a not so playful crack about my cooking. That was a one remark too far. It had been too late in the evening for me to do anything about it, but it gave me the whole day to thing about her consequences.
She walked through the door with a tired smile, I wasn’t sure if she could tell from my expression that something was different.
“Come sit down please”, I said calmly.
“Let me change first”, she said dismissively. She failed the first test in under a minute.
“Get your little ass over here right now”, I said sternly and with some volume.
She looked surprised but walked over and sat down; she must’ve thought better of making me ask three times.