Let's Get Married

After finally checking out of the club, Lily could only think about how big of a mistake she had made.

One good thing was she hadn’t spent any money. But she hadn’t slept with a one of the club boys, but with one of clients. But, she thought, who cares who he is, right?

Lily couldn’t stop thinking about this strange new feeling she felt. She realized that she hadn’t even felt this way when Tim first cheated on her

As she is thinking about it, the mobile phone in the bag suddenly rings. Sure enough, it is Tim.

Lily closes her eyes gently, then quickly picks up.

“You have some nerve calling me.”

“Lily how dare you not come home. Where did you go last night?” Tim's grumpy voice rings in her ear.

Lily smiles bitterly, “Why, are you and Jade finished now? Is it my turn?”

“Stopping acting so strange. Wherever you are, I am calling you to tell you that mom will come to the house today. You'd better come back before noon!”

Lily notices that Tim feels no guilty at all. He doesn’t even view Jade as anything but a toy.

Lily knows at that moment that she cannot take this anymore.

For a moment Lily can only admire what a jerk Tim really is. Lily quickly responds, “Why don’t you find Jade and have her met your mother.”

“You...”

Before he finishes, Lily hangs up the phone. She was once so obsessed with his voice. She used to watch the phone all day just so she could hear his voice. Now that sound makes her feel sick.

Thinking of the past also makes Lily makes her sick. She knows that she needs to treat herself with respect and that before she can love again she needs to learn how to love herself.

that she can. As she tries on her clothes and looks at the beautiful

to visit her mother-in-law, but to

But that moment, she is unable to bear the tears in her

shoes in the porch are

at Lily in her new clothes. He stands up from the sofa suddenly, his elegant

still had her clothes from last night in one of the bags. It didn’t

him and takes delight in making him feel uncomfortable. She says, “Tim, I didn’t come back to make up with you. I

shocked, he had always thought Lily to be such a passive person. She had never stood up to him like

“What do you mean”

“Isn’t it obvious?”

get with Jade, you have my

thought he knew how this would play out. Lily would come back to him, say sorry, explain how it was her fault and they would go

smile crosses his face. “Where could you go if you divorce me, Lily. You have nothing but me. How would you live? Didn’t you use

my career for you. I can’t tell you how much

continues, “Can you just give me a little dignity. I thought that I should come here and say this to your face. It may be hard to hear,

to grab her

is old-fashioned, dressed in elegant clothes, and

mother, and Lily's mother-in-law,

slows down. “Mom,

out of politeness and

her shoes and

her lips opens slightly. “Mom, you don't

hoped that Lily and Tim would give her some when they

Don't you appreciate it! If you could have a baby, I wouldn't

it anymore. She yells, “Tim refuses to touch

now, Lily could take her mother-in-law’s insults for Tim, but she had been stupid

does that mean?” Susan looks at her son.