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looked over at her, taking in her pale
complexion and tired eyes.
    “ Everything
okay?” I asked in concern, kicking myself for not noticing when I
walked in. I could add self-centred to the list of my
flaws.
    “ Things have
been difficult with Charlie lately but its really escalated in
these last few days. He’s been spending a couple nights a week in
the city lately. He never answers my calls now when he’s gone.
We’ve started arguing about things that were never a problem
before. Apparently, he no longer likes my cooking or even the way I
make the bed.” She shook her head in confusion, her boyfriend’s
actions not making any sense in the least. “It’s like a flip has
been switched in him and nothing I do now is good enough. He’s
pulling away and I really am at a loss for what to do about
it.”
    “ He doesn’t
like the way you make the bed?” I repeated. They had been together
years and years. It seemed like a strange thing for him to all of a
sudden start complaining about. Her cooking I understood a little
more. No one but Charlie had ever eaten Maddie’s cooking. She’d
once made us cookies in High School that we’d used later as hockey
putts. Charlie had been the only one who had eaten one and
complimented her. I’d tossed mine at Nate’s head. I never heard
Charlie criticize her cooking though. I wondered why he’d finally
snapped.
    “ That’s all you
took from my outburst? The bit about the bed.” Maddie said. I
quickly ran over all the other things she’d told me, trying
desperately to grasp hold of something else I could comment on for
her.
    “ Do you think
he’s struggling at work or something?” I asked, afraid to suggest
the obvious alternative as to why a man usually started pulling
away. They were too happy a couple for Charlie to be wanting out.
Maddie was the best woman Charlie could ever hope of landing. She
was way out of his league. He’d only caught her because he’d reeled
her in when she was young and didn’t know better.
    “ No,” she said
softly.
    “ What do you
think is going on with him then?”
    “ I think I
better ask him before I start guessing. Cause hopefully the truth
won’t be worse then what I’m thinking right now.”
    “ I hope so
too.” I continued, “you know if anything happens and you want to
get away for a little while you are always welcome to come and stay
with me in Toronto.”
    She smiled sadly at me.
    “ I know, Logan.
You’re a good friend.”
    “ You’re my best
friend.” I gave her a comforting hug.
    I left her place a couple hours
later to make it home in time for dinner with Nate. I only hoped he
had picked another recipe from my book, it was so flattering.
    “ Smells good,”
I called as I walked through the door, taking off my coat and
heading towards the kitchen. Nate was busy chopping vegetables, his
eyes teary as he diced onion.
    “ Overcome with
emotion to see me?” I teased and grabbed a glass of water. I took a
seat at the kitchen counter to watch him cook. Why was a handsome
man cooking so sexy? Then again, Nate doing most things was sexy.
Even dicing onions with tears in his eyes. There was something
wrong with me. According to Ollie, there were several things wrong
with me.
    “ How’s Maddie?”
He asked curiously, he saw more of her than me these
days.
    “ Why do you
ask?” I replied suspiciously, his face more impassive than
usual.
    “ Charlie came
by today,” his voice was tight, his eyes focused intently on the
veggies he was dicing.
    “ He’s being
difficult lately I hear,” I said, a sinking feeling in my gut
taking form as I realised where Nate was going. He was about to
tell something I wasn’t going to like.
    “ He’s leaving
her.” Nate finally looked up at me. I put my head in my hands and
took a few deep breaths. It was like hearing your mother and father
were divorcing. Maddie and Charlie had been together so long for a
couple their age. Before this trip, I barely remembered them