#5
"I am not going up there with you." It was an echo of the words she hadn't said out loud last night. Now he knew for sure, she wasn't just refusing to climb a monument, she was refusing to come upstate with him. Last night when he finally told her about the job he'd accepted she had seemed genuinely happy even though he had waited until they were on vacation to tell her about it. They both agreed that is was the right choice for him. But she wasn't coming with him. No, she didn't want a divorce, she just didn't see why she should have to leave her career or her life behind. He looked down at the small speck that was Kathy on the ground below the temple. She was his wife, he didn't want to live separated from her. True, the demands of careers had made them spend a lot of time apart, but that was part of the dissatisfaction that had led to him accepting the job upstate. He had built it up in his head, he would rescue them from the rat race of the city, they would reconnect and have the kind of marriage he had spent the last 5 years waiting to magically happen, but never did. He was tired of treating his marriage like a sound investment, to have and hold and then retire comfortably with. He wanted a marriage in the present tense. He didn't what to be up here, while she stayed down there.
