Married Life
Written by: Aniket
“You had to bring him up here, didn’t you?” Susan said as Rufus ran circles around her
“What else was I supposed to do? Leave him alone at home while we go hiking for two days?” Mark defended.
“We could have left him with Sharon.”
“You know he hates Sharon!”
“He’s a dog! I’m sure he can adjust for a couple of days”
“Oh so he’s just a dog now?” Mark turned to Susan, “And who says ‘Come to Mommy’ a million times a day?”
“You know I love him and didn’t mean it like that. He is not just a dog, but he is getting old and I don’t know if he’ll be able to go through the trip.”
“He is not old. Look at him running those circles around you.”
“He is eight, Mark. That’s like 80 in dog years.”
“Dogs don’t have their calenders. Eight years is just eight years. He’s in the best shape of his life. Aren’t you Rufy?”
Rufus let his tongue out and wiggled his tail.
“See. He agrees” Mark proudly flashed his whites.
“Don’t you agree that your Paa is a stubborn old man, Rufus?” asked Susan with her hands on her waist.
Rufus turned to her and wiggled his tail again.
“And he agrees” she retorted.
“Guess you’ll be staying at Sharon’s next time, eh?” Mark gruffed.
With that Rufus sprinted across to the other side of the bridge.
“Told you he didn’t like Sharon”, Mark grinned, “I’ll go ahead and see he doesn’t wander off too far.”
“Wait for me Mark. I can’t cross this bridge on my own.”
“Guess Rufus ain’t the only one getting old.”
“Its got nothing to do with my age. I’m scared of heights.”
“Why the hell did you agree to go on a trek then? What did you think, we’ll be going to the middle earth?”, said Mark, who was already half-way across the bridge.
“I can see now that it was clearly a mistake. Now you’re coming back here or what?”
“I better check on Rufus first. Come on wifey, you can do it. Its just a bridge.” Mark got off the bridge and went after Rufus.
“Mark. I demand you come back here… please. Please, come back. Mark! Maaaark! There’ll be no breakfast for you for a month. Six months! I mean it!”