Tuckamore Bay

baby talk

Matty shook her head.

"I was a young woman from Tuckamore Bay, living in the big city. I was a nobody. A wildflower. The boys weren't interested in me. I didn't dress sexy or cover myself in makeup or party hearty. I just stayed in my dorm room and studied.

Cameron was the first guy who paid me any attention and I guess I fell for him."

Matty took some napkins from the bar and wiped her face.

"You want me to get you a facecloth?"

Matty shook her head.

"No. I want to finish this."

She took a mouthful of scotch and stared for a moment into her glass.

"I fell hard for Cameron. I thought he was the real thing. But he wasn't.

As time went by, I could see a change in him. He spent less time with me and made excuses, so he did not have to spend time with me and then there was the night I caught him fucking my roommate."

"I'm sorry."

"No."

Matty forced a smile.

"What do you have to be sorry for, Bill?"

"I just don't like seeing you hurt."

"He did hurt me. He tore my fucking heart out. And then, he tried to blame the whole fucking thing on me, with that old fucking guy thing about how he had needs and he had to fulfill them and he wanted me to be the one to do so, but ..."

Matty wiped her eyes again and took another deep breath.

"But instead, he decided to let my slut of a roommate fulfill his needs. And that was that. I moved out of the dorm and stayed with a cousin, until I finished my course. I then took my Provincial bar Exam and aced it and set up my practice in Corner Brook. Last I heard of Cameron, he failed his bar exam."

Matty finished her drink.

"That was over four years ago and in all honesty, Bill, I have never thought of him since."

Bill got up from the armchair and walked into the kitchen. He poured a fresh coffee and walked to the bar. He poured some Irish Creme into the coffee.

"Are you going to say anything?"

"I just need to know one thing."

"What?"

"Has Cameron's sudden appearance, on the scene, changed the way you feel about me."

Tears filled Matty's eyes.

"No. My God no."

Matty put her glass on the bar and took the mug from Bill's hand. She then took Bill's hands in hers.

"I love you more than life itself. You are the only man I want to be with and you are the man I will spend my life with.

No one will ever come between you and me. Everything I told you is the truth, as I am sure Nanny Dove told you."