Dead Flowers

Emily is staring at the flowers on the table Jim bought her days before he left six months ago. It sums up her feelings in this world where her garden is all dried up and dying, decaying just like her love life that she thought was as perfect as her small yard full of beautiful flowers. Judging by the remains of his leaving many believe she was wrong, she still hasn’t made up her mind just yet, whether it’s wrong or right. Jim drives by the house every morning on his way to work leaving her to think he’s coming back forgetting that he has to drive by to go to the business they started years ago together in their garage out back. Now it’s a promising dealership with three salesmen, two mechanics including Jim and a beautiful young flower named Daisy the reason Jim left Emily. Behind Jim’s desk in his office is a broken glass frame of Emily and him that got broken accidentally the evening Daisy made her move on him. He took her right there on the desk that his wife bought him for their 2nd anniversary for being in that location. It was more than he wanted but he had worked so hard to become more than just a one-man mechanics garage she thought he deserved it. Maybe she would have thought better for it had she noticed the broken frame behind the new desk. Daisy had only been there less than a year when she decided that Jim was a catch and despite his having a hands-on wife, she wanted him for her own. Her long luxurious hair was just enticing enough to clearly make Jim swoon at the notion of it and as Daisy’s got deeper red and silky like a nice blush of rose, Emily’s was getting rather gray, lifeless and dull and losing its biggest fan in the process despite whatever came out of Jim’s mouth to the contrary. Emily didn’t notice till the week Jim packed up and moved out just days after the flowers were delivered leaving her to wonder if they weren’t some kind of consolation prize to his departure. Daisy won but was it worth it to their lives in the long run? Emily sure didn’t think so after all she knew Jim and his quirks, his likes/dislikes, his preferences of how she would wear her hair, how to cut it just so for him to enjoy Daisy didn’t know how she these were things learned over twenty years with Jim. Now here she sits her dead flowers everywhere miles from the love of her life and his new flower, Daisy.