The rest of the day was uneventful. At around six Katherine went out with her friends and Jack got dressed for a dinner being held to honor a colleague. Jack chose to be a clinical doctor because it would give him more time with his family and as such sacrificed his chance at scientific research and the possibility of curing diseases and winning prizes. Even worse than facing his more successful colleagues, he had to face them and their trophy wives alone now that he was divorced.
Jack walked past the living room and was surprised to find Ashlin sitting on the couch with a bucket of ice cream in front of the television.
‘You’re not going out tonight sweetie?” Jack asked.
“No.” Ashlin said sadly. She turned and saw Jack in his thousand dollar suit. ‘Wow you, look great! You can pick up some really hot babes tonight.” She told him.
‘Na it’s just gonna be a boring dinner with boring people who are mostly old and married.” Jack said pessimistically. “You wanna go?” Jack said jokingly.
“Okay!” Ashlin replied enthusiastically. “Give me fifteen minutes to get dressed.” She said running off to her room before Jack could get a word in.
A half hour later Ashlin came down the steps with her hair up, make up done, donning a classy yet revealing tan colored dress, showing off her thin frame and exposing a good amount of her cleavage. She grabbed onto Jack’s arm and smiled a beautiful smile, with her shining white teeth, exotic jade eyes, and glossy lips, she was the most beautiful thing in the world to Jack right then. “Shall we go?” She said. Jack escorted her to his car and the two headed off to the dinner.
At the banquet everyone commented on Jack’s beautiful date, it was an interesting night that brought Jack and Ashlin closer together. The two seemed to be the most childish ones there and ended up having a lot of fun. Ashlin had enjoyed being an adult for a night, abusing her privileges at the open bar and Jack was happy to not have anyone pity him over the divorce.
It was late at night when the two arrived home; they stumbled inside laughing over an incident involving a heavy lady and the dance floor that had occurred at the party, they tried there best to not wake up Katherine.
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