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- Story Listed as: Fiction For Adults
- Theme: Love stories / Romance
- Subject: Life Changing Decisions/Events
- Published: 08/10/2014
The Dinner Party
Born 1986, M, from San Antonio, United StatesAntoinette and Carlo had fallen in love since they met. They had a special, pure kind of love that could not be measured nor destroyed. Then war came and Carlo was shipped off into a faraway country and Antoinette would never see him again. He was presumed dead in combat.
Antoinette mourned Carlo for many years and kept all of their pictures and mementos stored away in a box deep in the attic. She could never truly forget him, nor stop loving him, but she eventually remarried and had a small family. A baby girl, Emily, and a 3-year-old boy named Tom. Her husband, Franklin, was a successful businessman and provided a very comfortable life for her and their children. With the many business contacts that Franklin had came many party and dinner invitations.
There was one particular party that stood out above all the others. It was just another cold December day and Antoinette and her husband would be joining his business associate, Mr. Jacob Styles, for dinner in his home. The children would be staying with her mother for the evening.
“Good evening, Mr. Styles,” Antoinette greeted him with a warm embrace and her husband followed with a firm handshake.
“I’m very glad you could join us, please, come inside and I will introduce you to the other guests.”
Among the guests were doctors, lawyers, a sheriff, and other public officials, as well as some friends of theirs from upstate. There was, however, a man that struck Antoinette. His presence captured her attention and she could not stray away from his vicinity. He looked strangely familiar and she stuck close by his conversation with other guests to listen in for a clue as to why she felt this way.
“After the attack, no one thought we would make it…but we did, only three of us survived out of 20 men…but I was nearly dead and the doc told me that I was suffering from amnesia and that I would not remember many things, including the attack. I only know what I am telling you because of the other soldiers that survived. They told me what had happened after I recovered. They said that the head trauma had changed my facial expressions and even my voice, haha; that I sounded like a different man. And after that, well here I am, Uncle Sam brought me back and I found a job, and got back to civilian life.”
Antoinette’s breath was stolen from her. It was Carlo! She thought to herself. He had changed, she hadn’t noticed him at the dinner table, he may have entered late, but he had her full attention now. Was he still the same man that I fell in love with so many years ago? she wondered.
“Honey, it’s getting late, let’s pick up the kids and go home,” she whispered in Franklin’s ear.
The Dinner Party(Carlos Salinas)
Antoinette and Carlo had fallen in love since they met. They had a special, pure kind of love that could not be measured nor destroyed. Then war came and Carlo was shipped off into a faraway country and Antoinette would never see him again. He was presumed dead in combat.
Antoinette mourned Carlo for many years and kept all of their pictures and mementos stored away in a box deep in the attic. She could never truly forget him, nor stop loving him, but she eventually remarried and had a small family. A baby girl, Emily, and a 3-year-old boy named Tom. Her husband, Franklin, was a successful businessman and provided a very comfortable life for her and their children. With the many business contacts that Franklin had came many party and dinner invitations.
There was one particular party that stood out above all the others. It was just another cold December day and Antoinette and her husband would be joining his business associate, Mr. Jacob Styles, for dinner in his home. The children would be staying with her mother for the evening.
“Good evening, Mr. Styles,” Antoinette greeted him with a warm embrace and her husband followed with a firm handshake.
“I’m very glad you could join us, please, come inside and I will introduce you to the other guests.”
Among the guests were doctors, lawyers, a sheriff, and other public officials, as well as some friends of theirs from upstate. There was, however, a man that struck Antoinette. His presence captured her attention and she could not stray away from his vicinity. He looked strangely familiar and she stuck close by his conversation with other guests to listen in for a clue as to why she felt this way.
“After the attack, no one thought we would make it…but we did, only three of us survived out of 20 men…but I was nearly dead and the doc told me that I was suffering from amnesia and that I would not remember many things, including the attack. I only know what I am telling you because of the other soldiers that survived. They told me what had happened after I recovered. They said that the head trauma had changed my facial expressions and even my voice, haha; that I sounded like a different man. And after that, well here I am, Uncle Sam brought me back and I found a job, and got back to civilian life.”
Antoinette’s breath was stolen from her. It was Carlo! She thought to herself. He had changed, she hadn’t noticed him at the dinner table, he may have entered late, but he had her full attention now. Was he still the same man that I fell in love with so many years ago? she wondered.
“Honey, it’s getting late, let’s pick up the kids and go home,” she whispered in Franklin’s ear.
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