Per John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and George Harrison, “one is the loneliest number that you'll ever do.”
“Louis! Loius Litt!” He heard a female voice from behind. He turned around and she slapped him right in the face. Louis touched his cheek.
‘Great! Could this day get any worse? This would probably leave a mark,’ he thought. He looked at the infuriated woman trying to recall whether she was the wife of someone who he had won in a case against, a client who thought the settlement was beneath her, or mistress who had got cut out of a man’s will.
Then he recognized the same piercing blue eyes from the other night. It was her! The crazy cat lady! His mind raced a mile a minute. He probably needed some sort of restraining order against her. He could file for assault, but probably shouldn’t since he had screwed her first. Not to mention that, Mike and Harvey would get a kick out of him being beaten by a girl.
He looked at her more intently. She looked tired and weary. There was so much sadness in her big blue eyes and he felt her pain. In fact all he wanted to do was to take the pain away.
“I’m sorry for not showing up on our date. I was an idiot!” He said trying to assure her that he knew who she was and he knew what he had done.
“That was the one night in months that I had some time off from work and from taking care of my daughter and you stood me up you jerk,” she said trying to fight back tears. Louis awkwardly held her in his arms trying to calm her.
“I was so ecstatic, that I had found a great guy who expressed interest in me and when one of the kid’s in my daughter’s class accidentally spilled juice on me, my friend convinced me to go through with the date because she knew that I liked you based on your profile and you didn’t even have the decency to call,” she continued.
“I know! I’m the biggest jackass in the world right now and I hate myself for what I did to you. I saw your dishevelled look and assumed you were a crazy cat lady. I’m so sorry! I’m a bad person.” He said.
“You are an idiot! I was wearing the biggest sweater I could find in that classroom,” She said laughing for the first time playfully hitting his chest. He looked down at the woman he was still holding, she was beautiful. He had been crazy to have almost not have met her, thankfully faith had intervened.
“Please give me another chance. Go out on a date with me. I don’t even care if you wear that cat sweater in public all the time. I promise I’ll make it up to you,” he pleaded.
The woman nodded and rest her head on his shoulders. No one would say it at that very moment, but they both knew that they had found their soulmate.
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