Dear Ex-wife Marry Me by Twin Bridge

Shirley had barely stepped off the plane when her phone buzzed with a call from James, informing her that Abner had been assaulted.

She thought she'd misheard. Abner, always so mild-mannered and non-confrontational, getting into a fight?

Rushing to the hospital, she spotted James in the hallway.

"Mr. James."

"Shirley!"

James, visibly shaken and with a trembling voice, blurted out, "He was rushed into the ER last night. He's stable now, just a minor concussion, but he's lost quite a bit of weight. Go see him." Shirley, heart pounding, hurried into Abner's room.

Abner, awake with bandages wrapped around his head and looking pale, barely whispered, "Shirley?"

"Abner!" Shirley's eyes instantly welled up with tears.

"What happened? How did you end up fighting?"

Abner hung his head in silence, but James couldn't hold back and spilled everything about how Abner's background had been exposed.

Shirley was taken aback. The ordeal had been ongoing for two months, with Abner facing isolation at school, yet he hadn't breathed a word of it to her.

"Shirley, don't get mad. It wasn't Abner who sought trouble. It was a few boys from another class who cornered him."

Abner's hand. "Why didn't you

want

Shirley felt an acute pain in

he be so

James and I will handle some things at

was stern, signaling her intent to get to

at her sleeve,

patted his head, careful

okay, I'll

a weak smile, Abner lay

flurry, Shirley was confronted with a shocking sight on the sports field

out of our

Shirley trembled with rage.

school is letting

his

looking into it, but when this first happened two months ago, a group of parents petitioned to have Abner moved to

wrong. Why should

down. I know how

you

kept up his grades

He's too understanding, and that's why