The Job Goes First

Christmas and the New Year have gone by.  There are more letters arriving from the bank for Girl about the Mortgage with Boy and the house where the kids live.  More arrears.  Questions Boy will not answer.  Eventually some payments are made because the letters stop after a month or so.  And then, out of the blue, Boy invites Girl to have coffee so that they can talk.  Girl is extremely suspicious because in all the time they have been divorced, this has never happened.  The kids are alright in school, their health is fine, there is nothing to actually have a discussion about except the mortgage arrears and why they are happening.  Funny though, the kids had mentioned that their father had been home more to drive them to school and pick them up more on time at MammaMia’s.  Girl chalked this up to it being winter and golf season had yet to start.  The previous year had been the same, a little quieter with more vacation time.