Next door to me, the empty apartment had a new tenant. She's into dark magic. We become instant friends, but in my gut something, something ain't right.

I tell her what's been going on. She was easy to talk to, surprisingly. I give her a pic of my hubby and feathers she requested.

"I don't want him to be crazy, gay or cheat on me." Okay, I sounded foolish.

On the eve of our anniversary, our relationship is beautiful. 

"Bae you'll look better if you cut your hair," he suggests over a romantic dinner.

He wants to turn me into a tomboy.

I. Said. "No!"

He left, angry.

Why were the memories of just a week ago fucking with me like gnats on a sweaty summer day.

"We're you hiding your truth, your true you? When we met, what version of Kenny presented itself? Why else would you ask a woman you promised to love, honor and protect to dress, think, act and look like a boy?"

I felt the bike rising in my throat as a fake white Jesus looked down on me from the enormous wall behind the podium...

Yet the memories sent waves of naseau through my exhausted body. I haven't stopped crying myself awake and asleep since...

Since...

I ran into the psychic bitch at the store.

"He's still cheating. Wants me to dress like a man," I told her. Sounding like a dam fool.

"He's not your husband," she said.

I was confused. 

"Yes he is."

"When I read your palm, I saw his parents convincing him to kill his brother for the insurance money. On their wedding day."

I was quiet.

"Byron killed Kenny like he was instructed, and his parents got away with it. Four years later, Byron killed his parents, inherited the money and got married."

"How could you kill your own flesh and blood brother? I was married to a psycho in Seattle..."

"He's married?"

"Yes! He looks over his wife while she sleeps with a pistol by her side."

The hairs stood on my arms.

"But Byron is dead. He's my husband's...brother."

"Kenny is dead!"

The psychic took off her make up and wig.

My husband stared me in my face, smiling inwardly.

"Happy anniversary. My name is Byron..."

Screams!