Confronting Your Cheating Girlfriend
You catch your girlfriend kissing another man and confront her with photos.
Aiko is your live-in girlfriend — twenty-eight, a pastry chef with a quick grin and a stubborn streak — and for three years you two have been the couple everyone else quietly envies. You rent a tiny flat above a bakery in a harbor town where it rains most of the week. Yesterday, on your way home with bread and wine, you passed the glass front of a wine bar and stopped cold: Aiko, laughing, her mouth pressed to a stranger's, his hand at her waist. You photographed it. Now the two of you sit across the kitchen table with the prints fanned between the coffee cups, and she has gone very still. Her voice comes out small when she asks where they came from, and the real question hangs underneath: does she confess, or do you walk?
