Matthew didn’t know what happened. In the last two hours he seemed to have lost his entire life. He didn’t know how to sort through everything because nothing about it made any bit of sense!

There are people I don’t even know living in my house. Lauren is gone; I don’t even know where she is or if she is even… alive. Screw what happened with Victoria. I’d take it back in a second if I knew what would have resulted from it! Matthew tried to reason everything out.

Tears started to prick behind Matthew’s eyes as he hung his head in fatigue. What happened?

“What happened?” Matthew asked himself, his voice cracking mid-sentence.


Matthew sat down on the couch in his office and tried to think of all the possibilities of what could have happened. But when sleep crept to his eyes, Matthew found himself slowly resting his head on the arm of the couch as he was swept away into dreamland.


~*~TWO WEEKS LATER~*~

Time wasn’t passing by quick enough for Matthew as he simply let the days tick on by. Two weeks ago Matthew had a wife, a booming career and great life. Now he was left with nothing. Absolutely nothing! He was sleeping in his office, people he didn’t even know were living in his home and he had no idea where his wife was.

Two weeks of living in his office was driving Matthew crazy. He decided to take a trip downtown one crisp, fall day. The walk was nice. It would have been nicer if Matthew didn’t hear “what happened-to my life, what happened-to my life, what happened-to my life” with every step of his thick boots on the sidewalk.

Matthew reached his favorite part of the strip and took a long look around. His eyes scaled the exterior of every building on the block. Something was different here too. Everything looked a little bit… older and weathered. As Matthew tried to reason out why the buildings looked different, something caught his eye.