I Love You but You Are in the Way by Robert Martin

I Love You but You Are in the Way, shows life favors no one not even when love's grand.

I Love You But You Are In The Way, an emotional conflict of having an inheritance came with a price for naive Thomas of Texas, having everything he wanted but risked it all heart and soul. Inevitably like a moth to the flame, he got too close to the unpredictable alluring hot fire of Serena, in which she gave him every opportunity to resist it, nevertheless for the first time his eyes opened to something, that life favors no one not even when love's grand.

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Excerpt from I Love You but You Are in the Way © Copyright 2025 Robert Martin

Chapter 1

ALCOHOL AND
THE BEAST

12 am on a starry Fall October night, while spending the night out on the town with his friends. Thomas came back home drunk and indisposed slamming the front door behind him hard & loud..blam! The entire house shook that woke his mother up that was snoring and sound asleep upstairs. Unbeknownst of his father downstairs that was still up with the light on talking on the phone in his study, he staggered right into his dad’s study with him on the phone. John heard the thundering sound of the front door being loudly slammed, he knew right then that something was wrong just by looking at his son standing there in the doorway looking like a crazed wildman… drunk and loud. He reminded him of his own brother which was Thomas’s uncle whom lived majority of his life by being a alcoholic and the town drunk, knowing there’s one in every family…and at that moment, the belligerent and loud Thomas demanded his dad to hang up the phone now!” Demanding more money from him and spoke harshly to him to get it, while holding a half a pint of liquor that he had in his hand too. He demanded his dad to give him more money….acting like a drunken bank robber in the middle of the night by demanding money from his own dad…. so without trying to make matters worse John calmly told his associate caller on the phone he would call him back on tomorrow all because of Thomas, he’d seen his son on another occasion acting the way he was before.

John knew right away and it didn’t take long to see that his son was out of his mind hammered and drunk. With his clothes and pants mostly undone and exposed signified a red flag as well. John told him right away that he had already given him his allowance and asked him “what did you do with all that money i gave you son?

But with slow hesitation, being so out of it and drunk Thomas couldn’t answer his dad quick enough, and immediately John withdrew his question from asking him, saying nevermind just keep it to yourself…i don’t even want to know”…. so Thomas angrily took the liquor bottle that he was holding and threw it at his dad….yelling “dammit where’s the friggin money at dad!” With the flying bottle that just missed hitting his head by inches. Which broke behind him on the wall near his bookshelf.

John calmly knowing of his son drinking problem too. He then slowly pulled out his 44 that was already loaded from underneath his desk and aimed it right at his son heart with the most serious and dangerous look on his face. The silver plated 44 magnum was cocked and ready to do some serious damage to his only son.

Disrespectful Thomas was going off on the deep end to his dad from being so drunk… he outrageously was mouthing off, about how he was hiding and keeping all the money to himself, pushing his dad to do it. Bonnie waking up from all the noise she heard while she was asleep, immediately she looked over to the other side of the bed and not finding her husband there scared her. So she quickly climbed out of bed and went downstairs to find out as to what happened.

Seeing the light that was already on, she slowly walked up to her husband’s study then suddenly finding a very dangerous situation was already at hand. When she overheard shouting from John and Thomas, they both were in some sort of argument about some money.

Bonnie immediately screamed at the both of them to stop…and jumped in between the two screaming…