Hearing her say that she wanted a place where she could just be Mable and the she fell in love with him, he couldn't fathom how much hurt was inside of her right now, but in the same moment, he was feeling the same hurt. She lied...
"Bottom surgery..." he said as he contemplated what that even meant, not having any idea of the surgeries or the thought of transgender men, women, non-binary... whatever... In this moment, only one thing could hit his mind... "Mable, I don't care if you were Mable or Mark or whatever back then... You lied... even if was for a solid reason, you lied to me. I can't begin to... I don't know... I can't..."
He would stop himself, sighing for a moment and looking down at the ground, "Right now, I don't even know what to say, this has gotten me thinking so many thoughts that right now, I just don't know what to do or say. This is hard... Like, did you not think I would ever find out about Mark?"
He felt betrayed in this moment, and he wasn't going to lash out. Even right now when his mind was telling him to just let her have it, he couldn't. The person in front of him, man, woman, Mark, Mable, he loved, and he had no idea if this would change things for him, "I am fucking heartbroken, Mable. From the fact that the person I fell for was someone else completely. Someone that I never would have gone for... I am not gay, I am not bisexual..."
His words not coming with anger, but with pain, "I am hopelessly in love with you, Mable... And this changes fucking everything."
In that moment, he couldn't speak anymore as he looked around the bedroom that they now occupied. In the moment, he couldn't even look at her, "You... just stay in her tonight. Your stuff is already here. I will be... somewhere..."
In that moment, he would walk out the door, slamming it shut behind him, not even realizing he did it.