A Kid Kept Kicking My Seat and Throwing Popcorn in My Hair, Then My Husband Finally Did Something About It

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Everyone looked back.

The man adjusted his glasses.

“He’s been bothering our row too.”

Ethan’s father finally looked up.

“Stay out of it.”

“It became my business when soda landed on my wife’s purse.”

The father rolled his eyes.

Then Ethan kicked my chair again.

Hard.

Normally, Owen would have said nothing.

That was who he had trained himself to be.

The man who tolerated.

The man who absorbed discomfort.

The man terrified that speaking firmly would somehow turn him into Frank.

I didn’t expect him to intervene.

I didn’t even want him to if it was going to cost him emotionally.

So I faced the

screen.

There was popcorn in my hair.

My shirt collar was damp.

My back hurt from being kicked.

And I told myself I was not going to cry during Spider-Man.

Then Owen looked at me.

He reached into my curls and removed one more piece of popcorn.

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