‘Portis’s POV’
Whilst I sat in my usual seat right across from my wife as I watched her do her show. She was explaining how a dog we gave to a loving family was taken away from them. We were both very upset that this had happened but as Ellen was explaining this to the audience she broke down in tears. It was breaking my heart watching her cry in front of everyone, but there was nothing I could do to console her while she was filming. I continued to watch her explaining the story as she was breaking down. I felt my own tears roll down my cheek as I watched her. I wiped my cheeks as I wished that they would cut to a break already. I couldn’t handle watching her cry any longer. I needed to comfort her, I needed to wipe her tears away and tell her everything would be okay. That’s when Ellen cut to a commercial break. I watched as she quickly stood once she said she needed a break and she walked quickly backstage. I also quickly stood as I followed her, jogging to catch up to her. Once I had got backstage she was crying once again. “Oh Ellen” I say sadly as I wrap my arms tightly around her. I close my eyes as I rub her back soothingly consoling her. I fell her grip on me tighten. “It will be okay baby” I whisper as I feel the presence of Mary and a few others surround us making sure Ellen was okay. I open my eyes and smile weakly at them. I pull her closer and run my hand through the back of Ellen’s hair. Ellen shifts her head from sitting on my shoulder to nuzzling her face into my neck. I feel her warm wet tears run from her face down my neck and her uneven breathe on my neck. “It will be okay baby” I repeat as I try to reassure her. I feel her to calm down a little so I pull back slightly to cup her face and lift it from my neck so I can look at her.
Whilst I sat in my usual seat right across from my wife as I watched her do her show. She was explaining how a dog we gave to a loving family was taken away from them. We were both very upset that this had happened but as Ellen was explaining this to the audience she broke down in tears. It was breaking my heart watching her cry in front of everyone, but there was nothing I could do to console her while she was filming. I continued to watch her explaining the story as she was breaking down. I felt my own tears roll down my cheek as I watched her. I wiped my cheeks as I wished that they would cut to a break already. I couldn’t handle watching her cry any longer. I needed to comfort her, I needed to wipe her tears away and tell her everything would be okay. That’s when Ellen cut to a commercial break. I watched as she quickly stood once she said she needed a break and she walked quickly backstage. I also quickly stood as I followed her, jogging to catch up to her. Once I had got backstage she was crying once again. “Oh Ellen” I say sadly as I wrap my arms tightly around her. I close my eyes as I rub her back soothingly consoling her. I fell her grip on me tighten. “It will be okay baby” I whisper as I feel the presence of Mary and a few others surround us making sure Ellen was okay. I open my eyes and smile weakly at them. I pull her closer and run my hand through the back of Ellen’s hair. Ellen shifts her head from sitting on my shoulder to nuzzling her face into my neck. I feel her warm wet tears run from her face down my neck and her uneven breathe on my neck. “It will be okay baby” I repeat as I try to reassure her. I feel her to calm down a little so I pull back slightly to cup her face and lift it from my neck so I can look at her.
My eyes meet her tear filled eyes which she closes as the tear escape down her cheeks. I quickly wipe them away with my thumb. I hate seeing her like this, blaming herself for this situation. She immediately nuzzles her face back into my neck and I wrap my arms around her once again until she pulls away this time. I hold her close to me before I move my hands and cup her face and wipe the remaining tears away. Our eyes meet each other’s again. “Everything’s going to be okay El, it will all work out, and we will get the dog back to them. I promise” I say quietly as I hold her face in front of mine. I see her eyes are filled with sadness. She blames herself for everything when she wasn’t to know this would happen. She was trying to do the right thing but it just didn’t work out. “It’s not your fault, please don’t blame yourself. I should have half of the blame” I say and she smiles weakly at me “You didn’t do anything wrong, I did so it’s all on me” She says and I shake my head. “What’s done is done there’s no point putting the blame on anyone okay, we will get the dog back to them” I say and she nods. “Don’t worry about it at the moment, put a smile on that face of yours and go out there and do the show, we will worry about this later okay” I say as I smile at her. She smiles lightly so I move my face closer to hers as our noses meet as we look at each other one more time before our lips meet. I kiss her tenderly. I pull away “I love you” I whisper against her lips. “I love you too” She says.
We pull away as we turn to Mary. “You okay?” She asks concerned “Yeah I am now” Ellen smiles lightly. We all walk back out to the stage and I keep my arm wrapped her waist. “Smile baby” I smile at her as she sits down in her chair as I begin to walk down to my seat, but I feel Ellen’s hand grab mine and I turn back around and she pulls me lightly to her where she kisses me on the lips. “Thank you” She smiles as I smile as I walk back to my seat. I could feel myself blushing as I knew the audience would have obviously seen Ellen kiss me. I sit on the stool as I begin to watch Ellen again as her mic gets hooked up on her before the show starts again. I smile whenever Ellen looks my way, hoping it may just cheer her up a little.
Thankfully the show goes fast today and is now ending. Ellen thanks the audience and apologises for getting upset at the start of the show. She looks over to me and I take that as my cue to go over to her, so I do. She thanks them one last time before we both wave goodbye and head backstage and head to her dressing room. I have my arm around her back rubbing her back gently as we walk. “You did good baby” I say quietly as I look at her and she smiles lightly at me. I know she's still upset. We make our way into her dressing room and she plonks down on the couch sighing and I settle down next her. I wrap my arm around her shoulders kissing her cheek. I rest my head on the back on the couch like her and hold her hand with my free hand while we sit there in silence. Theres a knock at the door causing us to both look up. Andy’s head emerged from behind the door and he looked between the both of us before focussing on Ellen. “You alright El?” He queried “Yeah, I might head home now. Is that alright?” Ellen asked as she stood up out of my embrace. “Yeah, that’s fine” He smiled “Sorry about today, I’ll be fine tomorrow” Ellen said as she walked towards him. “No, don’t be sorry. I hope everything works out” Andy says as he hugs her. Ellen pulled back from Andy as she went to grab her stuff, and I stood up as Andy came over to me and hugged me and made sure I was okay too before heading out of the dressing room. We walked to the car hand in hand. Ellen walked around to the passengers side and opened my door for me. I thanked her as I was about to hop in the car before she stopped me with her hand on my hip. “I love you” She said sadly as she looked at me. I could see the sadness in her eyes and it broke my heart. All I wanted to do was take that sadness away. I wanted those vibrant ocean blue eyes back. I cupped her face with both of my hands and pulled her closer to my face. “I love you more than anything” I whisper before kissing her lips softly. I break the kiss but linger close to her. “We’ll make sure this dog gets back to them, I promise” I say and she smiles pecking my lips before I sit down in the car and she shuts my door before walking around to her side where she hops in and drives us home.
THE END