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“Honey?”839Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg5mBnR1gw2
“Rachael, I don’t have the bloody time to – ” Adam drops his cutlery and throws up his hands.839Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoCR2mXGVv2
“I’m sorry, I’m sorry!” Rachael returns back to her breakfast. With a grunt, Adam returns to his.839Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgrhRlok09V
The rest of the meal passes in silence.839Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsOsWZPfrNh
The tall, unshaven man rises from his seat and almost trips on a bottle lying on the floor.839Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfTfK020qR4
“Idiot!” He yells. “Don’t you ever clean this rotten house up?” He kicks at it forcefully and it smashes against the wall, tiny green crystals cascading onto the ground.839Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkN9QOsFj1w
Biting her lip: “I try.”839Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5chfnP5uvS
As if satisfied by his outbreak of force, Adam deflates. “Good.”839Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3HB4vQ2Nul
There’s a pause. “…Honey?”839Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTAp7Wa1Ajt
“For God’s sake, Rachael, what is it?” Adam turns to face his wife.839Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsM0KUEPDJT
Tentatively, she takes a small packet of white powder out from under the table. “…I found this in your pockets after you passed out last night. Adam, what is this?” Her eyes are wide, worried and pleading.839Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlCISXKtsZf
“What do you think it is?” His reply is throwaway; he barely gives the bag a glance.839Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvwCTMPrPLB
“Doesn’t it bother you?” She’s sweating: she knows that she might be crossing a line.839Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSbaXxrBI65
“Why would it?” His tone of voice already changes; suspicious of her intentions.839Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAKEiseaS9V
“I mean, for him.” She gestures vaguely to the bedroom at the back of the apartment where their son is still sleeping. “I don’t think all of this is good for him… He scratches himself.”839Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOaYmOnhweW
“…And?” Questioning. Provoking. Is this the man she married twenty years ago?839Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCwbUBlS0DB
“I think you shouldn’t drink so much. Or take…” She throws the packet onto the floor. “It’s not good. For you. Or for him.” She gasps, then holds her breath, waiting for the explosion.839Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4ut6ErdPsi
For a moment, everything is frozen – but then it happens – the side of his hand coming into contact with her left cheek.839Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9muz1ebY2X
Her cry of pain isn’t registered in Adam’s mind. He’s staring at his hand as if it is somehow dirty, and with a growing feeling of shame he stumbles out of the apartment, but not before grabbing the abandoned bag on the floor.839Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIKqb2W1HvA
“S***, I’m sorry, Rachael.” But the words are said long after his leaving, leaving his mouth only when he is sitting on the curb of the path outside.839Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCU3MWAP2Rs
Confused, angry, forlorn, ashamed, he curses under his breath. Since when was he like this?839Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqcwTIOheFd
He tears the packet open and pours the contents onto his hand before inhaling them, hating yet relishing the sting up his nostrils.839Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp3jivJzQUH
He just wants to forget. In his younger and more vulnerable years his father beat him: and every day he asks himself what he did wrong.839Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJD91kcxjzV
Dazed, he walks up the street.839Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKefir4DiEQ
It hasn’t occurred to him yet that it wasn’t his fault.
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He wakes on something soft. Green. Grass?839Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAnuzp5Uqis
His stomach returns the breakfast it so willingly accepted earlier that day (yesterday, perhaps?), bile burning his throat as the liquid leaves his mouth.839Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwhErAo9oPO
Rachael. Beautiful Rachael. She was upset about something. She’s always upset.839Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvilYFt7EHN
He gets up onto his knees. “Rachael!” He yells. Where is she? He wants to say something to her. Something he hasn’t said to her for a long time.839Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEi9pp4kRCo
He laughs in relief when he sees her, standing all the way at the top of the hill.839Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQR64OgJ6EQ
Gone are the creases of worry that lined her face, gone are the tears she often cried.839Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9Vf3YUC13g
And, can he see – or is it just his imagination? – just like the first strands of sunlight dancing over the tops of distant mountains, the faintest of smiles lifting the corners of her lips?839Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsgRr96HP8o
“Rachael!” He runs up towards her with all of his dissipating strength, not stopping, not even when his legs protest in pain, he’s rushing towards her open arms, the clouds in the blue sky singing a symphony of joy – he falls into her embrace, feeling her warmth, her happiness, surround him entirely.839Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCgZU3Y0ndO
He whispers into her ear what he never had the courage to say; just a few words, but he can tell how much they mean to her, and finally – finally! – as the sun rises on Icarus Point, her growing smile lights up those final moments, with her laugh outplaying the birds spiraling into the heavens, he knows that she forgives him.839Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUY7DRIc5eG
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diende…
~Ad infinitum~839Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaynujWIc8l
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