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“Honey?”793Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB5p9P5Ha1L
“Rachael, I don’t have the bloody time to – ” Adam drops his cutlery and throws up his hands.793Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsFP2fRRwPG
“I’m sorry, I’m sorry!” Rachael returns back to her breakfast. With a grunt, Adam returns to his.793Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzdeZh9hDmE
The rest of the meal passes in silence.793Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwiak7BpWq8
The tall, unshaven man rises from his seat and almost trips on a bottle lying on the floor.793Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡslmWVFMoLX
“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.793Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy98neHw2Gk
Biting her lip: “I try.”793Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKMQar9dbp7
As if satisfied by his outbreak of force, Adam deflates. “Good.”793Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD8t9oxl5eQ
There’s a pause. “…Honey?”793Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfdNoKJvzMj
“For God’s sake, Rachael, what is it?” Adam turns to face his wife.793Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQnGLJ1eGoZ
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.793Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8PznusyyJF
“What do you think it is?” His reply is throwaway; he barely gives the bag a glance.793Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1ITJtXy2qV
“Doesn’t it bother you?” She’s sweating: she knows that she might be crossing a line.793Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTyX5nqLdoa
“Why would it?” His tone of voice already changes; suspicious of her intentions.793Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQRi6DHHdml
“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.”793Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi558hUz8oZ
“…And?” Questioning. Provoking. Is this the man she married twenty years ago?793Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgdVgCQ9PE9
“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.793Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSXWHlAmRGc
For a moment, everything is frozen – but then it happens – the side of his hand coming into contact with her left cheek.793Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy0Tym8zIag
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.793Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNKk1TSiM3X
“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.793Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMf42xOfeNq
Confused, angry, forlorn, ashamed, he curses under his breath. Since when was he like this?793Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoBBBmnXj7O
He tears the packet open and pours the contents onto his hand before inhaling them, hating yet relishing the sting up his nostrils.793Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0euYj3S69F
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.793Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7BkmIXJNY5
Dazed, he walks up the street.793Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYah7IdLqET
It hasn’t occurred to him yet that it wasn’t his fault.
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He wakes on something soft. Green. Grass?793Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcdZtLRwRZB
His stomach returns the breakfast it so willingly accepted earlier that day (yesterday, perhaps?), bile burning his throat as the liquid leaves his mouth.793Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8P10iquBCl
Rachael. Beautiful Rachael. She was upset about something. She’s always upset.793Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLx5ChQ04YI
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.793Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5U48vLMV9G
He laughs in relief when he sees her, standing all the way at the top of the hill.793Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxFUwIR71Rv
Gone are the creases of worry that lined her face, gone are the tears she often cried.793Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs2NxwC8IMN
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?793Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA7Aup4VETz
“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.793Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9gdBYiFQDS
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.793Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyp8iL9wwDo
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diende…
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