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“Honey?”759Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡASLINb5e48
“Rachael, I don’t have the bloody time to – ” Adam drops his cutlery and throws up his hands.759Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgM64VaScXU
“I’m sorry, I’m sorry!” Rachael returns back to her breakfast. With a grunt, Adam returns to his.759Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYzDaiLNFln
The rest of the meal passes in silence.759Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyOREhCD6xD
The tall, unshaven man rises from his seat and almost trips on a bottle lying on the floor.759Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7SqbNbxMOw
“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.759Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJWkqXgnE6p
Biting her lip: “I try.”759Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6jRcFC1I8Z
As if satisfied by his outbreak of force, Adam deflates. “Good.”759Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfC1vVozrqt
There’s a pause. “…Honey?”759Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYZ8DDdoY1E
“For God’s sake, Rachael, what is it?” Adam turns to face his wife.759Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCvdV3XyIju
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.759Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjYyBlHVZ95
“What do you think it is?” His reply is throwaway; he barely gives the bag a glance.759Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzItWABnu39
“Doesn’t it bother you?” She’s sweating: she knows that she might be crossing a line.759Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo91PbX2Iy0
“Why would it?” His tone of voice already changes; suspicious of her intentions.759Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrE3AKEqqhV
“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.”759Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgnZmnjgTsL
“…And?” Questioning. Provoking. Is this the man she married twenty years ago?759Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsAMSLCylku
“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.759Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbAQhAlZLTp
For a moment, everything is frozen – but then it happens – the side of his hand coming into contact with her left cheek.759Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcA5GKZDooO
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.759Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUTGl92Pv1O
“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.759Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFuIdxNGWHI
Confused, angry, forlorn, ashamed, he curses under his breath. Since when was he like this?759Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA6IF9Jhgcs
He tears the packet open and pours the contents onto his hand before inhaling them, hating yet relishing the sting up his nostrils.759Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWGD3PvcMAc
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.759Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbmm2l0rjyX
Dazed, he walks up the street.759Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3Bu42y0gYm
It hasn’t occurred to him yet that it wasn’t his fault.
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He wakes on something soft. Green. Grass?759Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaxV0tzXrDO
His stomach returns the breakfast it so willingly accepted earlier that day (yesterday, perhaps?), bile burning his throat as the liquid leaves his mouth.759Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlNADRAKMUm
Rachael. Beautiful Rachael. She was upset about something. She’s always upset.759Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCw4sYhVJCp
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.759Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4G8tWFBUCL
He laughs in relief when he sees her, standing all the way at the top of the hill.759Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbIOGiII2g3
Gone are the creases of worry that lined her face, gone are the tears she often cried.759Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn9Gczn4gly
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?759Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW9GqjSe7So
“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.759Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBxuggnoPOk
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.759Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdf5RhN9zzV
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diende…
~Ad infinitum~759Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF1Hrz5FiCG
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