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“Honey?”1058Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7ZnBmYSk6f
“Rachael, I don’t have the bloody time to – ” Adam drops his cutlery and throws up his hands.1058Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLGCR4Xkafy
“I’m sorry, I’m sorry!” Rachael returns back to her breakfast. With a grunt, Adam returns to his.1058Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoviXIOCpAN
The rest of the meal passes in silence.1058Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIeoFlctxD9
The tall, unshaven man rises from his seat and almost trips on a bottle lying on the floor.1058Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB2RSCeLOkd
“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.1058Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYMq9F8zjLy
Biting her lip: “I try.”1058Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuRFd372cXm
As if satisfied by his outbreak of force, Adam deflates. “Good.”1058Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2GOtwYj0mf
There’s a pause. “…Honey?”1058Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhHgRSsJ6FN
“For God’s sake, Rachael, what is it?” Adam turns to face his wife.1058Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡObCkuGId6F
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.1058Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPCkxt3gtzi
“What do you think it is?” His reply is throwaway; he barely gives the bag a glance.1058Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡikeWqw5iuL
“Doesn’t it bother you?” She’s sweating: she knows that she might be crossing a line.1058Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc8pJHM4faG
“Why would it?” His tone of voice already changes; suspicious of her intentions.1058Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOMXqcNAVsA
“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.”1058Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMColzdy5w4
“…And?” Questioning. Provoking. Is this the man she married twenty years ago?1058Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxl5U8iFqtB
“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.1058Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡniGcG579s2
For a moment, everything is frozen – but then it happens – the side of his hand coming into contact with her left cheek.1058Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAkPcx7TJU2
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.1058Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd7JBFqfggo
“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.1058Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsVujQ0EkUS
Confused, angry, forlorn, ashamed, he curses under his breath. Since when was he like this?1058Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvuPOM0ef9N
He tears the packet open and pours the contents onto his hand before inhaling them, hating yet relishing the sting up his nostrils.1058Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0O58sM7G1O
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.1058Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmxYGO5gFoX
Dazed, he walks up the street.1058Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtjqknxzsef
It hasn’t occurred to him yet that it wasn’t his fault.
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He wakes on something soft. Green. Grass?1058Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3FdsiT2ZU7
His stomach returns the breakfast it so willingly accepted earlier that day (yesterday, perhaps?), bile burning his throat as the liquid leaves his mouth.1058Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIcTvOvknRp
Rachael. Beautiful Rachael. She was upset about something. She’s always upset.1058Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTOgozGDYd1
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.1058Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDabHzU9Qpd
He laughs in relief when he sees her, standing all the way at the top of the hill.1058Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMBg47JrMEA
Gone are the creases of worry that lined her face, gone are the tears she often cried.1058Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrXkAONAGvA
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?1058Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXNBl8BfyCP
“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.1058Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡljIvVdXwo6
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.1058Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK81CskIXbV
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diende…
~Ad infinitum~1058Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMRS3uSv2a2
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and then Add to home screen.