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“Honey?”857Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcKDIPtzU0s
“Rachael, I don’t have the bloody time to – ” Adam drops his cutlery and throws up his hands.857Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq4nLJhajfb
“I’m sorry, I’m sorry!” Rachael returns back to her breakfast. With a grunt, Adam returns to his.857Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9KNlk0jgam
The rest of the meal passes in silence.857Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoyoizotfKm
The tall, unshaven man rises from his seat and almost trips on a bottle lying on the floor.857Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSV6MrExNoD
“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.857Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdMq2NyOAd9
Biting her lip: “I try.”857Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzadbRrjcwl
As if satisfied by his outbreak of force, Adam deflates. “Good.”857Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmY6sUSNxc4
There’s a pause. “…Honey?”857Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmLTllTSJgS
“For God’s sake, Rachael, what is it?” Adam turns to face his wife.857Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJFZJ88UVE9
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.857Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRJIvm5RAXI
“What do you think it is?” His reply is throwaway; he barely gives the bag a glance.857Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxC2sBSD1fM
“Doesn’t it bother you?” She’s sweating: she knows that she might be crossing a line.857Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDbw6c8GAOZ
“Why would it?” His tone of voice already changes; suspicious of her intentions.857Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0mebvWkn5j
“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.”857Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEi53oVXuF0
“…And?” Questioning. Provoking. Is this the man she married twenty years ago?857Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF4Xu8wlzmg
“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.857Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3wYR3dh6lQ
For a moment, everything is frozen – but then it happens – the side of his hand coming into contact with her left cheek.857Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAfU56XVMc0
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.857Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzPSI2beCC1
“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.857Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpjpcSUoYAc
Confused, angry, forlorn, ashamed, he curses under his breath. Since when was he like this?857Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7dT1qbnZgg
He tears the packet open and pours the contents onto his hand before inhaling them, hating yet relishing the sting up his nostrils.857Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvqSmpWahBb
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.857Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6Ed0yxSfH6
Dazed, he walks up the street.857Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡik4ZjYz3O8
It hasn’t occurred to him yet that it wasn’t his fault.
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He wakes on something soft. Green. Grass?857Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtIVXfD4PEa
His stomach returns the breakfast it so willingly accepted earlier that day (yesterday, perhaps?), bile burning his throat as the liquid leaves his mouth.857Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEEZMWqX5YE
Rachael. Beautiful Rachael. She was upset about something. She’s always upset.857Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRY45zouYjU
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.857Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmNrChhQ3Cb
He laughs in relief when he sees her, standing all the way at the top of the hill.857Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEmCJaPMwqF
Gone are the creases of worry that lined her face, gone are the tears she often cried.857Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVnzBXcAMts
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?857Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGD3Xo5FOQA
“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.857Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrzOAjOPCMm
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.857Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUjiV8mIfgq
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diende…
~Ad infinitum~857Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXLhzb7nkV0
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