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“Honey?”862Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAPdZRymddZ
“Rachael, I don’t have the bloody time to – ” Adam drops his cutlery and throws up his hands.862Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ8ylDMO8d4
“I’m sorry, I’m sorry!” Rachael returns back to her breakfast. With a grunt, Adam returns to his.862Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjzUpg08Qys
The rest of the meal passes in silence.862Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtsZDTwFs93
The tall, unshaven man rises from his seat and almost trips on a bottle lying on the floor.862Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSW9x6ZK8x5
“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.862Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTELLLrSv4L
Biting her lip: “I try.”862Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg4kKblVz7Y
As if satisfied by his outbreak of force, Adam deflates. “Good.”862Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsO05ZL7bkX
There’s a pause. “…Honey?”862Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJViJTrMML6
“For God’s sake, Rachael, what is it?” Adam turns to face his wife.862Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpGFLHMNe4l
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.862Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa2sd754SYt
“What do you think it is?” His reply is throwaway; he barely gives the bag a glance.862Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8AavCGsvb1
“Doesn’t it bother you?” She’s sweating: she knows that she might be crossing a line.862Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5vzkKSqVuM
“Why would it?” His tone of voice already changes; suspicious of her intentions.862Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQzeqyG19O6
“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.”862Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5kYo1ar5Tb
“…And?” Questioning. Provoking. Is this the man she married twenty years ago?862Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6JtU0nT9Xc
“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.862Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0kZtw3ve7Y
For a moment, everything is frozen – but then it happens – the side of his hand coming into contact with her left cheek.862Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7EGvLkErG3
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.862Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6067Upd9rH
“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.862Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbnGNeAUUcS
Confused, angry, forlorn, ashamed, he curses under his breath. Since when was he like this?862Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOX7CNzZvgo
He tears the packet open and pours the contents onto his hand before inhaling them, hating yet relishing the sting up his nostrils.862Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvsBQoHb6iw
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.862Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKqxIcTLf8t
Dazed, he walks up the street.862Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWZAX0jiQ8D
It hasn’t occurred to him yet that it wasn’t his fault.
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He wakes on something soft. Green. Grass?862Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTEFZqdGmhN
His stomach returns the breakfast it so willingly accepted earlier that day (yesterday, perhaps?), bile burning his throat as the liquid leaves his mouth.862Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTs923HBMvd
Rachael. Beautiful Rachael. She was upset about something. She’s always upset.862Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNfn5ZBcoZ8
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.862Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkI5doe6z0o
He laughs in relief when he sees her, standing all the way at the top of the hill.862Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXFSbQrRRlg
Gone are the creases of worry that lined her face, gone are the tears she often cried.862Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjl51K96HeO
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?862Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVZ3w7shRqG
“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.862Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcbR5bMYhcm
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.862Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwbRA1odgJr
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diende…
~Ad infinitum~862Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPYKlrDwNpK
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