SUNRISE1091Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC5moJQpNNj
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“Honey?”1091Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTv7ai3JwWK
“Rachael, I don’t have the bloody time to – ” Adam drops his cutlery and throws up his hands.1091Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNdxzAqwx7r
“I’m sorry, I’m sorry!” Rachael returns back to her breakfast. With a grunt, Adam returns to his.1091Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkJlGIhuvsE
The rest of the meal passes in silence.1091Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDy5H6m42sO
The tall, unshaven man rises from his seat and almost trips on a bottle lying on the floor.1091Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQE025U7pKI
“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.1091Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaWDskwInVg
Biting her lip: “I try.”1091Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb1lRRaUTrt
As if satisfied by his outbreak of force, Adam deflates. “Good.”1091Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV4gfBtlQCg
There’s a pause. “…Honey?”1091Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoORRbGt4bc
“For God’s sake, Rachael, what is it?” Adam turns to face his wife.1091Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyeNkqpmPYK
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.1091Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3ZUcfaTn8E
“What do you think it is?” His reply is throwaway; he barely gives the bag a glance.1091Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc0GeUaYEQO
“Doesn’t it bother you?” She’s sweating: she knows that she might be crossing a line.1091Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrl3baU0cE1
“Why would it?” His tone of voice already changes; suspicious of her intentions.1091Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD05aiP1cES
“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.”1091Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOxTYlzHeEV
“…And?” Questioning. Provoking. Is this the man she married twenty years ago?1091Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9ZwQsFQkDb
“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.1091Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTXcKtuSdOJ
For a moment, everything is frozen – but then it happens – the side of his hand coming into contact with her left cheek.1091Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnSRsgsscJW
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.1091Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE4KPEa8dWP
“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.1091Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOU3SiRjO7M
Confused, angry, forlorn, ashamed, he curses under his breath. Since when was he like this?1091Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi6D0UsipBC
He tears the packet open and pours the contents onto his hand before inhaling them, hating yet relishing the sting up his nostrils.1091Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF2IQCZ0BvZ
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.1091Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAfMVhrrXAY
Dazed, he walks up the street.1091Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrOnnPNZvAO
It hasn’t occurred to him yet that it wasn’t his fault.
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He wakes on something soft. Green. Grass?1091Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFRfzSIBY8F
His stomach returns the breakfast it so willingly accepted earlier that day (yesterday, perhaps?), bile burning his throat as the liquid leaves his mouth.1091Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmUOR9d0YbM
Rachael. Beautiful Rachael. She was upset about something. She’s always upset.1091Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRr8l9XwPYO
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.1091Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsLQEItRf16
He laughs in relief when he sees her, standing all the way at the top of the hill.1091Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2sz4Cc7tCi
Gone are the creases of worry that lined her face, gone are the tears she often cried.1091Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIu6P7pquCT
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?1091Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQJNFuE1eBA
“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.1091Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQIOj67gDfp
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.1091Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsQsSIEut8l
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diende…
~Ad infinitum~1091Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpb4LFyQ4Dm
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and then Add to home screen.