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“Honey?”768Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkIiCTPzCBG
“Rachael, I don’t have the bloody time to – ” Adam drops his cutlery and throws up his hands.768Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAfXtmBvFSr
“I’m sorry, I’m sorry!” Rachael returns back to her breakfast. With a grunt, Adam returns to his.768Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlarVmELJDx
The rest of the meal passes in silence.768Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHBgH3LyjKn
The tall, unshaven man rises from his seat and almost trips on a bottle lying on the floor.768Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLSprMFj9gy
“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.768Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0RacU4nl1X
Biting her lip: “I try.”768Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWdvQdTSAKM
As if satisfied by his outbreak of force, Adam deflates. “Good.”768Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlGtOKxYm5v
There’s a pause. “…Honey?”768Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtuDTmVd39i
“For God’s sake, Rachael, what is it?” Adam turns to face his wife.768Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYktC3U6Gwv
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.768Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp6xzHoqyzH
“What do you think it is?” His reply is throwaway; he barely gives the bag a glance.768Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgFFUi816fR
“Doesn’t it bother you?” She’s sweating: she knows that she might be crossing a line.768Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJOKdVasCmC
“Why would it?” His tone of voice already changes; suspicious of her intentions.768Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGzmUOiRQS8
“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.”768Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNsZ0lymjeG
“…And?” Questioning. Provoking. Is this the man she married twenty years ago?768Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ32y4wKBsS8
“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.768Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSI8snTtBmz
For a moment, everything is frozen – but then it happens – the side of his hand coming into contact with her left cheek.768Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDLDwvc9tKs
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.768Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXbVNMpaMlQ
“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.768Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW4NIceTc9g
Confused, angry, forlorn, ashamed, he curses under his breath. Since when was he like this?768Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5Jx6ttZAdb
He tears the packet open and pours the contents onto his hand before inhaling them, hating yet relishing the sting up his nostrils.768Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZHfQDPSB4d
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.768Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNXaYiWwQOQ
Dazed, he walks up the street.768Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGucDLDv8fz
It hasn’t occurred to him yet that it wasn’t his fault.
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He wakes on something soft. Green. Grass?768Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtDqKKn4XfL
His stomach returns the breakfast it so willingly accepted earlier that day (yesterday, perhaps?), bile burning his throat as the liquid leaves his mouth.768Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm9DsVWjaCX
Rachael. Beautiful Rachael. She was upset about something. She’s always upset.768Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ63BXPpJgFK
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.768Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl0HK9QGutj
He laughs in relief when he sees her, standing all the way at the top of the hill.768Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQGH0KoIFrU
Gone are the creases of worry that lined her face, gone are the tears she often cried.768Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpbYZdFOcNj
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?768Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡELefU3v462
“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.768Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHYLGXnC3pt
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.768Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOYMVmMnix0
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diende…
~Ad infinitum~768Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5yBFe9hxhB
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