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“Honey?”855Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLVfuxxZVpM
“Rachael, I don’t have the bloody time to – ” Adam drops his cutlery and throws up his hands.855Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmeXOxu15C8
“I’m sorry, I’m sorry!” Rachael returns back to her breakfast. With a grunt, Adam returns to his.855Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqBtKeuez8p
The rest of the meal passes in silence.855Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqF4RdYL2G3
The tall, unshaven man rises from his seat and almost trips on a bottle lying on the floor.855Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcEpen1HZFZ
“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.855Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsGAfG5KG3w
Biting her lip: “I try.”855Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrivw5twN1v
As if satisfied by his outbreak of force, Adam deflates. “Good.”855Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUvVXU3BKuZ
There’s a pause. “…Honey?”855Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfdsASbD1QO
“For God’s sake, Rachael, what is it?” Adam turns to face his wife.855Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhaeQy8UHMV
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.855Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7FdYLVJ9SN
“What do you think it is?” His reply is throwaway; he barely gives the bag a glance.855Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpjERweL6Zn
“Doesn’t it bother you?” She’s sweating: she knows that she might be crossing a line.855Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4AmXR86SnM
“Why would it?” His tone of voice already changes; suspicious of her intentions.855Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvrJ4n3Jn45
“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.”855Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkDQCOJdem3
“…And?” Questioning. Provoking. Is this the man she married twenty years ago?855Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRHGgeslWFP
“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.855Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKdztExCWXp
For a moment, everything is frozen – but then it happens – the side of his hand coming into contact with her left cheek.855Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC1uUPV7aGm
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.855Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXz2YwPFLGV
“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.855Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5vd2CNsSO7
Confused, angry, forlorn, ashamed, he curses under his breath. Since when was he like this?855Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCAC7kQgZpv
He tears the packet open and pours the contents onto his hand before inhaling them, hating yet relishing the sting up his nostrils.855Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc8D1mlnIRe
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.855Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbXF1Ez3MTp
Dazed, he walks up the street.855Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ08Y3HRc397
It hasn’t occurred to him yet that it wasn’t his fault.
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He wakes on something soft. Green. Grass?855Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1GAZFYKlLc
His stomach returns the breakfast it so willingly accepted earlier that day (yesterday, perhaps?), bile burning his throat as the liquid leaves his mouth.855Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe5RdngvshI
Rachael. Beautiful Rachael. She was upset about something. She’s always upset.855Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVoPcYlz6Aj
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.855Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD90cFQ7YNE
He laughs in relief when he sees her, standing all the way at the top of the hill.855Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr91nkd0VVX
Gone are the creases of worry that lined her face, gone are the tears she often cried.855Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSqnzvUrZfo
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?855Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLKj4IzkKWh
“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.855Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ25uZ37N1OK
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.855Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmcVv1pEDxX
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diende…
~Ad infinitum~855Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7aME6cMRUI
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