❝𝐈'𝐦 𝐢𝐧 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞, 𝐝𝐨𝐧'𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐢𝐭'𝐬 𝐠𝐨𝐧𝐧𝐚 𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐭?❞
[𝐁𝐎𝐎𝐊 𝐓𝐖𝐎 𝐎𝐅 "𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐒 𝐁𝐎𝐘"] Having been married to John for five years now, Alissa spends most of her time caring for their...
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⊹ 𝟷𝟶-𝟷𝟻-𝟷𝟿𝟼𝟽 ⊹
Every time I visited Liverpool, I felt a number of emotions. Everything felt so familiar, yet so starkly different at the same time. Julian pranced around Penny Lane's millennium green. Every now and then, he'd drop to his knees and examine something in the grass, but then he'd stand back up and run off again. He was smiling and seeing that was already the highlight of my week, and it caused me to offer up a smile of my own before I returned to the project on my lap.
He was wearing a pair of khaki pants underneath a black, long-sleeved shirt. Over that, he had a sweater that was all different colors. A breeze blew through the air, and the ground was still wet because it had rained relentlessly yesterday. The sky was a dark blue color, and it almost looked like that rain was about to start again and ruin Julian's fun. I had a sketchbook opened on my lap, and when I wasn't staring at Julian, I was drawing him. I had a rough outline of the little boy hunched over, searching the grass.
"Mummy, look!" My head jerked up and I saw Julian standing next to me, holding something in his hand.
"What is it?" I asked him, leaning forward to see what was in his hands.
"I found a worm!" he said, moving one of his hands to reveal the creature in between his fingers. I moved my head back in surprise.
"Oh, Jules," I said with a sigh. "What did I tell you about picking up those worms?"
Julian's face turned red. "That it would separate them from their mummies," he responded.
"And why d'ya want to separate them from their mummies?" I asked.
"I don't want to," he responded.
"Then, why did you? Go put that back and we can go have dinner with Aunt Mimi." I gulped at the very thought of facing John's aunt right now, but I had promised John that I'd bring Julian by to see her when I saw him just the other day. She didn't know what had happened with us as far as I knew, and I definitely didn't want to be the one to break the news, but I didn't have a choice. I was terrified to find out how she would react...to put it mildly.
Julian ran off to return the worm to where he had found it and I gathered my things, storing my sketchbook in my backpack along with my pencils. Just as I stood up, rain began to fall from the sky. "C'mon, Jules!" I called. "We need to get going before it starts raining harder.
Julian ran over to me, laughing as he passed me and made a beeline for the parking lot. I hurried after him, unlocking the car doors as soon as I made it over there.
