The Widow

Scene 66 - Cry and let it wash the pain

Scene 66 – Cry and let it wash the pain.

Ralphe woke up alone. At first, he thought, Clara was just at the kitchen making breakfast but when he went there, the kids were there with Kieran trying to climb up the counter and Maddox and Tatum cheering softly to Kieran.

“What are you doing?” picking up Kieran and setting him down back to the floor. “Where’s your mommy?” he asked.

Tatum’s lips quivered, “She’s sick!”

That got his attention, she was sick?

“She’s not sick!” Kieran protested, “She just needs to be alone, okay? We can do this.”

“Wait… what’s happening?” he asked, he didn't know what the hell was happening.

Kieran turned to him, “Mommy misses Daddy.”

As if that was explanation enough.

But then it dawned to him as he was making them breakfast. Clara was at her room probably feeling guilty over what happened last night. Mommy misses Daddy.

Clara was at her room missing Aiden.

And that hurt. She fled his room so she could go back to her room probably to cry and apologize to the dead.

He was angry but anger didn’t deem the hurt, it just intensified it and he didn’t know what to do about it. He didn’t know if he should confront her or leave her alone.

He looked at the kids and sighed, he needed to make them breakfast and then maybe the answer would come.

***

 

It didn’t.

Hours later, he was still at the kitchen, seated at the barstool the television blaring, his phone on top of the marble counter, Cassandra called him earlier and told him they were on their way to Chicago to pick him up so they could all go to California to visit Olivia and Anton.

They were going on a mission, it turned out, there were two sides on this situation, the ones who wanted Olivia to terminate the pregnancy were the men and of course the female friends with the exception of Ingrid and Serena wanted her to keep it.

He needed to go to California with them but how could he go when things were unresolved with Clara?

She still haven’t come out of her room, he asked Kieran to bring her breakfast but Kieran had reported that she didn’t touch the food.

Damn it all. He needed to go talk to her. That was what he needed to do. Not sit here and mope.