Loving The Sky

Chapter 56

"Country roads..." Ardeth sang as he walked inside the garage, twirling the keys.

"There you go home, Keys." Ardeth said as he hanged the keys on the key holder.

As he turned around to walk out, he noticed the lights turned on in Daniel's room.

"Seems like Jamie forgot to turn off the lights." Ardeth mumbled as he walked inside the room.

"Dan?" Ardeth called as he found Daniel sitting in the corner of the room, with bottles of wine scattered around him.

"Dan? Are you alright?" Ardeth asked rushing towards Daniel, who no longer looked like the confident, and strong man he saw a few hours ago, he looked like a broken man, his messy hair indicated that he ran his hands through it several times, the broken pieces of wine glass was pierced into his palms, but he didn't seem to have noticed it.

"Ardeth..." Daniel slurred in his inebriated state.

"What happened Dan? Oh god, your palms are bleeding." Ardeth said as he checked his palms, that are dripping blood.

"They don't hurt me." Dan said as he took a swig of wine from the bottle, "Atleast not as hard as my heart." He said patting his chest.

"Dan, stop drinking, you are already wasted." Ardeth said trying to pull away the bottle.

"Noo..." Dan shook his head, "Let me drown in this intoxication, before my regrets and wrong doings drown me into the depression."

"At least let me clean your cuts." Ardeth requested looking at the stubborn man infront of him.

Getting no answer from him, he quickly grabbed the first aid kit and began to remove the glass pieces from his palms.

"Why are you drinking so much? Didn't you go home?" Ardeth asked.

"Home." Dan laughed humorlessly, "It is no longer a home, I destroyed my happy  home with my own hands. It's just a house now." He said and began to look into the vacuum without emotion.

"Okay, I will drop you at home now." Ardeth said after he finished the first aid.

"No, I don't want to go home, I can't see her cry, it hurts."

"See who?" Ardeth asked confused.

"Tressa..." Dan smiled, as serene smile, "The love of my life, my beloved wife..." He slurred.

"Why does she cry?"

"I hurt her." Dan hiccuped, "I hurt her, I hurt her and my baby." He cried.

"Okay Dan, you need to go home now." Ardeth said trying to make Dan stand.

"You know why I agreed to help you?" Dan asked as he slumped on the sofa.

"Why?" Ardeth sighed  giving up, as he wasn't able to lift Dan up.

"You reminded me of myself." Dan smiled closing his eyes, "You and Sherlyn, you both reminded me, of me and Tressa, we were high school sweet hearts, she supported me in my Soccer career just like how Sherlyn supports you, we were a happy family but I ruined everything."

Ardeth sat silent listening to Dan.

"She loved me to moon and back, she never asked anything in return, she was selfless, and understanding. We had a happy married life, we were over the cloud, when we got to know we were going to be parents. For the first time ever, Tressa asked me for one thing, to stay by her side as she had her due date near."

"I was so blinded by greed and game, that I left her side to participate in the tournament to win the game, even though I had a chance to stay back home on her side. She went into labour that night, and I wasn't on her side, things got complicated, and she gave birth to a stillborn baby. I won the tournament but I lost my baby boy." Dan cried.