𝐎𝐏𝐏𝐎𝐒𝐈𝐓𝐄𝐒 - 𝐄𝐃𝐃𝐈𝐄 𝐌𝐔𝐍𝐒𝐎𝐍

𝐔𝐍𝐄𝐗𝐏𝐄𝐂𝐓𝐄𝐃 𝐆𝐔𝐄𝐒𝐓

𝗪𝗔𝗥𝗡𝗜𝗡𝗚: 𝗠𝗔𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘 𝗟𝗔𝗡𝗚𝗨𝗔𝗚𝗘, 𝗔𝗟𝗖𝗢𝗛𝗢𝗟 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗗𝗥𝗨𝗚 𝗨𝗦𝗘, 𝗠𝗘𝗡𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗦 𝗢𝗙 𝗔𝗕𝗨𝗦𝗘.

𝙺𝙸𝙼𝙱𝙴𝚁𝙻𝚈 𝙲𝙰𝚂𝚂𝙸𝙳𝚈

"I'm Al..Eddie's Father."

My eyes blinked rapidly at the words pouring from the man's mouth. This was Eddie's dad?. I'd thought he was in prison.

"No hug for your old man?." Al asked Ed slyly, obviously finding the situation very amusing.

"What are you doing here?." Eddie asked his father with venom laced around the tip of his tongue. Al scrunched his brows at the boy across from him.

"What am I doing here?." He repeated Eddie's question. "I came to see my son on his birthday. I don't remember that being illegal, boy." Al began to patronise Ed, and I opened my mouth to tell him to piss off but Eddie stopped me with his arm out in front of my chest.

"Let's not ruin everybody's night, 'Kay?." Eddie said to his father with a sarcastic smile, turning to leave the room and leaving a kiss on my forehead before walking past me.

Al followed behind Ed as his eyes stayed put on me, something lingering behind his orbs that I couldn't quite make sense off. It almost looked..immoral.

As they parted away from the crowd abiding in the lounge, the music began to fade back into play and the chatter of the audience grew louder.

"Can somebody explain what the fuck just happened?." Steve asked from besides me, my eyes still solely focused on the white wood of Eddie's closed door.

"I thought Eddie's dad was.." Robin gulped. "..dead." She finished slowly. I looked back to my friends and moved past them, over to the couch and slouched down into it with the three of them following behind.

"What do you think they're talking about?." I asked Steve whilst biting the skin around my nails, looking up to the boy who was stood in front of me.

"Catching up..I assume." He shrugged.

"Eddie hates his dad. The last thing they'll be doing is catching up." I mocked Steve's words and sighed, hiding my face in my hands. "How has everything been ruined before it's even started?." I asked myself rather than my friends surrounding me.

"He's a big boy, Kim. You don't need to protect him." Billy tried to make me feel better, but they had no idea of the stories of Al Munson. They didn't know.

"You're a big boy, Billy, yet you still ditch your friends for a few seconds in bed with a whore." I spat at him and stood up, walking through the small crowd of people and out of the front door to the trailer, inhaling the fresh winters air and feeling the light patter of rain falling. I moved under the canopy attached to the trailer and sat in the swaying seat, listening to the sound of faded music behind me.

I feared for Eddie in this very moment, even though I knew he could handle himself. It wasn't about who was the stronger out of the two, it was the fact that Al had traumatised Eddie to his core from how he treated him as a boy, at how he treated Eddie's mother. I knew that my mother was an awful woman, but Maureen Cassidy was nothing compared to Al Munson.

I wanted to run inside and snatch Eddie away from the horrid man, I wanted to shield him from the harm to come for Eddie but I couldn't. I didn't know Al as Ed once had and I was worried that I could've been the reason to make matters worse for my fiancé.