Lies, Lies, Lies

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Gaga couldn't believe what she was hearing, -'You plan on giving her the money?!', Liz looked at Gaga with a pout, -'I just...that's the price of my absence. Come on. I need it for my hospital bills and-', Gaga almost cracked her neck looking towards the girl, -'Girlfriend, don't talk to me' she said with a condescending tone.
-'Listen, babe, I figured that just giving her the money would be the best...', -'What does she need it for?', Gaga asked to see a report of all the prices. She frowned. -'What damn hospital are you going? A royalty hospital? These prices are kinda...blown up', Liz shrugged, -'I'm not having a lot of help from the label and I'm due soon so-', Gaga handed Alice the paper, she then stared at Mark, -'Honey. This is some bullshit' she then got up and pushed the chair back into the table harshly.
Mark sighed deeply, -'This is not good', -'Mark, I-', Mark took out his wallet and started writing a check.
He signed the small piece of paper. -'Here. Shove it up your ass, eat it, burn it, I don't care, just LEAVE. MY FAMILY. ALONE once in for all!', Liz grabbed the check. 200K. Perfect. She nodded and tried to grab his hand, -'DONT TOUCH ME AND GET OUT'.
Mark ran up the stairs and heard his wife sobbing in the masterbedroom.
She was holding a family portrait they took not long ago, -'Can we be a family again, please?' Thick tears fell onto the glass of the frame, -'I- Stef...', -'Mark just...is she gone?', -'Yes, she is...come here', Gaga sighed deeply and pushed him away gently, -'I can't right now...I can't believe you let her in our lives again', Mark tried to grab her again and she just slipped off his grasp and went downstairs.
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-'Baby I'm gonna go grab the kids and...take them to have some dinner, you wanna come?', he saw his wife wrapped in a thick woolen blanket on a beach chair, she had a glass of whiskey half empty beside her, she shook her head and continued looking at the iPad. Mark sighed and made his way out.
Gaga took her cigarettes out and started smoking, -'Told myself I'd stop. Today is not that day' she sighed while grabbing a nearby ashtray.

Mark came into the living room an hour later, Noa was in his arms playing with her doll and Gi was holding his violin case happily, -'Go take a bath,Gi, it's almost bedtime! And tomorrow's your birthday!', Gianluca nodded and bolted upstairs to his bedroom.
Gaga was still outside, it was freezing but she didn't cared, -'Stef?', Mark put his daughter down and gave her a cookie, -'Here baby, I'll be back soon'.
He found Gaga cuddling a bottle of Jameson, she stank of alcohol and cigarette smoke, -'I'm gonna sleep out here, just leave', Mark frowned, -'You'll catch pneumonia or something!', -'That's fine by me', Mark sighed deeply and held his wife up. She didn't even protested.
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After a cold shower, Gaga stumbled into her soft bed, -'Don't fucking touch me tonight' she warned Mark, who retreated shamefully, -'Not tonight, not tomorrow, not the day after that. You fucking hear me?'.