Home.
I can’t feel anything but anger he ruined everything. He even has the audacity to call me over forty times. My fists bunch against the bed sheets in anger as the phone continues to ring again and again and again. It goes on ringing for over an hour before stopping completely, even though it’s stopped I can’t sleep. Everything from the evening running around inside my head. To top it off the phone’s ringing again. The sleeping man beside me stirs;
“Turn the phone off...” he mumbles grumpily leaning over me to switch off the phone but instead it’s hurtled across the room followed by a grunt.
Well that solves the matter of the phone.
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“Evie! Wake up!”
No, leave me alone
“Evie! That phone is ringing again! It’s Mark this time, answer it!”
My eyes ping open...Mark told me he’d not see me again to protect me..my sanity and keep my anger at bay. My gut instinct’s telling me something’s wrong...I need to answer the phone.
“Hello...” I groggily pick up the phone to Mark’s frantic tone rambling something I can’t quite understand.
“Mark! Just slow down...what about him...wait...what.”
I can feel the panic spread through my body like a disease, the phone plummets to the floor and my priority’s are abandoned but one... My frantic running to get dressed alerts Matt who comes running in..
“What’s wrong! Evie? You’re being weird what’s wrong?!”
“Glen’s in hospital that’s all I know. He might be drunk coward and all round horrible person right now but he’s ill... and it’s bad. So what kind of person would I be if I didn’t go?”
He stands there in front of me, silent and staring his eyes are blank.
“Evie. Is this what I think it is?”
“No! Matt of course it’s not, I love you! Who would abandon someone that had such an effect on their life? Would you?” I sigh, standing my ground..
“No. But it seems to me how fast you jumped out of that bed, the look on your face when Mark called...you still love him don’t you?”
“Matt...please..” I sniff stepping forward taking both his hands in mine
“I love you. I want to marry you so no I don’t still love him, after what he said I can’t love him. You don’t know what he said to me...” tears well up in my eyes as I drift back to what he said.
“I’ll be home when I find out what’s up. Mark and Danny are leaving tomorrow...I’ll say goodbye too. Wait for me?..” I smile. He returns the smile and leans down to kiss me...
“I love you Matt...I promise!”
“Hurry back..”
And I’m gone, driving to the hospital, my heart beating a thousand beats a minute. What could be wrong...
Worst case scenario he could be dead, slumped dead in a gutter bottle in hand. I don’t want to think about that no thank you.
The drive drags on...every single frightening and horrible situation that might have occurred playing in my mind over and over again. But why? That’s a good question...why bother with someone that can’t and won’t help themselves. I don’t have a proper answer except you don’t give up on someone that you care about...even if it’s just a tiny bit.
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Romance"Your addiction was that...mine was you...funny how things change isn't it?" A year after Fire and Rain he's broken on the edge of oblivion and drowning in drink. She's happy, successful and living a life she's always dreamed of. Will they find t...
