Darling 80

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~10 years earlier~

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The wind was howling like a lone wolf and made the windows rock. I pick up my sleeping son Joey and take him up to bed. He wakes up and looks at me with those confused eyes and I knew what he was thinking about. "When will daddy get home?" I sigh and run my fingers through his hair. "Soon. He'll be here by morning." 

The truth is, I don't know when Billie will be back. He said he has 'unfinished bunisness' to deal with. Whatever that means. I sit in bed and open up the book I had been reading, the book being my escape. The only escape I had from this awful world. I'd like to love in a fairytale, Billie and I leave this dirty town and move somewhere amazing and adventurous, I've always been a fan of the countryside, especially England. We'd get married in the forest with our two sons in adorable tuxedos. And Billie would look handsome, as he always does. Shaved, his hair messy which made him unbelievably sexy and a white tuxedo with a red rose to match my short white dress which has a rose on the hip. But that was all of fairytales and dreams. With the perfect man, comes probelms. 

My phone buzzes, I look down and see a message from Mike. 

M- Sorry

I tilt my head and reply with a simple question mark. I go back  to my reading, the sort where he has to choose between life and his few month old child. He had a choice, he dies and his baby lives or the baby dies and he lives, either way leaving the mother heartbroken. And I think it's obvious what he chooses. My phone buzzes again and I was tempted to turn it off until I see what it said. 

M - We couldn't stop him from jumping.