Secret Miracle

Four

Ben sat on a white upturned boat with his head hanging down towards the beachy sand as Justin and Leah walked leisurely on the sandy beach as the sea and its crashing waves curling into the sand washing away a few grains each time.

"Hey mate, you alright, Leah and I are gonna go for coffee soon, if you wanna come along you're more than welcome." Justin enquired as he noticed that his friend was troubled.

"Do you want me to call Maggie?" Leah asked patiently trying to help her local friend.

"I just want to be left alone," Ben spoke.

...

"This is getting us nowhere!" Maggie confessed.

"I just want the truth." Ziggy snapped as she gestured with her hands stabbing her fingers into her other hand's palm.

"I am telling you Marco is not your father!" Maggie expressed trying to get her daughter to stop question her over her parentage. 

"Saying it over and over doesn't make it true. How can you be sure?" Ziggy warned as she waited for her mother's response.

"Because I just know, okay?" Her mother responded almost certain about her statement she stated to her daughter.

"I have to rely on what, mother's intuition?" Ziggy sarcastically asked her lying mother.

"You have to trust me on this, Ziggy," Maggie begged for Ziggy to stop questioning her over her father.

"You have been lying to dad for over twenty years about this. How can I know that you haven't been lying to me too." Ziggy seethed at her mother as she had picked up her phone as she was trying to see if she had missed any calls or texts from her runaway husband.

"We should be out looking for your father," Maggie said as she tried to change the subject they were talking about.

"A little bit late to start worrying about him now" Ziggy stated as her mother looked at her with sorrow as she placed her phone back on the table.

"Don't you think I feel bad enough already" Maggie snapped at her daughter as her facial expression changed from being concerned for her daughter the questions she was asking and the way that her daughter was trying to falsely accuse her of lying to her for her entire life.

"I don't really care how you feel." She finished.

"No you're just hell-bent on making a bad situation worst," Maggie said nearly sobbing.

"Okay mum, you're the math teacher, you do the sum" Ziggy deduced.

"I don't need too because Marco is not your father." Maggie tirelessly said to her daughter.

"You slept with Marco, around the same town that I was conceived. How can I be sure of anything?" She questioned.

"I'm gonna go out and look for your father. You can either come with me or you can stay out of my way." Maggie ordered to her daughter accusing her of lying to her for her entire house as she left the house.

...

A few days passed before the pair to talk together again, and Ben wasn't up for talking anymore, he had moved his belongs into her youngest daughter's room, Maggie had slept with Marco when she was 19, and Ziggy was 22 now, her mother was 41 and so was her father. The two 41 years olds had for the first time in their lives they weren't together, and living apart, sleeping apart and leading separate lives.

Maggie walked outside her and her husband's bedroom with nothing but her purple silk nightdress and a thin black silk dressing gown with purple lace sewn at the cuffs and bottom of the clothing, which hung on her body on her curves, meanwhile Ben walked out of Coco's small bedroom as he saw he wife his anger started to build again about his brother and her, he wished that he could forget about the thought and move on but he couldn't.

"Morning," Maggie said trying to be nice, since the incident the other morning where the two of them fought and lead to him storming out of the house and deciding to not talk to one another. 

"Morning," Ben said as he toasted the bread, buttering it and grabbing his broad leaving as quickly as he possibly could.

Maggie picked up the milk from the fridge and she began to feel dizzy, and her head began to spin out of control, when she grabbed the chair and began to sit down on the chair as her head began to feel as he was going to explode from her body, she breathed in and out with large deep breaths as she tried to control whatever was going on with her body, when it hit her, the last time she had left this bad was when she had cancer, a year ago.