{eddie kaspbrak ff}
Allison Cox was a rich popular girl with a love of hockey and her life was average until her friends cut her off. Starting her summer in the worst way possible, things start brightening up when she meets a group of unlikely frien...
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Time had flown by quicker than anyone had ever imagined and things changed drastically. After graduating high school with average grades, I went to college and completed a Journalism course and pursued my dream job of writing. Eddie and I remained friends all the way through high school, getting closer all the time and when we graduated, we ended up going to the same college and he finally worked up the courage to ask me out officially. Richie had almost slapped us for waiting that long to finally get together but he was happy for us and I was finally happy because I was dating the best guy out there. When we graduated college, Eddie and I moved to New York, somewhere that he had both been desperate to live ever since he was a little kid. The only downside was that it felt like we were living his dream more than anything else, my dream was some suburban town with a small house that had a white picket fence and a bright red door.
But when you're in a relationship, you make sacrifices and since Eddie was happy, I was happy. He started his job as a Risk Analysist for a big insurance company and I started a job as a journalist for this popular newspaper in the city. I not only wrote articles about what was going on in the world, but I also managed to write reviews for books, television shows and films. When it felt like our careers were stable and we had a nice apartment, we got married. Eddie popped the question at this big fancy restaurant and we had the reception at this posh hotel; making sure that the ceremony was only small because we didn't want anything that was too over the top. Life felt perfect for a while, we were happily married, had good jobs and had our own apartment with a goldfish that kept me company when Eddie went on his business trips.
Then something changed. For years when we were in New York, Eddie had been doing great and was a completely different person to the scared overly-paranoid boy that I had known back in Derry but then overnight he started going back to his old ways. It started with a bunch of pills in the bathroom cabinet, for things that he didn't even suffer with and then I found him using his asthma pump which he hadn't needed since he was fourteen. We started arguing more, about stupid things mostly but it was getting tiring and it didn't feel like we were in love like we had been when we were teenagers. Eddie was the best thing that had ever happened to me and I didn't want to lose him, he didn't want to lose me either and so we were trying everything to stay together; including expanding our family. We moved into a bigger apartment and had two kids.
Mia and Leo are the most important things in my life, even more important than my husband and my job; but now that they were growing up, it made me realise that having them didn't solve my marriage problems. Now that I was being left with the childcare duties, Eddie and I weren't even seeing each other and when we did, all we did was argue. Things had changed over the last twenty-seven years but I never thought that this would happen. I always thought that no matter what, I would have Eddie by my side, but as we were getting older, it felt like I was losing him in a different way. It seemed like we were living his perfect life and they were conflicting in more than one way, the location, my role in the house and our future as a family. When we had the kids, we agreed to split the caretaking role but he forgot about that when they were born and now I was staying at home, I had given up my job and even though they are the most important things in my life; it didn't seem fair that everything changed for me and nothing changed for him.
