Chapter 1
Sam:
My birthday was always a special when I was with Dylan. He tried to make it as memerable as possible for me. But now it just consists of me, alone in my empty flat, celebrating my birthday without him for the first time since we got married.
When Dylan and I were together my birthday consisted of breakfast in bed, which was always a sausage sandwich with candles in and a big mug of hot chocolate. Next I would get out of bed and walk to the kitchen finding a well wrapped gift on the small dining room table. Afterwards we would take Dervla for a walk to somewhere nice and far away where no one was there to distract us from our thoughts. We would come back extremely exhausted and go straight to bed.
But this birthday I woke up at 6 am expecting Dylan to walk in with a tray with breakfast on, but he did not. In reality I was lying in bed all alone. He was not there to put his hands through my hair and kiss my head to wake me up. He was not there to give me breakfast and give me usually a rubbish gift which would still be so special to me even if I didn't use it. Just him being there with me on my birthday was a great present. How had we get into this situation?
I even had work today. How hellish. I just thought it will take my mind off the fact that me and Dylan were separated and that he will not be with me on my birthday. Or will he…
I looked at the clock and realized that it was 8 o`clock. I had been lying in bed thinking about my life with Dylan for 2 hours which meant I had to be in work in 30 minutes. I quickly jumped out of bed, got in the shower, shoved on some clothes and grabbed some toast in 15 minutes.
When I got to work, I arrived 15 minutes late, I found Zoe, Mr Jordan and the other staff members having a meeting in the staff room. I walked in and everyone just starred at me for one second when suddenly Dylan burst through the other staff room door. I got to spend my birthday with the one person I wanted to spend it with…. My sweet husband, Dylan Keogh.