1Author's Note: This came to me last night while crying over my late grandfather and having Christmas without him. It's a bit angsty, but hey, give me a break.
Dedication: This is dedicated to two people. Kaitlyn, for one, because she's helped me through so much so far and I'm so blessed to have her as a friend.
And Shannon, because today is her birthday.
Dusty picture frames
And yellowed books
It all reminds her
Of what death took
She'd been in his study since the wake ended. It was her place of solitude and some what of a sanctuary now. Her mascara had run down her cheeks along with her previous tears, and the large lump in her throat had yet to leave her.
Her eyes are empty
Her heart is torn
He shoudln't have left
It's not how it should be
Her mind strayed to their last conversation in the sterile, unnaturally cold hospital room that mocked every patient that entered it.
"Richard..." she had begun, but he quickly cut her off.
"No. I don't want to hear it." he snapped venomously, his voice hoarse. "My insurance papers are in my desk. Lynnie can help you go through them." The pale man she so lovingly claimed as her own began coughing violently, and she instantly rushed to his aid.
He managed to get his breathing back under control and pushed her away with what little strength he could mustier in his quickly fading form. "No." he spat.
"Pennilyn?" she questioned, his previous words beginning to penitrate her mind. No, certainly she had heard him incorrectly...
"Yes. She's been my lover for majority of the separation." he whispered in reply, his life quickly slipping from his grasp. "She'll help." was his final words to her before the heart moniter crashed and signaled his passing.
He broke his promise
He broke her heart
She was to go first
That's how it was from the start
He had abandon her after she had left him. She'd only meant it to last a week and instead, it lasted the rest of his life. He'd found a lover and rubbed it in her face, even after his passing. The woman had planned his funeral and spoke his eulogy per his request, for Christ's sake!
A gleam catches her eye
It was only her wedding ring
Memories flood her mind and her eyes begin to sting
And the proud form of Emily begins to cry...
"I love you, Richard!" she sobbed suddenly. "Dammit, I love you!" She screamed as loud as her vocal cords could strain, the heartbreak finally setting in and taking over.
"You promised!" The red-haired woman collapsed in the chair she was seated in, lamenting her lost husband.
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Emily Gilmore sat up with a start, her hand clutched to her chest as a scream left her lips. That dream ... That nightmare had scared her something terrible. She looked over at the empty side of the bed.
His side of the bed...
She couldn't take it anymore. The pain was too intense. Grabbing her bathrobe and wrapping it tightly around her form, the woman practically ran down her hall way and staircase. She made her way through her home and toward the pool house residing in the back yard.
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Emily openeed the door to her husband's bedroom and almost gasped at the sight that greeted her.
There he lay, on the left side of the bed, with one of her night gowns wrapped tightly around a pillow and said pillow clutched tightly to his chest.
Silently, she moved across the room and pried the pillow from his grasp, replacing the void with her body.
Richard hugged the warm form to him tightly and snuggled against it in his sleep, quite unaware of what he was truly holding.
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The nexxt morning, Richard Gilmore awoke with a leg draped over his wife's sleeping form and his arms wrapped tightly around her slender waist.
"Oh...My..." he gasped, his eyes widening when her knee rubbed against his groin as she shifted in his sleep. He almost groaned aloud, biting down on his lip to keep quiet, and rested his head back on his pillow.
Deciding his wife should make the final decision when she gained consciousness, the man let his body drift back into a deep, peaceful slumber.
Author's Note: So... How was that for the first story in about a month? Leave a review! They make me smile a lot and make me more willing to update. :P