She strolled over to where the baby was playing on the floor. It was almost time for him to go to bed, but she needed to talk to him. Even if he couldn't talk back.
"Hey, Aaron," she said as she picked him up,"Guess what. Mommy is going to have another baby. But don't worry, I'll still love you the same. I never thought that my dad loved me, he wasn't around much. He had another family, with Uncle Jack.I used to be jealous of that, but I think Jack would have been more than glad to share him," she smiled, "You don't have any idea what I'm talking about, do you? Oh well, I promise you, someday you will have a daddy, one who will actually stick around." She kissed the baby on the top of his head, and put him down in his crib. Then she started to laugh. Here she was, bearing her soul to her 18 month old baby, who couldn't understand any of it.
Shaking her head at her insanity, she walked into her bedroom. She wasn't tired yet. After all, it was only eight thirty. So, she decided to clean. She had dropped off Charlie's clothes at his brother's house after their fight. However, she hadn't been able to clean out the drawers of his nightstand. She didn't know why. Was it too hard for her emotionaly? Or was she afraid of finding more heroin? Maybe it was a combination of them both.Something had changed though. She was getting used to not having him around. She could do this.
She walked over to the nightstand. Knowing Charlie, it would be messy. She had never finished cleaning it that night. The bag of heroin had been sitting on top of everything else. At first she had wondered why he hadn't hid it better. Then again, she didn't clean his nightstand often. He had probably just had a fix, she thought angrily, and wasn't smart enough to hide the evidence.
Claire slowly opened the drawer, scared of what might be in there. At first all she found where the usual things, the book Charlie had been reading,a few magazines that had Driveshaft on the cover, food wrappers. Claire laughed at the food wrappers. She had always yelled at Charlie for eating in their bed. She put all these things in a pile on the floor to throw away. Except the book, she would put that in the book case.
She was just about to close the drawer when something caught her attention. In the back corner, so far back that she almost hadn't seen it, was a small black box. She picked it up, and almost dropped it when she saw what it contained. Inside the box was a beautiful diamond engagement ring.
Charlie felt a little better. Jack had promised to talk to Claire, when she was ready to hear about Charlie. Charlie didn't know what Jack had meant by that. It had been a long time since they had broken up. Wouldn't she be able to talk about him by now? Unless.. something else had happened.He hoped that Claire was okay.
Jack had seemed strange when he talked to Charlie. He was very quick to believe him, and forgive him. It was like he almost needed to forgive him. Well, maybe he just wanted to see Claire happy again. Jack had said that she might still love him.'If she still loves me I will be the luckiest man alive', thought Charlie.
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