All Eyes

I was going to post this yesterday but the excitement of getting my first tattoo (6620 on my wrist!) was too much for me to post lol!

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Chapter 11 – Fallen

The smell of a freshly baked cake lingered in the air, the sound of a young Molly Drake giggling echoed around Alex as the padded down the stairs. She could hear Molly talking to herself and her toy dolls, enacting some scene or another as they had a little tea party, drinking imaginary drinks from the little plastic cups; picking them up, slurping exaggeratedly before chatting again.

She wanted to go into the living room, she wanted to see her daughters smiling face but there was something stopping her, there was something in the air, something that was pulling her towards the kitchen. She felt like she would never reach the kitchen door, her legs felt heavy like concrete pillars and her vision was blurred a little, as though she was squinting after a long cry, eyes damp and hazy.

"Mummy, come sit down! We have cake at our tea party!" Molly called.

"Yeah, come sit down love, we need to talk"

That was Pete's voice. What was he doing here? This was her house not his! Her vision began to clear as she turned back towards the living room, looking around the hallway. The blue patterned wallpaper on the walls stirred up a thousand memories, the wallpaper that Pete had chosen and had the decorators put up before she even knew that he'd found them a house. The wallpaper she had ripped off the walls with her bare hands when she had come home and found Pete packing his bags, leaving her.

She squeezed her eyes shut tight, and upon opening them the scene had changed, no longer was she stood in the hallway, but in the bedroom.

"I'm leaving you Ally, I've been cheating on you for the past three or four years" Pete spoke with no emotion as he stood at the end of the bed "One night stands, affairs, you name it I've done it"

"Daddy is a bad man" Molly smiled sweetly, sat in the middle of the bed "But you love him don't you mummy?"

"That spa weekend I got you for your birthday, when Evan watched Molly for the weekend, that was just to get you out of the way so I could sleep with my secretary in our bed, she still wears your blouse that I said she could have, I lied about ruining it in the wash"

"Daddy is a bad, bad man, but you still love him lots don't you mummy?"

"I only married you because I got you pregnant, I was planning on leaving you but you ruined it for me"

"Daddy ruined it for you mummy, didn't he? He ruined your chance of ever being happy"

Alex sat bolt up in her bed, sweating profusely and bursting into tears. Her heart was racing as she made Gene jump, he turned away from the wardrobe to look at her.

"I'm sorry Alex" he sighed.

"Gene? What on earth are you doing?"

She knew as soon as she saw the suitcase, but she didn't want to believe it. He was leaving her, wasn't he? Just like that bastard of an ex-husband had done! She knew that she should never have trusted him, they were all the same. Heartless bastards right to the core.

"I think I should move out, even if it's just for a while" He sighed "This obviously isn't going to work if I'm still around all the time, you don't want to marry me and we'll just have to deal it"

"Why the hell would I want to marry you?! Look at you! You're running away!"

Gene didn't have the energy to fight with her; he had barely slept and this was painful enough already. So instead of causing a fuss and arguing with her, all he did was just pack himself some more essential clothes and said that he was sorry, before leaving his key to the flat on the dining table and going, leaving Alex to sit in bed alone and sob uncontrollably. This time she didn't have any wallpaper to tear down.

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