Ivy Winthrop
Ivy taped up her last box. She looked around at the empty garage apartment. It looked so small. Suddenly there was a knock at her door. She opened it to find Ethan on the other side.
"The truck is here," he said.
"Ok, all of the boxes are ready so just send them up," Ivy responded in a soft voice.
Ethan left again to get the movers. Soon enough, everything was loaded in the truck. Ivy walked downstairs to take one final look at the Bennet house. She stood in the living room and looked around. Sam was not there, she knew he wouldn't be, he had nothing left to say to her. Still she did have a small hope that maybe he would come through the door just before she left. But she knew that could never happen. She would never see or hear from him again.
She took a final walk around the living room looking at all of the pictures. Pictures from years ago, when the Bennets were a happy family. Well, all of that had changed. Ivy had seen to that. She stopped at one picture. It was taken shortly after Charity had arrived in Harmony. Sam and Grace were seated in the middle. Around them were Kay, Jessica, Charity, and Hank. Kay actually appeared happy around Charity and her mom. Jessica looked happy too. A tear came to Ivy's eye. A beautiful family, destroyed by her. And for what? She gained nothing from it really. A brief romance with Sam, but that did not last nearly as long as she had hoped. Instead for the rest of her life she would always be hated by the man she loved so dearly.
"Are you ready, mom?" Ethan asked, interrupting her thoughts.
Ivy quickly wiped away the tear. "Yes, Ethan, it is time to leave this place. There is nothing left here."
"Don't worry, Baltimore will be a great place to start over."
"Yes, I suppose. At least I still have you, the one person who can actually still stand to look at me." Ivy said smiling at her son.
"Well, I am not proud of all of the things you have done, but no matter what, you will always be my mother, and I love you. But we need to get going, get ahead of the traffic."
"I'm so glad you are coming with me."
"Well, you're not the only one who has nothing left for them here. You are all that I have," Ethan responded, reflecting on some memory, long behind him now.
"We will both start fresh, and we'll never look back. Harmony is in the past, and I for one will be pleased if we never come back."
Ethan and Ivy walked to the front door and without looking back got into their car and drove away. They drove all the way to Baltimore where they had bought a small house just outside the city. The two were never seen or heard from again by anyone in Harmony.