Chapter 20: Too Much.
Disclaimer: Oooh I've just been learning about ownership in business studies, but unfortunately, I still don't own charmed.
A/N: So to anyone getting bored, not far to go now, I'm not finished yet but there are only a few chapters left. Anyone else (i.e. not my mean school friends) Enjoy!
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"Good evening" Piper said cheerily walking in after a few weeks of working.
"Hey." Leo greeted her. "How was work?"
"Oh it was great! You really have to come down there and check it out sometime."
"Uh huh" came Leo's reply. Piper noticed he was acting differently but managed to shake it off and sneak into the nursery to watch Melinda napping. Leo walked into the kitchen without saying another word.
They were both silent during dinner for the third time that week. And what with Piper being too busy to cook after work where she'd been cooking all day, they had been eating a lot of junk. Anyone could see that they were drifting apart.
This continued every night for the next consecutive two weeks until one night Leo finally cracked.
"Where've you been?" He almost shouted when Piper walked in the door an hour and a half late.
"Hello to you too! And we were busy so I had to work late." She said continuing with her normal nightly routine as though nothing was wrong.
"A call would have been nice!" He was losing his temper now. He didn't want to be one of those jealous husbands who couldn't allow his wife to have a life without him. He wanted to be happy for her and her new job but it was all getting too much. The feelings of him losing someone he loved more than anything but couldn't do anything about it overcame him. "I've hardly seen you all week" He added sounding hurt.
"Listen Leo, I don't need this right now. I've had a hard day at work and I just wanted to come home and relax I don't need you piling all this shit on me."
"Oh so wanting to be with my wife more is shit is it?" He asked angrily defending himself with a question to make it easier on himself.
"That's not what I meant and you know it!"
"Well apparently I don't!" He grabbed his coat and slammed the front door on his way out. Piper just sat there feeling as though she was missing something. Leo hadn't said anything about being unhappy or that he felt he was losing her. Or maybe she should have noticed it being his wife and the fact that she didn't proved that she was in the wrong. She sat contemplating all of the factors with tears streaming down her face. She hated fighting with Leo and the thought of losing him was too much for her to bear.
She woke up on the couch without even realising that she had fallen asleep and found herself covered with a blanket. Leo had obviously come home in spite of his anger. She rubbed her eyes and noticed an envelope on the coffee table with 'Piper written on it in what she recognised to be Leo's handwriting.
She picked it up and read it.
Piper,
I know that this isn't the best way of telling you this and I know that I should be there telling you myself but its just too hard. Maybe I would have done this to your face if I had the chance or the courage.
I keep telling myself that it was all just a mistake and I stand by that. I just hope that it's true.
You have to know that I never meant it to happen that way everything just got too much and I couldn't control it. I feel like my whole world has caved in and no one's here to make it right.
Anyway I guess what I'm trying to say is that I can't deal with this. I hate fighting with you, you are and always will be my world, the only thing that I live for but right now I'm not even sure that I have that.
I would do anything for you, you know that but the one thing that I can't do is lose you. If you are going to make work your priority then I can't be around.
I want to be with you but I don't know if that means the same thing as it once did. If I have already lost you and this is too late, just know that I will always love you and Melinda no matter what
Please don't hate me.
All my love, Leo.
Piper read the letter and began to cry again, she didn't really understand what Leo was trying to say. She could tell that he was confused when he wrote it. But she did know that whatever he was trying to say, it wasn't good. The paper clutched tightly in her hands was wet from the tears.
Was Leo leaving her? Leaving Melinda fatherless? And in a letter?
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A/N: OK now that was a seriously crap chapter! Even I don't know what the hell I was trying to say! Hopefully I'll be able to make it clearer in the next chapter! I'll completely understand if all your reviews say 'huh?' but if you got that, then your definitely smarter than me!