Suzy, Arin and the other kids were constantly taking shifts to look out of the windows in expectancy of Aletta's return. It'd been a week since I last had spoken to Arin's spirit on the topic of my darling's where abouts. During all of this drama I was managing to get content out for my channel.

The day my life turned for the better was on Friday 13th. Her bright red car pulled up in front of the garden early that morning just as I woke up to check on Kevin. "Mark? Mark?" She called.

"A-Aletta?" I said from the top of the stairs. "Is that you?" I hear whispering from the room the kids were in. I ran down the stairs, no- one was waiting for me. I heard footsteps on the landing and little whispers too.

"AlettAHHHH!" I said as she came out from the broom closet and jumped on my back, I caught her so it looked like the perfect piggy back. I spun around so that she ended up facing me.

"Baby!" She said as her mascara tears ran down the front of my neck. "Baby, I missed you! I'm sorry, I needed to gather my thoughts. I didn't want to upset the kids or you! Baby, please say something!" She cried. I froze holding her in my arms and thought- 'I haven't held her like this since last year's anniversary.'

"Darling, your hand fits in mine like it's made for me. Every love story is beautiful, but ours, it's my favourite." I replied.

"I want to be your favourite hello and you hardest goodbye!" We loved making dumb 'cute couple' quotes at each other it's what we started doing when I had no idea what she looked like.

"You already are darling, you already are…" I held her close to my chest.

"Awww!" I heard the kids from the top of the stairs. Suzy had my phone in her hand, she decided it would be funny to take a photo.

"Suzy!" I said happily. She had the picture perfectly shot from the right angle, nobody was in the way so I can say it was the magic of the timer on my phone.

"I want you to remember today!" Suzy replied. Arin nodded and brought my phone down to me. I realized kids can quote what you say.

We had a proper breakfast that day, working together, Aletta and I made a full English breakfast. While doing so the kids were happily drawing and talking at the table.

I asked, "Why Idaho?"

"My good friend, Paola, from secondary school owns a hotel there, don't worry I didn't tell her anything." She got right down to business.

"Good, good. So the photo Suzy took will stay on my phone but I won't mention it until someone asks." I stated.

"What will you say to that someone?" Aletta has and always will be very persistent.

"I don't know yet but it definitely won't be the whole truth." I said as the answer was still in working progress.

It was a feeling I'd gotten the day I met her online, the feeling summoned had its self again. It was pure happiness that I couldn't express fully. I realized this whole time she had kept on her hoodie on over her arms, maybe she was cold, I wasn't going to judge her. Her long plaited pig tales lay perfectly against her covered arms… Her face, it seemed half happy and half, depressed? All I could look at was her arms and hope to god she hadn't. We all watched TV again because the kids seemed to enjoy it.

A night that I was never to forget happened. She got changed before I came to bed and when I eventually came in she was laying down with the hoodie still on. I'd went to bed and slept for a while. When I awoke to check on Kevin she had taken off the hoodie and she did it… oh no, she lied to me? There was cuts running all the way down her arm. One of them was still bleeding like it was recent. How could she? All she had to do was tell me, but she resorted to this?

Casually, I got up to go and check on the baby (who I had to change) and after I washed my hands, I returned. Aletta was strewn around most of the bed, when I rolled her over, she had a sleeve of cuts on the other side too. I put my arms around her waist and locked them, hugging her so that she couldn't move to do anymore damage during that night. I put the alarm on earlier so that I could talk to her about it in the morning. At the end of the day we had to worry about the kids but it was my duty to worry about Aletta too. The more I thought about it I understood less and less…