Scattered pictures
of the smiles we left behind
Smles we gave to one another
From the way we were
'And where would that be too?' Randy said in shock 'I've lived here my hole life, I LIKE it here... I don't want to move anywhere else!'
'Well,' Maria said trying to think something up to follow that 'Then me and you can't be, I'd actually like to live in Chicago.'
'You want to set up a family in Chicago!?' He stuttered.
'Who said anything about starting up a family?'
He shook his head and sat on the sofa. His face was hidden by his hands. He sighed and kept shaking his head. It got to 11 PM and Maria had tried EVERYTHING in her right mind to make her talk to him, she made him dinner. He didn't eat it. She made him coffee, he didn't drink it. He just sat there watching the football game. She understood he was interested but, he would've talked to her even if it was in short sentences. She finally gave up.
'I'm going to bed,' She told him 'We'll talk tomorrow, I don't care anymore, we're gonna talk tomorrow and that's the end of it - think of a conclusion!'
He turned the TV off and her face light up, would he talk to her. No luck he got up to the turn the lights off and lock the door then he lay back on the sofa covered himself in the checked, soft cotton blanket and watched the TV like nothing else was there. She shook his head and went to bed. She lay in bed looking at the white ceiling. She thought about what had happened today, it had been such a long day. She couldn't sleep, she couldn't sleep at the thought of one of her best friends is probably hating her right now, wanting to kill her. She got up and turned her bed side light on. She heard the muffled sound of the TV on in the living room. She opened her drawers in the bottom drawer there was this box with "Randy's Pictures" on the top. She didn't want to open it but she felt as if there was an urge to just rip off the top and scramble through them. She kept nearly taking off the lid in the end she just went for it. There were loads of pictures she picked up the box and slowly placed it on the end of the bed. She went through every picture, most of them where of Randy and Eve when they where together. She felt so bad. She felt as if there was a knife been put right in the middle of her heart. The thought of Eve and Randy together, sickened her. She loved Randy so much with all of her heart and she KNEW if anything happened or was happening to him she'd save him first, she always dreamt of having kids and bringing up a family with Randy, when he mentioned the family earlier her eyes had light up and she smiled when she knew she shouldn't have been smiling. The bedroom door opened and she scattered the pictures everywhere, Randy looked at her, then at the pictures on the floor. He bent down and picked up a picture of him, Maria and Eve. He opened her hand and gave it to her. He opened up his arms and she got up with the photo still in her hand. He hugged her tightly. She felt safe, she felt like she was falling in love all over again.
'We'll move to Chicago,' He told her brushing her beautiful beetroot red hair out of her eyes 'I'm sorry, I just thought I would never move out of here. But I love you and I want you to be happy.'
She looked up into this beautiful blue eyes she placed her hand on his cheek pinching it too, but not in a hurtful way. He kissed her nose.
'Oh babe, I want you to be happy too..' She told him.
'As long I'm with you and you're happy I'm happy and WHEN we get married I want a lovely house OR flat!' Randy told her caressing her face.
'I love you,' She told him.
'I love you too!'
His phone beeped.
'Leave it!' She told him 'Please.'
'I have to take it, it might be Vince or John or...' Randy started but then stopped because Maria was giving him a dirty look.
'Yeah, sure, don't worry.'
Randy answered his phone he kept nodding and saying yes etc.
'Okay, I'll be over in a minute.'
'Where are you going!?'
'I'm sorry, I'm sorry, Vince wants me to go to London for a week, urgently. He didn't think he'd need me - you can come if you like!?'
'London?' She smiled 'Away from here? Away from Eve!?'
He laughed and nodded and started packing. 'Actually, yeah, she is!'
'Damn, I'll come... London? Not been there in a while actually, I will.'
He kept packing and then started packing more of her clothes she watched him, cloesly. She didn't want him and Eve together by thereselfs she hadn't EVER left him and Eve on her own like that, well not since they've been together. She might've seemed over-protective, but she loved him and she knew Eve had feelings for Randy and Maria thought Randy may still think about Randy aswell.. She had to go, she couldn't let them be alone. Even if it meant bringing herself and Eve further apart.