Chapter number 10. Separation blues

"Jemma" Matt called out placing a plastic bag with something in it on the round wooden table next to the kitchen as he came inside the house. There was no answer so he called out again louder, "Jemma", but still he heard no answer from her, he began to look around the corner and down the hall way, the place was way to quiet for his liking, something just wasn't right. He opened the bedroom door, the room looked a little different than it had this morning, it seamed emptier and more lonelier, something was missing, but he couldn't put his finger on what it was.

Still wondering what was going on Matt made his way back out to the kitchen to get a glass of water, but on his way a note on the bench caught his eye, it was Jemma's hand writing.

Dear Matt,

I've been trying to come to terms with the way things are, and no matter how hard I try I can't. I know I've said it before in the last few months, but I'll say it again, the Matt I've seen every day in the last few years isn't the Matt I fell in love with when I first met you.

Although it's hard for me to do, I have no choice but to leave, I've taken anything that belongs to me already so I won't be coming back until I'm ready to face things, whether it's to come back to this marriage or to get a divorce. While I'm gone you should probably thing about what the point of this marriage was, because, lets be honest, at the moment it's all a one way street, I've tried to work around things but nothing I try has worked.

If your panicking thinking I'm going to go to the police like I threatened to the other day, you can calm down, I'm not going to tell anyone, I just don't want anything to do with any of this, not even to turn you in. Even though I don't think what your doing is right, I still just want to wish you luck with it all, if it's important enough to risk our marriage for it, then it must be very important to you, and I know how much this marriage ment to you, you made it very clear on our wedding day.

Goodbye, I love you,

Jemma xxx

Matt staired at the letter, reading it over and over again, he should of seen this coming, now that he thought about it he was surprised it had taken this long to happen. He finally put the letter back in it's place on the bench slowly, he then spotted a picture further along that was taken on their wedding day, on top of it was Jemma's wedding ring sitting right in the center, he picked up the ring in one hand and the photo in the other studying it closely, looking at the smiles on their faces, they used to be so happy. "I love you too Jemma" he whispered sadly beginning to cry, "I love you too".

About half an hour's drive away in a blue car Jemma was driving along a old dirt road slowly, like Matt she was crying, this was one of the hardest things she'd had to do in a long time, her tears ran down her face thickly, almost blurring the sight of the road ahead of her.

"Hello" Rose greeted Martha cheerfully as she came through the door with Boyd close behind her

"Well someone's had a lot of coffee" Martha laughed looking up from where she was sitting on the floor playing with Dylan.

"No actually the doctor told me I wasn't aloud any of that stuff, he said it had too much caffeine in it or something like that" Rose told her.

"Hu?" Martha asked looking confused, but then that look turned into worry, "please don't tell me you've got a deadly disease too".

"No, she's going to be fine" Boyd laughed.

"I'm just pregnant" Rose added.

"Oh my goodness, that's great news Rose" Martha exclaimed getting up off the floor and giving her a hug, "congratulations, to both of you".

"Thanks" Boyd answered her as she gave him a hug too.

"Hey, how are you feeling?" Lucas asked Maddie who was sitting in the dinner looking very lost.

"How do you think I'm feeling?" she replied blankly.

"I don't know, you've hardly said more than a few words all day".

"I was down at the hospital earlier" Maddie explained, "there starting Serena's chemotherapy today".

"And that's supposed to be a good thing Maddie, the sooner she starts the sooner she's going to get better" he reassured her.

"Yeah that's if she gets better".

"Maddie" Lucas sighed putting his arm around her shoulder, "your starting to sound like Jack was the other day, it's not going to help anyone".

"I know I'm sorry, I'm just worried".

"We all are".

"So that's the last check up we have to do before sending you in" Dr Simpson told Serena as she put the thermometer back in the draw. "We'll send you down for your chemo in about five minutes, ok?"

"Ok" Serena answered nervously.

"I've just got to check on another patient so I'll be back to get you soon" The doctor explained, writing something down on her clip board before leaving the room.

"You wouldn't of wanted me to do this would you?" Matt said still stairing aimlessly at the photo that had been on the kitchen bench, "you wouldn't of wanted me to kill anyone just for revenge" she continued sobbing, "I can't keep doing this, it's not who I'm supposed to be, I didn't even notice how out of control I was until you left me".

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