How did we get here?
Chapter 2:
Maria the woman Will and Sophie had hired to give them a helping hand around home was pacing back and forwards outside of the house. Sophie's stride quickened and when she got closer and Maria saw her she broke into a run towards her a terrifying look painted on her usually kind, warm face.
Sophie's pace quickened and she could hear the bottom of her boots hitting the pavement loudly as she all but ran towards Maria who had began moving towards her.
"Maria what's going on" The woman stopped when Sophie arrived in front of her taking in the tired woman,
"Oh dear you look cold come inside"
"Maria!" Sophie exclaimed, but the woman had turned and hurried inside. She followed her in and finally the older woman turned back to her,
"Sophie, it's wil-" Sophie's heart constricted before sinking into the pit of her stomach as her eyes widened,
"What, what's wrong. Where is he? What happened?" A hundred and one questions exploded in her mind and the worst possible scenarios ran through her head. Had there been an accident at work?
Was he hurt?
"Maria what's going on?" She all but yelled,
"Oh love" The older woman who had come to love Sophie like a daughter shook her head as she watched Sophie fall apart and become stressed, she didn't want to break the news to the woman and tears welled in her eyes,
"It's Will. He's gone Sophie, he...he's gone" Sophie spun around at the voice behind her, perplexed and confused. Anna the other younger daughter of an old blacksmith stood behind her tears running down her face,
"What do you mean he's gone?" Sophie questioned,
"I mean he's gone...gone, gone. His stuff is gone, he's taken his clothes and some of the important things and he's gone Sophie, he..." The young woman broke off,
Sophie was confused she looked back to Maria her brow creased who nodded but she turned and disappeared up the hall towards the bedroom that belonged to both her and Will. She pushed the door open and walked in and she gasped.
As she looked into the room she knew, she knew it was true, he was gone.
He was gone.
The words ran over and over through her head. She saw the spot where their picture an elderly artist had drawn of them, gone. He'd taken it with him along with the one of the two girls. Their two girls, their daughters.
How could he leave them? Suddenly Sophie felt angry, a surge of anger towards him, how could he leave them?
She sighed and went to lean back against the wall but decided against it instead moving out of their room and down the hall to see her daughters.
She moved into the room her heart sinking when she spied Charlottes tears. She moved to her daughter who stretched her arms out to her when she sat on the side of the bed,
"Mummy" the little girl breathed the word out as she sobbed quietly,
"Mummy I..I want Daddy back...Mummy please..please get him back" She started to really cry clutching onto her mother,
"Oh Charlotte Honey he will be back love...he's not gone forever sweetheart. He'll be back soon okay" She assured her daughter the little girl nodded and Sophie slid into bed beside the young girl who wrapped her tiny arms around her. After a while finally Charlotte drifted asleep in Sophie's arms. The woman pulled herself out of bed carefully making sure to not wake the sleeping girl. Pulling up the blankets she tucked her in and kissed her forehead before moving out of the room and shutting the door behind her.
Sophie moved down the hall to the next room pushing the door open slightly until she could see her other daughter Jane, sleeping soundly. Her heart settled for a minute knowing that her two children were for the moment safe. Now she needed to think, she needed to work out what she was going to do. She needed to work out what on earth had just happened.
Hey guys please review, still deciding whether to keep going or not
Thanks for reading
Nina xx