The Song Prompt for this weeks was:
In a Lonely Place, by The Smithereens
It was only the washing line, but when it snapped it felt
like the last string of sanity that had held her together through this
nightmare.
Gemma sank down to the floor, propped up by the corners of
the kitchen cabinets. Her sobs wracked her entire body with no end in sight.
She relived the moment he’d walked out the door, and the urge she’d had to
fling herself at his legs and hold onto him and stop him walk out the door. She
wanted to beg him to stay, but she hadn’t, after watching her mother do it when
her father left she knew it wouldn’t make any difference.
She never imagined it would end; she imagined that this was
them set for the rest of their lives. She couldn’t believe that the decision
had been made over a simple argument about doing a First Aid course, but it
hadn’t really been the course had it? It had been about the fact that he hadn’t
wanted to do it with her, and he hadn’t wanted to do anything with her for more
than six months now.
She had no idea how it had broken, but it had, and she couldn’t
fix it.
Eventually the tears stopped, but she remained where she
was, still hitching. She knew she had to get up even though she didn’t want to.
She wondered what would happen if she didn’t, if she sat there forever; would
anyone notice? Would anyone care?
One of the cats came over and put a paw on her leg, looking
at her with worried eyes. Gemma’s heart squeezed with the love for her cat
Millie, right there and then. She loved them like they were her children –
people even thought they were when she talked about them.
She reached out her hand and Millie pushed her head against
it, her purr starting up, deep and reassuring. Then she stepped into Gemma’s
lap and curled up in one move.
Tears flooded Gemma’s eyes and poured down her face, dripping
onto her top and onto Millie’s fur, causing her skin to twitch at each drop. In
the deep darkness Gemma found light and comfort. She was grateful for that.
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