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intheheart) wrote2012-03-13 04:18 pm
intheheart) wrote2012-03-13 04:18 pm
Wonder
Title: Wonder
Rating: PG.
Summary: Three views of a divorce.
Warnings: Adultery.
Notes: I just found out about Kayleigh today. YOU COULD HAVE TOLD ME SOONER, ZACK.
Paige is the oldest, and she sees the divorce most clearly. The rage in her parents' voices, her mother striking and clawing at her father, the fallout of an imploding marriage, she sees and hears it all.
She keeps her head down these days. She stays in her room, mostly, or walks for hours, circling her neighborhood just so she doesn't have to be in the house. She still hears too clearly: vicious words, accusations, bitter recriminations.
Her parents think she's oblivious, but she knows about the woman. She knows about the baby.
She just doesn't know what to think.
--
It's his fault, the divorce.
Paige says it isn't. Hell, his parents say it isn't, but Zack knows the truth. Wasn't he the one who told his mother about the woman in the café? Wasn't he the one who kept track of all the times Dad smelled like perfume or came home late? Now his family is falling apart, and it's all his fault.
He avoids Mom and Dad, and Paige, because she's least guilty in this whole mess. He doesn't want to see the condemnation he knows is in their eyes.
He doesn't want to see any of this.
--
It was over by the time she was three months old, but Kayleigh still knows everything. Her father throws it in her mother's face every time he comes, after all.
You ruined my life with your brat, he shouts at her. He never says this to Kayleigh-- to her, he's sweet and loving, like a father should be. But she has ears. She knows what he really thinks.
She wonders about her siblings sometimes, the mysterious half-brother and sister she's never been allowed to meet. What do they think of this, of her?
She doesn't know if she wants to know.
Rating: PG.
Summary: Three views of a divorce.
Warnings: Adultery.
Notes: I just found out about Kayleigh today. YOU COULD HAVE TOLD ME SOONER, ZACK.
Paige is the oldest, and she sees the divorce most clearly. The rage in her parents' voices, her mother striking and clawing at her father, the fallout of an imploding marriage, she sees and hears it all.
She keeps her head down these days. She stays in her room, mostly, or walks for hours, circling her neighborhood just so she doesn't have to be in the house. She still hears too clearly: vicious words, accusations, bitter recriminations.
Her parents think she's oblivious, but she knows about the woman. She knows about the baby.
She just doesn't know what to think.
--
It's his fault, the divorce.
Paige says it isn't. Hell, his parents say it isn't, but Zack knows the truth. Wasn't he the one who told his mother about the woman in the café? Wasn't he the one who kept track of all the times Dad smelled like perfume or came home late? Now his family is falling apart, and it's all his fault.
He avoids Mom and Dad, and Paige, because she's least guilty in this whole mess. He doesn't want to see the condemnation he knows is in their eyes.
He doesn't want to see any of this.
--
It was over by the time she was three months old, but Kayleigh still knows everything. Her father throws it in her mother's face every time he comes, after all.
You ruined my life with your brat, he shouts at her. He never says this to Kayleigh-- to her, he's sweet and loving, like a father should be. But she has ears. She knows what he really thinks.
She wonders about her siblings sometimes, the mysterious half-brother and sister she's never been allowed to meet. What do they think of this, of her?
She doesn't know if she wants to know.