Easy like Sunday Morning
"Darling!" The words leaps from my lips I can hardly contain myself. I haven't been this excited about news since they announced the Tories were back in power. "Darling,listen to this." I touch her arm, shaking from the adrenaline. "You'll never guess what!" I wait, only a moment passes but I can't wait for her to give me an answer. "They've done it darling. They've fought back and won." I pirouette on the spot, hands spread out above my head. "I don't know how but they've done it. The reports say that they're going to get back into the city in a matter of days! We'll finally be saved."
I catch the words before they formulate but they slip from my grasp. "We can get out of here." I look up at her face. "I'm sorry dear, I..." I bite my bottom lip, holding back the tears. "I'm sorry."
I stand up again, happiness washing over me. "I just can't believe it. What's the date today?" She doesn't answer, she's mad at me for what I said. "The 16th? No, no. It must be later than that. Oh heck I'd forget my head if it wasn't screwed on... Anyway what does it matter how long it's been. Just two more nights, three more at most, we'll be saved. They'll fight back the creatures and sure enough we'll tell the grandchildren..." I can't help but wonder if I'll ever get the pleasure of grandchildren. But I daren't tell dear Viv that, not after she lost Tony. Ah Tony, I'm glad you died when you did otherwise you'd still be fighting just against a new enemy. "The grandchildren will love it. The month the aliens fell to earth." I touch her hand gently, flinching back at first as her cold touch startles me.
"Oh Viv, you're cold!" I rub my hands together and try to pass some of my heat on to her. "There. And then once the stories have been made and the world turn right way up again. Then things will go back to normal." I look at her face and feel sick. I've done it again.
I look in the empty sockets of my wife's face and look at the features that hadn't been effected by the bullet. If I had come to her with the news I had this morning, would she have still killed herself? I'd like to think not, but I couldn't say for certain by any means.
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