DELUSIONS

DELUSIONS

The plane ride ended shortly. And soon I was driving us home.

Jessica says she and Cecilia are only staying over because it was so late.

They crowd my bed once again.

“Is this your house?” Prudy asks me with wide eyes as she soaks up everything.

I know it is smaller than the mansion she has lived in all of her life.

“Yes sweetie. And now it is yours too.” I tell her.

Her wide eyes get even wider as she blinks at me.

“I can live here? With you?”

“Of course baby.”

She squeals and hugs me. I pick her up and hug her too.

We make hot chocolate and sip whilst giggling, i had done this exact thing with her mother, my sister.

When she finally goes back to bed, it is about four in the morning. But I lay awake, i can’t get Leo out of my mind.

He had gotten so high once, he passed out somewhere for days, and i could not go looking for him because I was locked in the basement.

It was a passer by who saw him and saved his life, that was when he f