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"You're a good man, Peter. You're a lot better than I am, really you deserve better than me, and I honestly believe that you'll find them."

"Don't do this, Lorraine. Think about the kids."

"You see what I mean, look how good you are, I'm leaving and all you're thinking about is what it's going to do to the kids. I was never a good mother, you know that, and you'll find someone better, I'm sure of it."

"If I'm so good, why are you leaving me?"

"Because I'm not strong like you, Peter. I thought that what I wanted was a family, that I was ready for it, but I'm not. I know that when I am I'll never find a better partner for it than you, but I'm not ready to be tied to anyone yet, there's so much of this world I haven't seen yet. I have to live while I have the chance."

"This is pathetic. You made a promise to me, and you made a fucking bigger promise to the kids when you had them, you can't just walk away from them."

"I'll be a part of their lives, not so big a part as I used to be, but a part, once I get myself settled a bit more, maybe after a couple of years, I'll take them on weekends and maybe when you want to go on a vacation."

"What the fuck am I supposed to do?"

"Oh Peter, you always know what to do. Right now I'll bet your planning what you'll make the kids for breakfast, how you'll tell them that I'm gone. You'll figure something out, and in the long run it'll be better without me, you'll see."

"You're not even going to wait till they wake up so you can say goodbye?"

"I think it's better if I just go."

"It's better if you say goodbye. It's best if you don't go."

"I'm going, Peter, I've made up my mind."

"Then it is better if you say goodbye, they'll hate you forever if you don't say goodbye, or they'll blame me for your leaving."

"I'm going to go."

"How did I marry you?"

"Goodbye. I did love you. I always will deep down."

"Fuck you. Fuck off and die, it'd be better if I could tell the girls you died, instead of telling them their mother didn't love them enough to stop her from hitting the road so she could get drunk and fuck a few random men for a few more years."

 

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"I'm going. I'll call to talk to the girls after a few days."

"I won't let you speak to them."

"Peter..."

"If you're going, then go. I have to get the girls up so I can get them ready and make breakfast." "Goodbye. I love you."

"You don't even know what that fucking means." I slammed the door behind her. It might wake the girls up, but I was about to wake them up anyway so I didn't think much about it.

The girls slept in bunk beds, when I opened the door, Lucy, who slept on bottom was already awake, she smiled but I put my finger up to my lips and snuck across the room. I lifted her out of her covers and held her up to her sister's eye level.

"Wake her up." I whispered.

"Blauuuuuuuuuuughhhhhh...wake up, Cindy! WAKE UP BLAAAAEEEEEEEEEWWWWWeeeeuuuuuuuuyyyyyyyyyyyyy." Cindy jumped up with squeal.

"Daddy, why'd you let her do that?" I dug her out with my other arm and held her against my other side.

"Well, you both needed to wake up, and if you had been awake first I would have let you wake her up."

"Tomorrow I'm going to be awake first and I'm going to wake her up."

"I always wake up first, don't I, daddy?"

"That does seem to be the case. But it doesn't matter because tomorrow is Saturday and you both get to sleep in as long as you want."


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