mediiicals:
there it was. the real reason she moved across the country. being around andrea and jamie seemed like a good enough excuse, but a broken relationship was bigger than that. “oh ariana,” she whispered - waving her sister closer to her. andrea gave the plastic bench two pats, hoping she’d sit next to him. while her sister spoke, she could see the evident pain in her eyes. joe and ariana had been together for so long, they had built this beautiful life together and for it all of a sudden just be gone? that couldn’t have been easy. andrea had made her mistakes, but she didn’t know what she would do without caleb in her life. at one point, that was the same for ariana and her husband. “first of all, you can always talk to me about anything in your life. no matter what is happening with me, i’m still your sister.” she placed her hand onto her knee, hazel eyes focusing in on a pair that looked the exact same. “and second, falling out of love happens. we’ve seen it with our own two eyes, right? what is joe saying?” how was she supposed to go about this? it was hard to think about. “are you happy like that? sleeping in separate rooms, barely seeing your husband, living with someone that you dont love anymore? can you live the rest of your life like that?” andrea couldn’t be. “you deserve everything, ariana. you have to remember that your happiness is more important than his. it’ll be hard, but you and your kids will get through it. like you said, you’re here now so you’ll me and even jamie to help you. i know why you dont want to leave him, but look how we turned out. if you ask me, we’re pretty great.”
Ariana nodded as she sat, she knew that her sister would be there for her through anything and she felt silly for not telling her sooner but maybe it was because she was ashamed. “Joe barely says anything.” Her hands flew out in a sign on exasperation. “If he says anything it’s him undermining me or having the last word. He won’t talk about this properly apart from when we had a therapist and he said he’d work on it but it just went straight back to normal. He’ll spend time with the kids and he’ll play with them while I’m doing the housework and then he’ll go out with his friends and leave me to do the girl’s bedtime routines by myself.” She felt herself getting annoyed just as the thought of it. “Of course I’m not happy but the girls are oblivious to anything that is going on. Gabriella is four years old, she’ll want to know why daddy isn’t there to play with her when mommy’s too busy doing the housework.” A resigned sigh left her lips and she looked her sister in the eyes. “I don’t want to be like dad. I don’t want to be the person who rips my family apart. I’d be okay, I’d be fine, but they’re still so little. They need us together. Say we wait until Gabriella’s eighteen and off to college, that’s still fourteen years from now and then it’ll be too late for us to really find anything else so we’ll just stay together until we die, unhappy. I want to be with someone who loves me, but realistically speaking, who’s going to want to be with someone like me, someone with this amount of baggage. Everyone knows that girls with kids don’t get the guy.” A silent tear slipped down her cheek, she wasn’t usually one to show her emotions but sometimes it just got the better of her and she felt like around Andrea she was able to let her guard down.









