I kept glancing at my mother out of the corner of my eye to judge her reaction to my driving. My hands had a vice like grip on the steering wheel as I was paranoid that I was going to make a mistake. We started off slowly as she taught me to drive down the narrow roadways. I was beyond stressed that morning as my mother is a perfectionist and I didn't want to disappoint her. I learned about the secret during my first driving lesson with my mother. We get our fair share of tourists throughout the year as they love to wander the walking trails that criss-cross the outskirts.įrom the outside our town would be regarded as perfect but we hide a dark secret that only the inhabitants know about. I come from a quaint little town in Ireland that most tourists would regard as picturesque. “Something I can help you with?” I asked. A roller suitcase lay by his feet, which meant Ashley from Pilates was right: the bastard had gone off trapezing across the globe. But now a pale, gaunt version of my ex-boyfriend was standing on the porch, wearing the chequered shirt I’d bought him for his 30th birthday, which now flapped around in the breeze, a sheet drying on the line. I’d actually begun thinking he’d never show his face around town again. There hadn't been a peep out of that bastard (besides a few vague phone calls to his ex-Rugby pals) in months. I mean, who needs some selfish prick clinging to them like a leech? Better to be a single parent if you ask me.īut then, two weeks from my due date, an alert from the video doorbell woke me at midnight, and my immediate reaction was: oh bollocks, my child’s gonna have a crack addict for a father… After all, it's not like he cleared out our current account or stole the car-he just fucked off without so much as a ‘best wishes’ text, nice and simple. I'd called Darren many names since he disappeared after my first prenatal scan, but a blood-sucking parasite wasn't one of them.
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