Chapter 48 Life Goes On

(Lydia)

I was up long after Mama had gone to sleep. I was still thinking about the conversation that we had had. The house was empty and quiet. I loved the silence of my home. It felt peaceful. And my home had started to cozier after I had hung up and laid out decorations everywhere. I was wandering in the lobby with a sheet of dialogues that I had meant to go through. But, for some reason, I couldn’t concentrate.

I looked outside the window. A slight fog was settling in the atmosphere which cast a golden hue from the glare of the street lights.

I turned around when I heard a door creak open. Thomas was standing in the doorframe.

His clothes were wrinkled and his hair was a mess, as though he had been tossing and turning in bed.

His eyes were doleful and intent.

“Lydia,” the quiet carried his voice to me at the other end of the hallway.

He began walking towards me. I could not say a single word. This was the man who I had loved, the father of my children, and the one who had divorced