#impara20: forward

[lucifitzgerald]

forward

If Luci's being honest, it took her a week or so to find the courage to go back to her aunt's house to clean out her things. She's managed one room and feels accomplished, but she still has a lot to do. There's no...specific timeline on emptying the place out but, she has a feeling the longer it takes, the more painful it'll be. Ironic.

She keeps a lot of her aunt's things but not in a way that's too much or overbearing. Some clothes, a lot of pictures, jewelry, some boxes labeled 'Luci' in her closet (turns out they were books and Halloween decorations), and a lamp with pretty green stained glass in the shade.

That's just the bedroom, she wonders how the rest of the house will go.

She's in her bed with a cup of coffee, reading over one of the letters she found in her aunt's nightstand. She's not...crying, exactly, but her eyes well with tears every so often.

She wonders if she could show these to Aiden...would that be completely ridiculous? What would he think? Her digging into her aunt's past with zero context. These letters were obviously from a lover, or, someone in love with her. Before and during her marriage and pregnancy.

No one truly knows what relationships are like behind closed doors, maybe her aunt was unhappy with Chris, but then why wouldn't she just allow herself to be with Walker--or W as he sometimes referred to himself.

Nothing is ever as simple as it appears but...she wonders why her aunt never talked to her about this. About him. They shared everything...or at least, she thought they did.