Sophie Street by N/A

Author:N/A
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Canelo Books
Published: 2016-06-03T04:00:00+00:00

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Several people had been to look at Jennie and Peter’s house. Jennie met them and showed them around the home she and Peter had once built up with such pride, now nothing more than a property someone would take off her hands. Everything in it had been purchased to make it more their own, a place with a character they had helped form, a unique atmosphere they had fashioned for themselves and which was like no other. Now it was something to destroy, break up and disperse like a stage set when the run had ended.

At the end of April they had received an offer for the full amount and Jennie went to see Peter, to arrange a time to go to the estate agents together and set the sale in motion. He refused.

“But Peter, we agreed!” She was exasperated. “This is what we decided. You and I no longer live as a married couple, so we cut everything we have built in half, and go our separate ways. It’s what happens when two people no longer love each other.”

“I think we should give it a bit longer, give ourselves a chance to work things out.”

“Why? We might wait months for another chance to sell. I want to start living my life again, not spend week after week sitting here waiting for you and your precious mother to make up your mind!”

She argued with him for almost two hours, while he sat in a chair in what had been their living room, straight-backed, feet neatly together and remained obdurate.

The following day she went to talk to his mother.

“The value of the property will go down, not up, with the paint work already showing the effects of several winters. There are rooms that need decorating and the place will soon have that abandoned atmosphere that puts prospective buyers off quicker than noisy neighbours,” she explained calmly.

Later that evening, Peter put a note through the door telling her he would be at the estate agents the following lunchtime. Instead of being pleased, Jennie was sad. Sad to be reminded once again that it was his mother he listened to, and that a discussion with her, his wife, had made no difference at all.

Peter was aching with misery. He wanted to go back to his marriage, but how could he? If he made all the promises Jennie wanted him to make and even if they moved away from his parents, as she also wanted, nothing would really change. She would still be overbearingly stubborn and insist on having a say in everything they did. She accused him of being weak where his mother was concerned but couldn’t see that she was any different.

After meeting her at the estate agent and dealing with the initial steps towards selling their house, he didn’t go back to the office. He couldn’t face the routine as though nothing had happened. Not caring where he went, he wandered through the town, and out towards the lake.

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