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MOLLY
Present Day
Molly you live in a fairytale.
I’ve heard some form of this for most of my life.
My father said it to me as I sat beside my mother, holding her hand and
begging him and the doctors to do absolutely everything and anything to
bring her back as she took her last breaths.
“I’m sorry, sweetie,” he said as he stroked my hair and then kissed the
top of my head. “We don’t live in a fairytale. Nothing can save your
mommy.”
The bullies in high school said it when I fell for their cruel trick. They
made me believe the cutest boy in my class, Devon, was interested in me,
the tall, awkward girl with unruly red hair and a face full of freckles. They
laughed as they watched him humiliate me on a Friday afternoon, right
before Homecoming.
“The only way he’d date you is if we lived in a fairytale,” one of them
sneered as I stood in the hallway with tears streaming down my cheeks.
When I was fired from my job at the bookstore, my boss said I couldn’t
spend my time living in fairytales because I needed to actually help
customers. He didn’t particularly like it when I told him I believed reading
was the most important part of my job.
“Molly, you live in a fairytale,” the woman who’s been screwing my
soon-to-be-ex-boyfriend scoffs as I stand crying at the foot of our bed, in
the bedroom we shared for the past month.
How does she even know my name when I don’t know hers?
My boyfriend, Hal, doesn’t even acknowledge me. Coward.
They both watch me as I grab my duffel bag from the closet and pack
my meager belongings. I moved in with Hal a month ago to save money
after I was fired. I sold most of my stuff to pay bills until I found a new job.
Now it seems I’ll have to find a new place to live as well. So long savings.
Everyone is wrong; I don’t live in a fairytale. I live in a nightmare.
“Molly, wait,” Hal calls out right before I reach the front door.
I turn, stupidly hopeful he’ll change his mind and beg me to stay, and
watch as he stumbles out of the bed, picks up his baggy, blue-striped
boxers, and covers his nakedness. His body is so pale it practically glows in
the dim light of the apartment.
It’s as though I’m seeing him for the first time. He’s tall and lanky, with
a patchy beard that grows mainly along his jawline but doesn’t quite reach
his cheeks. He never shaves it off, which always annoyed me. Did I really
find this man attractive?
“I need your key,” he says. “To the apartment.”
I dig into my pocket, pull out my keys, and remove the one for his
apartment. The petty part of me wants to throw it across the room but I
don’t. Instead, I shuffle back to the scratched kitchen table and set it down.
I look up at him, but his face is turned away.
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