(Forsaken) Fresh start

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 Cat kissed Genevieve’s forehead as she lay in the crib. It had been the first thing put up in the new house. She moved almost silently to Robert’s room and looked in on him, still at the computer and it was getting late.

“Bed” She said no hint of arguing to her voice. He tutted and slammed the game pad down on the floor muttering under his breath. Had she been that obnoxious at 15, probably, she mused. She wandered past the other first changes room and looked in, she was asleep, that was one less thing to think about right now.
She took a deep breath and moved down the stairs towards the new living room and looked at the mountain of boxes. She hated moving house, but a new start was needed, a fresh start. She opened up a box and looked inside, there was a photo of her and Marcus on the top of the books. She sat down and looked at the picture. It was a posed shot, one of those white walled professional jobs. It had been the photo that had been put in the paper, the one that his parents had scaled up and turned into a canvas for their living room. the blue jeans, the white t-shirts, her hair professionally styled to look unstyled and the makeup immaculate yet ever so natural. She smiled remembering his insistence that it was the last thing she’d have to do to please his parents, and how she’d caved under the pressure. She really had loved him, and it was fear that had made her wander away. Fear of losing him, losing him in just the way she had done in the end, at the hands of her enemies. She couldn’t have saved him, she hadn’t even known he was in danger until.... She shook her head to clear the image. She looked down at her right hand where she still wore the engagement ring. Slowly she stood up and walked over to the dresser and opened a drawer.
“I know you’d have understood Marcus, but I wasn’t able to until now” She slid the photo into the drawer and placed the ring next to it. “Time to move on”