“Sod off, I know you weren’t showing the baby off.” She snapped at him as she listened to him talk. It wasn’t that Shay didn’t want to believe him, somewhere deep down she really did want to believe it was all in innocent feelings and intent. But, she knew Albus, she watched him promise things would be different and here they were and it seemed exactly the same as before. Add to it that he ’needed’ the pub and it just made things worse. “You shouldn’t need alcohol to relax Albus. That makes you an alcoholic.” And in all terms it did. Drinking socially or for fun once in awhile or that sort of thing was one thing, but if he couldn’t go without it at all because he couldn’t relax? That was unhealthy and he needed help, serious help.
“Alcohol and Coffee are different.” She said in warning to him before shaking her head. At least the caffeine addiction wasn’t going to get him killed by ruining his liver and possibly causing an accident because he was so intoxicated he couldn’t drive his muggle car. “It bothers me that you drink so much and can’t go without it at all. But you don’t seem to have any problems with doing that, what’s bothering me with a match here and there, hmm? It’s not as bad for your health to watch a match here at home, where you can drink something reasonable.”
Her head shook as he just continued saying that he was trying, he wasn’t, she didn’t see him trying. She saw him promising things would be different and yet he wasn’t changing at all. No it wouldn’t happen overnight and she knew that. So she hoped that he found the sofa downstairs quite comfortable because he would be staying there until he could find it in himself to see reason.
“You shouldn’t need to drink like that Albus. It’s NOT healthy.” She snapped at him again. “I don’t know what you mean because you’re being illogical.” She was angry and the more he spoke the angrier she got. “And mixing those with your muggle medications is stupid. Do you understand the sort of reaction you can have on those things? Your body isn’t a toy, it’s not an amusement park and it’s certainly not immortal. You can’t just abuse it and expect it to work properly forever. You have to take care of it.”
He didn’t want her to regret them? The sad part was she didn’t exactly regret them. She regretted that she chose someone who didn’t want to better himself for his health, for hers and for the babies. It wasn’t as if she was asking him not to smoke. He could, he just had to do it outside of the house. That wasn’t too much to ask considering she couldn’t be around it. She was asking him to stop drinking so much because his body would eventually give out on him and get sick and that was the last thing he needed and the last thing she wanted.
Shay tried to snatch her hands back but he held them so she gave up and let him, listening to how he would try harder, but not to walk away because it wasn’t what he wanted. Her head shook at that but she watched as he walked away and then came back and sighed as he said that he was trying.