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Bianca put the last nail in the coffin when she confessed
her next secret. “He asked me to come with him. He said…
he wanted to be there for the rest of my pregnancy and
when I give birth.”
“What about… his exams?”
“He dropped out for the rest of the academic year.”
My emotions throttled me, and barb wires twisted
around my lungs. I couldn’t… breathe. Oh God. This was
hell. Pure, absolute hell.
How… how did it come to this?
Oh, right. I left him.
And now he was leaving, going far away, and out of my
reach. My lungs caved in, my stomach dropped… and the
butterflies? They just died. The emptiness left a hollow
ache inside of me. The silence that came with the
aftermath; it was louder than any sound.
I swallowed back a cry and turned away from Bianca.
“I’m sorry,” she whispered. I heard her feet shuffling
away. The door opened, the bell pinged again, cold air
washed inside the empty restaurant, and then she was
gone. As if she was never here.
As if she hadn’t just trampled over my already broken,
bleeding heart.
This had been my doing; yet, it still fucking hurt.
It hadn’t been an easy decision, but this was what I
wanted for Maddox.
For him to grow up, for him to accept responsibility…
For this unborn baby to have a decent father.
I walked away for Maddox…
And, as much as it pained me, I didn’t regret it.