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"For Christ’s sake, Mol! How can you be tired? You’ve slept for days, done nothing for days! I understand you’ve had surgery, but the doctors said you should be feeling a lot better by now You’re ing, Shakespeare You need to snap the hell out of it! I’ve tried, been trying to be patient, but enough is enough! I’ve lost a baby too, not just you, but you shut er to you I was the daddy, for fk’s sake! I can’t do it alone I have toothe team to the championship, the hopes of an entire state on my head I need you to help me, Mol, not to drown in your own fkin’too!"

Her lifeless eyes regarded , and pure desperation took hold as I pounded to the bed, all gentleness gone I pressed h, and hoe usually liked it But her lips didn’tcorpse

I was scared

When I saw her on the floor, covered in blood at my folks’ place, I’d been scared When I knew I had to tell her our baby had died, I was scared, but the fear of the girl I loved, the girl who saved ood had me almost insane with panic

"For fk’s sake! Please Please You’re scaring the shit outtathat’s happened" I pleaded But she turned away, not wanting to listen… and it felt like I was dying a slow and painful death

"You can’t even bear to look at me, can you?"

Her back stiffened, she whipped to faceher features, and she screa at you! Tell me, Rome, ould like me to deal with exactly? The fact that yourbaby?"

And there it was… My baby She no longer saw us together… We were no longer in this together

"Our baby, and don’t you ever forget that I ith you all the way until the end… still a to pull you out of hell!"

But there was nothing, not even a flicker of understanding in her eyes She’d given up on us, and in that in’ year

"You knohat? Fuck this! I’m out!"

I attended the dinner as requested and hours later found one and nowhere to be found Sitting in her eiven up

She’d left me She’d run