The Good in Goodbye

Never have i ever experienced such a wide range of emotions at the same time. Focusing my sight on the white ceiling of the operation theatre, I think about my life.

Anyone can promise forever, but only a few can keep that promise. Sadly for me, Jake was not among the few. He was a part of the majority. Responsibility is also something that not everyone can take. Jake couldn't too.

Jake and I started dating since sophomore year in college. The head cheerleader and the football captain, a typical love story isn't it? I was like a moth drawn to a flame. A flame that was Jake. But where's the flame now? It's out. Only a bit of ash is left over.

Mom and dad had warned me about him. Mom had said, "Martha, that boy gives me bad vibes, don't get too involved with him." I was always pretty obedient but as the saying goes 'love is blind' ; I too was blind to all of his faults that others could see.

Jake had always been good to me. He told me everything about himself, don't know how much of it was false or true. I had never doubted him. How could I? He never did something, atleast not in front of me, that would make me doubt him. On the day of our graduation, he asked me to move in with him. The happiness that I had felt that day is beyond words.

When I had told my parents about this, they were furious and forbade me from staying with him. I was again warned about the bad vibes. But I had fought with my parents and left. That was the right thing to do. Or so I thought.

Me and Jake in our own apartment, lived a perfect life. Until that day.

I had been vomiting after a month of moving in with him. I thought of it as a gastric problem and brushed it aside until I couldn't anymore and went to a doctor. I was told that it wasn't any gastric problem, it was because I was 2 weeks pregnant.

Overjoyed, I had planned a nice romantic dinner to break the news to him and celebrate. When he came back from work, I slowly broke the news to him. I had mistook the dark look on his face that day as shock. He had replied very calmly, " Great, welcome to the new member of our family" and kissed me.

The next morning, I could not find Jake anywhere in the house. It was a Sunday morning, so he could not have gone to work. But then I found a note under his pillow. It said:

"I cannot take responsibility. I'm sorry.
I hope that you will move on with your life with our
kid and a partner who is not a coward like
me. Let's never meet again.
Love you."

- Jake

My thoughts got interrupted when the door of the OT opened. I felt something being injected in my arm, then everything went black.

•__________•_________•

I woke up to the sound of a baby crying. But honestly, at that moment, it sounded like music to my years. As I held my sleeping son in my arms, I was thankful to Jake. He may have broken my heart, disabled me to love someone as freely as before, but this beautiful farewell gift that he gave me in the form of a precious human is enough to make me forget all pain and sadness.

Our time together was joyful, Jake. Farewells are hardly happy. But thanks to our son you left me with, he made our farewell happy.

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*a.n.*

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