it ends with us ¹ DISCONTINUED

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  ADAM TOOK A SHOWER FIRST, AND AS SOON AS HE GOT OUT, Rue jumped in. She locked the door behind her, something she never did the time she has never done the time she has been with Adam. She opened the cabinet doors and reached behind her tampon box, grabbing the pregnancy test that she had bought the day before. As soon as she thought she was pregnant, it felt like she had failed herself. Like all she has done to try and protect herself was for nothing. She sat there with tears running down her cheeks, her head lowered and her voice barley above a whisper. And there wasn't anything anyone could tell her to take her fear away.

The last thing she needs right now is the stress of carrying part of that man inside of her. Something that would tie her to him for the rest of her life.

She inhales slowly as she stares down at the test. It's the kind that doesn't show a line. It actually displays tue words, 'pregnant' or 'not pregnant.'"

She waits, her hands taking through her hair, her feet pacing the small bathroom. She is facing the other direction when the timer on her phone chimes, indicating the wait time is up.

She blows out a calming breath, and when she turns around and see the word pregnant, she makes a fist, prepared to punch the wall. The door. Anything. Instead she punches the air and curses under her breath.

"I don't know if I can do it."

RUE TRIES TO AVOID GETTING HER HAIR WET AS SHE RINSES OFF, because they are already running late. She grabs her razor and presses it under her arm when she hears a crash. She pauses. "Adam?" Nothing. She finishes shaving and then washes the soap off. Another crash. "What is the world is he doing?" She says to herself. She turns off the water and grabs a towel, running it over herself. "Adam!"

The nightstand by their bed is tipped over. She moves to the living room and sees him sitting on the edge of the couch, his head in one of his hands. He's looking down at something in his other hand.

"What are you doing?"

He looks up at her and she doesn't recognise his expression. Rue is confused by what's happening.

"Adam, you're scaring me. What's wrong?"

He holds up her phone and just looks at her like she should know what's happening. When she shakes her in confusion. He holds up a picture, along with a piece of paper. "Funny thing," he says, setting her phone on the coffee shop she in front of him. "I dropped your phone by accident. the cover pops off. I find this number and picture hidden in the back of it."

Oh, god.

No, no, no.

He crumbles them in his fist. "I thought, 'huh. That's weird. Rue doesn't hide things from me.'" He stands up and picks up her phone. "So I called it." He tightens his fist around the phone.

"He's lucky I got his fucking voice mail." He chucks her phone clear across the room and it crashes against the wall, shattering to the floor.

There's a three second pause where she thinks this could go one of two ways.

He's going to leave her.

Or he's going to hurt her.

He runs a hand through his hair and walks straight to the door.

He leaves.

"Adam!" Rue tells.

She opens the door and runs after him. He's taking the stairs two at a time. And she finally reaches him when he's at the landing of the third floor. She shoves herself in front of him and grabs his jumper in her fist. "Adam, please. Let me explain."

He grabs her wrist and pushes her away from him.

Okay, here is a little look into Rues past with Adam. I've decided that I'm going to do a lot of chapters like this, so In the future you understand.

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