It hurts like hell.
I didn't know what I should do to stop myself from feeling this pain. His aloofness, his distance, his withdrawal—everything together was hurting me so badly. It was not the first time he had left me like this. I still remember that night so clearly. I was feeling so weak, and he was running in the hospital with me in his arms. I was losing consciousness with every passing second. My eyes were fixed on him. His tears were running down his face as he ran from one ward to another with me in his arms. It was the last time I saw his face before I lost consciousness completely. The next time I opened my eyes, I was all alone in the big room. As soon as I opened my eyes, I felt something was not right with my body. I felt like a stranger. I felt hollow. I felt so empty. My hand immediately moved to my stomach. I sensed my baby was not with me anymore. I knew it somehow. My whole body started to shake in fear. Why am I alone in this room? Why can't I feel my baby? Where is Erick? So many thoughts engulfed me.
“Erick!” I shouted his name, wanting to see him. Only he could answer all my questions. No one came inside the room even when I shouted. My heart drummed so fast in fear. My hand refused to move from my stomach.
“Erick!” I shouted this time at the top of my lungs because I wanted to see him so badly. Why has he left me all alone? A nurse came rushing inside the room with Lily. Lily cried, looking at me, and then engulfed me in her embrace. I broke it and looked at her with teary eyes.
“Where is Erick? Why can't I feel my baby? What's happening here?” I asked because I didn't remember much at this point. I only remember feeling the sharp pain in my abdomen when Erick came back from his part-time work. After that, my memories were in fragments. Lily kept crying, looking at me.
“Tell me where Erick is. What's happening here?” I asked her, feeling so helpless. My breath was coming out of my pants. The nurse tried to calm me down, but I was not ready to listen.
“He will not come back.” Suddenly, a harsh, firm voice answered my question. It made me look at the person. My dad was standing at the door with a stoic look on his face.
"W—what?" I asked with a disbelief look on my face.
“You are lying,” I accused my father and refused to believe him. I know he hates Erick. He was also against our love. I know what he is saying, so I started hating him, but I will never.
“Erick loves me, and he will never leave me or my baby,” I said in a firm tone. He chuckled darkly while walking towards me. It gave me chills.
“it hurts to see my daughter trusting that lying brat more than her father,” he said, and I felt even more anger.
“I will not listen to a word against him,” I said in a firm tone. No one knows him. They don't know the battles he had fought in his life. No one knows what he goes through every day to make me smile. No one.
“You have to because only my truth will break your delusional bubble,” my dad said in a firm tone. I saw how his eyes had turned red.
“Your Eric ran away as soon as he signed the abortion papers,” Dad said with venom in his words. My eyes widen in disbelief. It felt like the air was kicked out of my lungs. This time, I wrapped both my hands around my stomach. I felt even more hollow inside me.
“Stop it,” Lily tried to stop my father, but he showed her his hand. Warning her to not talk in between.
“You are lying. He will never do that. He loves me and our baby. He will never do that,” I said in my trembling voice. He promised to take care of us till our last breath. Refusing once again to believe him. He is lying because he doesn't like him. His nose flared in anger when I said that.
“I knew you would say this,” he said, then pulled the paper from his court.
“See it with your own eyes,” he said, handing me my paper. My hand trembled when I read it with my blurred vision. Those were my abortion papers, and his sign was present there. I recognize it.
“Now you believe it?” my father mocked when he saw tears running down my cheeks.
“I knew that boy was not worthless. He ran away at the very first chance he got. You know what he told me before walking away,” my dad said in the same venom-filled voice. My heart kept thumping loudly, and my eyes refused to look away from the paper where his sign was. I didn't want to hear it.
“Please stop. She is not in the right state of mind.” Lily once again tried to stop my father, but he refused to listen.
“No, she has to listen to it. She knows the truth,” Dad said in a firm tone.
“He said he was getting rid of you, not only you but both of you. He was free of a burden, and now he could live his life freely. He can now breathe freely, and he said, He said in the same tone. I keep sitting there numb. I just didn't know what to do anymore. I had cried all night alone when my baby was aborted. I waited for him all night to come and explain to me why he did this. Why did he choose to kill our baby when he promised to take care of it all his life? I wanted him to tell me my father was wrong. I wanted them to tell me he would never leave me. I waited and waited that night alone in the hospital room for him, but he never showed me his face again. I lost my world that day. He disappeared from my life as if he never existed. I was once again left all alone. I was lost, crying and cribbing in my pain, when suddenly I felt a firm hand around my waist, and I was pulled to his hard yet warm chest. I was so lost. So deeply drowned in my pain that I didn't notice when he walked inside the room and slipped inside the comforts. Suddenly, I felt the comfort I was craving that night. Only his mere touch was enough to pull me out of my painful thoughts. My mind refused to believe it, and I lifted my body to look at him.
He was here.
He is here.
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