Hindsight

eXalt

"Hey...What are you doing here?" Adam said as he opened the door to his apartment. It was way too early or late for this. He doesn't even know what time it was for that matter. But he was sure it was too early for his friends to show up for no apparent reason.

It was just another day on this earth for him. Another day with nothing on this planet. Another day without Kim. So it was just another day, an ordinary day, another day to get wasted.

"We were on our way to see Erin and thought we'd stop by..." Antonio said eyeing him. Adam can't help but surpass a laughter. The rapist baby get to live and his Kim didn't. Life made so much sense to him.

"You look like shit bro!" Kevin exclaimed.

"Yea, well, caught a cold..." he said, quickly clearing his throat to exaggerate his point. "What can I say...the weather..." he shrugged and walked back into his apartment with Antonio and Kevin following behind.

Both exchanged glances of pure disgust of what had died in this apartment. One might say it was Adam who had died when she did.

"What are you doing man?" Kevin asked, hurt that his buddy was hurting himself this way. He wasn't the only one who had lost someone he loved, he did too. They all did.

"Living." he stated flatly and took a swig of one of his many beers on the coffee table as he slouched on the couch.

"You call this living?" Antonio asked nonchalantly, picking a half eaten chicken wing off the couch and flicked it somewhere across the room.

Suddenly a half naked woman appeared down the hall, from his room and parked herself at the archway. "Adam, baby. I'm cold. Why don't you come warm me up?"

'Why don't you put some clothes on then?' Antonio thought. They were very much angered by his choice of dealing with grief. But everyone has their ways.

"Why don't you go and get started for me, Candice?" he shouted from where he was.

"My name's Kendall." she scoffed.

"K!"

Turning his attention get to his friends, "What were you saying?"

"Hard as you might think, Adam, but drinking and women won't fix anything."

"I don't know what you're talking about. Nothing needs to be fixed." he shrugged.

Antonio got up from the couch with Kevin following behind, looking straight into Adam, "Kim wouldn't be pleased with....this...." he said with disgust before heading out the door.

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"Oh, Kimberly, Kimberly, Kimberly..." he exhaled, looking up at the white ceiling above as he laid on his bed with an aloof Bunny sleeping soundly next to him.

"Well, what else can I say than...I'm sorry?"

After Bunny had told him that his child, his son, his heir was still indeed alive and that his unfit mother couldn't actually get herself to go through the abortion, that in fact he had read the signals wrong, he realised Kim didn't really need to go. He had just wanted to teach Erin a valuable lesson. A lesson that would scar her for life.

A life for a life.

But he had to admit, Kim was a delight, just like Erin. An enjoyment that he wished he could relive again. The fight, the chasing, the resistance and the tightness were all too exhilarating. She was just like Erin.

Shaking his head at the memories, "You cops are wild, one hellava ride...really do know how to please a man." he gave out a wicked laugh.

"Hey, who the hell are you talking to?" Bunny stirred awake, turning towards him before wrapping her arms around his torso.