But how is this possible? I didn't have—
A memory comes to me. Me and Caleb, on the hospital bed. Oh, no. Oh, God. Oh, no.
But I didn't take a test. So I don't know for certain.
I jump up out of the chair, and run out of the hospital. I have to get a test. I have to.
I run to the CVS right across the street. I look around until I finally find a pregnancy test. I buy it at the cash register as quickly as possible, and rush out of CVS. I run back to the hospital and to the restroom.
I read the directions and take the test. I wait for about ten minutes. It comes back positive.
I'm pregnant.
I run back to Caleb's room and sit down in the chair next to Caleb, holding his hand. "Caleb," I say. "Please wake up. I need to... tell you something."
The machine next to his bed answers with a beep beep beep. I let out another sob. "Please, Caleb. Please. I–I'm pregnant," I choke out. It's so hard, too hard, to say those words.
The machine answers with one, monotone beeeeeeeep going on forever. I sob.
I realize now why I had those nightmares about Caleb when I first met him. I was afraid. I was afraid that Caleb would die. And now he has.
He's dead. Caleb is dead.
The last person I love is dead.
I utter the last word that I want to say. "Goodbye."
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Never Say Goodbye
عاطفيةEmma Starling is walking to school one day when the unimaginable happens: she almost gets hit by a car. Almost. Almost, if not for Caleb Hayes, an unbelievably attractive teenager who has loved Emma since she was young. Caleb saves Emma, and she is...
