Brothers
You stay at the barbeque with a few other people, cooking the food and wondering what's going on over there. A few minutes later you find out when someone comes to get you.
It's Gwen. She fell while carrying the baby. She managed to twist as she fell so that nothing happened to little Noah, but when she hit the ground her head bounced off of a rock.
They tell you an ambulance is on the way and you crouch down beside her looking into her distant eyes as blood pours out of her skull.
Somewhere behind you your baby is crying, but you maintain your focus on Gwen who lay in a crumpled mess breathing shallow.
Paramedics soon arrive, a stretcher between them. They get her on the stretcher and you get in the back of the ambulance with them; a friend keeping your baby while you accompany your girlfriend.
She dies on the way there.
Her funeral is an appropriately cold and rainy one, the sky dark with clouds. The rain helps to hide your tears.
Mikey shows up with Kenny but your parents do not. They've only seen Noah twice since he was born and only on occassions where you visited them.
Mikey offers condolences with red eyes, though not red from tears. Kenny smiles weakly.
Noah doesn't understand anything that is happening, but he cries through the entire ceremony. You cry right along with him.
Your apartment is empty now. Just you and the baby. And Noah needs a lot of care. Taking care of him helps to take some of the sting away, helps you focus on something other than the emptiness that you are left with.
Sometimes late at night you still wake up thinking that she'll be beside you in bed. She smelled of lilacs you recall.
Years go by and the pain dulls a little. Noah begins talking and walking.
One day a man in a suit comes to your place of employment and announces that they will be shutting the location down in 90 days. There is a stunned silence in his wake.
People curse, people cry, some quit on the spot and others vow to milk the next few weeks for all they can.
Eventually the last few days are upon you. You find out that you are eligible for six months of unemployment pay, but they are only offering half of your current wage. Perhaps it would be wiser to start looking for a job?
It's Gwen. She fell while carrying the baby. She managed to twist as she fell so that nothing happened to little Noah, but when she hit the ground her head bounced off of a rock.
They tell you an ambulance is on the way and you crouch down beside her looking into her distant eyes as blood pours out of her skull.
Somewhere behind you your baby is crying, but you maintain your focus on Gwen who lay in a crumpled mess breathing shallow.
Paramedics soon arrive, a stretcher between them. They get her on the stretcher and you get in the back of the ambulance with them; a friend keeping your baby while you accompany your girlfriend.
She dies on the way there.
Her funeral is an appropriately cold and rainy one, the sky dark with clouds. The rain helps to hide your tears.
Mikey shows up with Kenny but your parents do not. They've only seen Noah twice since he was born and only on occassions where you visited them.
Mikey offers condolences with red eyes, though not red from tears. Kenny smiles weakly.
Noah doesn't understand anything that is happening, but he cries through the entire ceremony. You cry right along with him.
Your apartment is empty now. Just you and the baby. And Noah needs a lot of care. Taking care of him helps to take some of the sting away, helps you focus on something other than the emptiness that you are left with.
Sometimes late at night you still wake up thinking that she'll be beside you in bed. She smelled of lilacs you recall.
Years go by and the pain dulls a little. Noah begins talking and walking.
One day a man in a suit comes to your place of employment and announces that they will be shutting the location down in 90 days. There is a stunned silence in his wake.
People curse, people cry, some quit on the spot and others vow to milk the next few weeks for all they can.
Eventually the last few days are upon you. You find out that you are eligible for six months of unemployment pay, but they are only offering half of your current wage. Perhaps it would be wiser to start looking for a job?