Flashback
"I'm Done."
Those were the last words she heard from her husband as he left her for another. She couldn't move. She couldn't breathe. Her knees buckled and she fell to the ground, sobbing. She was alone. He left her, even after she told him she was pregnant. It was as if he didn't care about them at all.
Maybe he didn't care. Maybe he never loved her. Maybe it was just lust. That's why he married her. He never loved her. He never cared. And then it was as if something snapped inside her.
She stood up and rushed upstairs. She grabbed her suitcase and started to pack all her clothes. She was zipping up one of her bags, when her eyes landed on the photo frame on their night stand. Their wedding photo. She looked at it in disgust.
Her smile was genuine. She was so happy. And then she looked over to Theo. He was smiling too. But it was probably fake. Acting his way through the wedding. Acting as if he was happy with his married life with her. Maybe even laughing at her in his head, because she was a fool to believe his lies. She gripped the frame, and ended up throwing it across the room.
Adeline stormed out of the room and into the living room. Adeline had decorated it to where they had a wall of photos. Full of "happy" memories the 2 shared with each other and their friends/family. She looked at each photo and couldn't help but feel her heart breaking piece by piece. She walked up to the wall and started taking off each photo from their frame. She piled them on the couch, and when she was done she headed outside.
In their backyard was a huge fire pit. She tossed all the photos into the pit and walked back inside to get some matches. Without hesitation she struck the match and dropped the fire into the mountain of pictures. Destroying years worth of memories.But to her, now they were years worth of lies.
She starred at the photos as they burned, and then eventually went inside. She grabbed her suitcases and was ready to leave. Only to freeze at the sight of something white. She walked over to her side of the closet and pulled out her pearl white wedding dress. It was a beautiful dress. Tears started to form in her eyes once again.
She really thought he was the one. She really thought Theo was the man she was going to spend the rest of her life with. But she was wrong. Fate had broken her once again. First her parents, then her best friend, and now Theo. Every single person who had a special place in her heart left her. Now they are the ones for her broken heart. A heart broken beyond repair.
Adeline mustered up the courage and dragged the dress, with her luggage, down the stairs and to the backyard. She was hesitant at first, but when her eyes spotted the manila folder still lying on the table she made her decision.
She tossed the dress into the fire, and threw her wedding ring in as well.
Adeline walked back inside, grabbed a pen, and signed the divorce papers. She grabbed her suitcase, and left the house. Not bothering to look back. Not bothering to look back at the house that homed nothing but lies and deception.
She got into her car and sighed. This was it. She was leaving. And never coming back. She then placed her hand on her stomach and a faint smile appeared on her face.
"It's you and me against the world, little buddy."
***
Theo looked over at Adeline as she played with her fingers. She always did that when she was nervous.
"What happened?" Theo asked.
Adeline was staring at the ground, and cleared her throat.
"Aftet you left.. I.. I went to live with a classmate. And for a while everything got better. Then, I um.. I got news about being able to shadow a well-known peds surgeon for 3 months. And without a doubt I took it. So I traveled to Seattle. I was 4 months in, and I was finishing up my shadowing. I was coming home from an appointment. It was raining.. and.." she then couldn't talk.
Her emotions were all over the place when she talked about this specific event.
"I should have stayed at the office for a couple of hours, but I was so tired. I wasn't feeling so well, and all I wanted to do was just go to bed."
He saw saw how Adeline was trying her best to not cry. To not break in front of him.
"I was driving home, and it was a red light. The car from behind hit me, pushed my car to oncoming traffic.." she finished.
**
Adeline woke up to the sound of an annoying beeping sound.
She looked around, and saw the familiar room. A recovery room after surgery. Then, everything came back. The red light. The driver from behind. The truck hitting her from the side.
She was beyond shocked seeing that she was able to survive a crash that bad. Then, her eyes widened. Her hands flew to her stomach. She looked around, and there was no fetal monitor. Her stomach was flat.
"Where's my baby?" Adeline whispered, tears falling down her face.
Soon enough, a doctor came into her room with a saddened face.
"Where's my baby? Give me my baby!" She begged.
The doctor shook her head, and gently took grasp of Adeline's hand.
"I'm sorry. The damage was too extensive. We couldn't save him."
"Him? It was a boy? I was having a boy?" She cried, breaking down.
The doctor nodded her head, and sat down next to Adeline.
"Where is he?" She asked her doctor.
"He's on his way to the morgue."
Adeline squeezed her doctors hand.
"Please. Let me see him.. please let me say goodbye."
The doctor was hesitant, but eventually nodded her head. She helped Adeline into a wheelchair, and took her to the morgue.
"Are you sure?" Her doctor asked, wanting to make sure Adeline was ready for this.
She nodded her head, and the doctor pushed her into a room. There, wrapped in a bundle of blankets was her son. Her doctor placed him in Adeline's arms.
Adeline broke into a faint smile. He had her black hair and her fair skin. She hugged him close to her body.
"My baby boy..mommy loves you so much." She whispered as she rocked him back and forth.
"Mommy is so sorry she couldn't protect you. I'm so sorry." She cried, her body shaking.
The doctor gently placed a hand on her shoulder, signaling that it was time to let go. Adeline nodded her head, as she hugged her baby closer to her body. She looked down and gently wiped off her tears from his face.
"Goodbye my baby.." She whispered.
"I love you so much." She then placed a gentle kiss on his chubby cheek and handed her baby to the doctor who gave it to the person in charge of the morgue.
As the doctor left to hand off her son Adeline was left in the room alone. Once the door closed she couldn't help but let out a sob that would send a shiver down the spine of any person.
The one person who she knew would not break her heart. The one person she knew she would always love unconditionally was taken away from her. Why was fate so cruel to her?
And once again, she was left alone.
***
"I got to say goodbye." Adeline admitted, a faint smile on her face.
"He was so small. He had the cutest nose, and he had my hair.."
Theo didn't realize it but tears were falling down his face. He didn't know what to say. He should have been there for her, but instead he was too busy fooling around with another woman.
He took the risk of standing up from where he was sitting and walking up to Adeline, who was silently crying. Theo wrapped his arms around her and engulfed her into his warm embrace.
He felt how she stiffened, unsure of what to do of his actions. Adeline wanted to push him away and to slap him senseless, but she couldn't. At this moment, she needed to be with someone right now. Whenever the topic of her son is brought up, she just turns into a wreck. Then, she did something that Theo didn't expect. She slowly wrapped her arms around him and rested her head on his chest. Accepting his embrace.
The 2 stood there, together. As they mourned over the death of their child. Their son.
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This part isn't edited. So excuse the grammar errors, etc. :/