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"I’m sorry" She starts to cry too, and I feel like a shit

"Come here" I scoot over and she crawls up onto the bed withto do?"

"Take so violently ill You’re not thinking straight Take so my hair and I as, and it’s a text fros, baby Will call you tonight Love you

"Fucker" I throw the phone down and don’t bother to answer, but the floodgates open to more tears About five minutes later there’s another text

I haven’t heard from you all day I miss you You okay?

"Nat, you have to talk to hi

A few minutes later Dr Anderson returns with o, Natalie Good luck"

I’ to need it

Jules drives us to the pharmacy and then hoet hoo up to my room and crawl onto the bed, curl into a ball and weep like I haven’t sinceapart, and essentially, it is I can’t be with Luke He’ll e it He had his hands on that woed to her, and he lied to me when he told me he never spoke to his former fiancé

I press my hand to my belly Oh, God, and what auess I can do that, I don’t see a choice But the thought of it tears

and

the

best

relationship I’ve ever had, the loss of the one person I sawthe rest of my life with

"Wake up, Nat" I startle awake at Luke’s voice

"What are you doing here?" His eyes are worried and he’s leaning over me, his face pale

"I couldn’t reach you all day and I orried so I came home Why didn’t you tell me you were sick?"

"Who told you I’rasp and he frowns, confused

"Jules said you’d been sick today and she took you to the ER Baby, you don’t look very good"

"Yeah, I’o home" I wrap my arms around myself and I just can’t look hi?"

"I just don’t feel good"

"Bullshit, look at ?" His eyes are on my left hand

"In er?" His voice is rising and he’s starting to look desperate, and I’oing to go well

"Luke, I think you should go ho"

I can’t stop the tears as they fall down my face Luke reaches for me, but I pull back