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Our lives end before we have a child, and we seem to follow the exact same steps every time.
Omg does this happn becuse she diesin childbirth
And I’m scared to learn what it is, because I’m pretty sure it was my fault.
Oh fuck did s kil ryn
“Well, my mother’s still alive and they never found your father’s mother after she disappeared, so I assume that means they didn’t find a ring either.” There’s a chill at the base of my spine. My grandmother died long before I was born, when my dad was small. But I never heard she’d disappeared. “I thought she drowned.” “No one ever knew for sure. They never found a body… Everyone’s best guess is that she drowned in the river.”
“There are rules,” he says. “I don’t understand them, but there are rules about who you tell. She never even told me until she was pregnant—said we had to share a blood relative.”
Which means my grandfather and I have had this conversation before.
“When the twins first visited, they didn’t know me. Which meant I’d died when they were born. And I was fine with that. But Quinn…” She heaves a deep sigh. “After Ryan, after you let your spark fade…they came back. And now they don’t know you.”
“If you refuse to jump,” she says, “I will make the choice for you.” My stomach is bottoming out. I already know exactly what she’s going to do. “No.” “I’m sorry,” she says. “But if you’d never met Nick, none of this would have happened.” I reach desperately for the only threat in my power. “If you do this, I’ll never forgive you.” “Of course you will,” she says gently. “You’re not even going to remember it happened.”
“Yes,” I whisper. “In this lifetime and all the other ones, I will only want you.”
“I’m not walking my pregnant fiancée through a fucking forest in the middle of nowhere in search of a beach. Didn’t you ever watch Lost? Do you how much awful shit can live in a forest?”
