Seth, A
Story–5
when Seth turned his face towards me.
Why do you think you’re not wrth:
1 giggled.
What else could I do? Sob? No, that wasn’t going to happen. So I giggled and gave him a crooked smile. “Help!” I shouted in a sing- song voice that was only mildly on key. “I need somebody, help! Not just anybody Seth leaned forward and pushed his lips against mine silencing me. He kept his eyes open and he watched me, his warm lips still,
when he pulled away, my burst of inappropriate humor had left me and I was so close to breaking down that I needed something t stop me. I bit down hard on my lip, letting out a tiny gasp at the pale and the sudden burst of copper tainting my mouth.
“Why Cassie?
I shrugged as casually as I could. I don’t know, but this isn’t about be right now. It’s about-
to
“It’s about what happened last night and how I ran like a scared little boy. The idea of having something so amazing torn away from me because of death was too much,” Seth said, his volée taking on a hardened, determined tone,
“Death? What death? Did someone die? I mean, I know you lost your sister when you were fifteen and I understand a little better how close you were to her, but-*
“I never told you how she died.”
I swallowed the lump forming in my throat. “H–how did she die?”
“Well, her boyfriend was a jackass, the type that says ‘if you love me you’ll fuck me. And she did love him, which was beyond me. It was the only time I ever questioned her judgment. When he found out he got her pregnant and that she wanted it–it didn’t matter that, as devout Catholics, my father wouldn’t have let her have an abortion anyway–he left. Maddie still wanted that baby something fierce. She was happy even after he left her. I think she was using the pain to be stronger. And she was so strong! My father was overjoyed at the prospects of having a grandchild and he started being around a lot more. We almost felt like a real family there for a while,”
Frowning. It
pulled away from Seth, placing a hand over his chest. “Seth, how did she die?”
He took a deep breath. “She bled to death.”
gasped as another shootin meet the same fate…
sting crossed my mind. It was how his mother had been taken from him, but to have his pregnant sister
ei took another shaking bath. She was sixth months in and stressed beyond belief… she was ashamed that her fourteen–year- old brother was going to Lamure classes with her, that it was her father taking her baby clothes shopping, that it was Grant who built a new wing onto the lease just for the baby. She remained strong on the outside, but on the inside… You know, she didn’t sent to know the ses but Father knew it would be a boy. He said the only miracle had ever witnessed was when Mom gave birth He said a man is only graced with one inache in life and the male gene is strong in my family. Well, he was right. It was a
Seth licked bas lips and turned his head, making rye contact with molare be continued. She went to premature labot, in my birthday of all diņa. There we sduit and could make her own choices. She chose the baby, but with the hectic commotion–I mean, my father was the head of a life–threatening complication and they gave her a choice. Father tried to intervene, but she was an this power–hungry Mafia he had people all over scaming at the borbital staff. He was threatening the doctor himself. So I guess mistukes were made–soqueone missed that the baby’s heart had stored bealling. By the time they realized it, it was too Inte. Maddie had lost too much blood. She died trying to give life to a de haby Inside of her.
V for Virgin!
