"Perhaps that's become our new normal," Jake suggested.
"Well, at least it's nothing that you cannot fix," Hazel said before a momentary period in which static came and interrupted their call.
It was visiting hour but he had been banished from the hospital. The issue between them was a big deal and he felt justified for having seen it in its proper light. But the light was dark and his inquisition had cast a shadow upon her.
She too felt justified because she was a victim in all of it. He thought an abortion was the best way to go because she was harboring the seed of the brute, that invested some sleepless, inside her. However, she saw it differently. When the thought of abortion crossed her mind, she despised it because it felt as if she would be throwing a part of herself away. That, she was not prepared to do.
