"WHAT!" Elizabeth gasped giving Destiny a cup of water as she told her about how Sammy wanted to take a break. "Are you serious right now?!" She asked in disbelief, "Yeah," Destiny said sighing. "what did you do to make him think that?" Elizabeth asked, Destiny looked away and decided to avoid the question. "Des!" Elizabeth said looking at her suspiciously, "So I found out I was pregnant last week and he begged me to keep it but I didn't want to keep it so I aborted it!" She blurted out, "YOU WHAT!" Elizabeth shouted in disbelief, "You killed an unborn child!" She gasped, "Look I never really wanted kids so I wasn't just going to break my rule for him." She said to avoid eye contact.
"Breaking your rule!" Elizabeth shouted, "Sammy loves you for god's sake, and you knew what he wanted the most and you took it away from him!" She said angrily, "THIS IS UNBELIEVABLE!" Elizabeth shouted, "YOU KILLED A BABY JUST TO KEEP YOUR RULE OF NOT HAVING CHILDREN?!" She shouted, "I love you Destiny but what you did is unforgivable. What you did broke Sammy's heart and I don't think that is something he'll ever get over." She said in a worried tone, "Destiny what you did was wrong, and maybe if you had talked to me before making such a decision I could have helped you." She said sadly.
"Destiny..." Elizabeth pleaded with her to stop talking, "You killed an innocent baby for your selfish reasons, it's not fair to Sammy, You're just pushing him farther away. He doesn't deserve this right now." Elizabeth said sadly, "He loves you more than anything and you just pushed him away because you were being selfish! You hurt his feelings and now you are hurting him even more by denying his forgiveness." Elizabeth said tearfully, "Don't you see? You hurt him because you thought you had to punish yourself for taking away what meant the
most to him, but you shouldn't have done that! Do you know what you've done to him?" She asked, Destiny remained silent and looked away.
Elizabeth grabbed Destiny's hands and pulled them towards herself. She began to cry silently while Destiny stared at the ground. "Destiny, will you please tell me why you did this to him." She asked softly. "Why did you do this to him?" Elizabeth asked again, Destiny looked up and then back down. "I'm sorry Elizabeth, I never meant to hurt anyone I just never thought I'd ever be in this situation.
I never thought I'd have to deal with something like this. It just happened so suddenly and all I could think about was ending it. The only person I cared about breaking up with me was Sammy. I felt like I had to do it to save us both from a lifetime of pain, but I realized that wasn't the right thing to do. I never meant to hurt him, I am so sorry." Destiny said in a soft voice.
A few weeks later at the hospital Elizabeth is in her office working until there was a knock at the door. "Come in." She said, not looking up from her computer screen. The door opened and Josh walked into the room. "I hope you don't mind me stopping by," he started as he sat down across from her desk, Elizabeth looked at him confused, "What are you doing here?" She asked, he smiled and showed her the huge scratch on his elbow. "Oh my god, what happened to your arm?" She asked worried, "practice," he replied, "You need to get that treated right now!" She said getting up from her table and getting the first aid kit.
He watched her with amusement while she examined the wound. He knew she'd be pissed when she found out it wasn't a practice injury but he didn't say anything. As soon as she finished, she wrapped his arm with some gauze and bandages. "Are you going to tell me how this happened?" She asked with concern, "Just practice," he replied evasively. When she was done wrapping his arm she put the first aid kit back and went back to her chair, and then pulled out her phone and sent a quick text message.
Elizabeth smiled as she got a text back. Josh looked at her curious and then asked, "Who's got you smiling like that?" Elizabeth looked at him smiling and said, "This one guy I just started to see, we're going out for dinner tonight." She smiled. Josh's smile turned up Side down, he didn't look very happy when she told him that. He wasn't sure if he should ask her or not but he wanted to know who the guy was. Elizabeth saw him staring at her and asked, "Are you okay?"
Josh looked away from her and replied, "Yeah, sorry about earlier, I mean..." he stopped talking because he didn't want to seem jealous. Maybe was right all along, Elizabeth has moved from him she wasn't even thinking about him not even the slightest bit. Inside he wanted to feel happy for her but he couldn't get himself to feel happy, he didn't want to see her show her pretty smile to someone else. He was feeling so many different emotions, he didn't know what to do. He sighed and tried to ignore everything. "Hey, you're going out with that guy? Sounds like fun," he said trying to change the subject, Elizabeth nodded smiling, and said, "Yeah, it's going to be nice"
He knew he couldn't change her mind so he just decided to let it go and die inside. Josh did want to see her again, maybe they can hang out together, but he also felt jealous, why couldn't he just stop being jealous and accept the fact that she doesn't love him anymore? Why does he have to keep feeling like he needs her every single day? It was eating him alive.
TO BE CONTINUED