It was 11:17 on a Tuesday night; Mike had finally found his rest of his grandmother's photo albums. He had been feeling a little better. He smiled as he flipped through the book. He then wandered into the kitchen and grabbed a beer then settled back onto the couch. The apartment door opening got his attention.
"Hey Rachel, I'm in here. I found one of Grammys last picture of photo albums" he called out with a sort of sadness in his voice. One that Rachel knew too well. She walked into the living room and placed her beer next to his on the coffee table.
"Hey are you okay?" she asked placing a hand on his knee and giving it a squeeze."
Yeah, it was the last box that I haven't looked through yet."
Well, let me get us more beer and we can look at your awkward teen years together" she smiled at him. He gave her smirk in return.
"Hey I was a good looking nerd I'll have you know.
Rachel laughed as she went into the kitchen, grabbed two more beers and returned back into the living room.
She and mike had broken up 6 months ago but remained very close. She watched Mike lift an old album onto his lap. She didn't think either one of hem had seen this one yet. She watched as he started flipping through the pages, when an envelope fell out of the book. Mike picked it up and pulled out the contents of it. There was an older picture with a very young woman holding a baby in a hospital. Mike smiled at it then flipped it over and his world came to a screeching halt.
Nina Williams 1978 at sisters Hospital with baby girl 8pds 11oz willow Williams. Mike nearly dropped the photo.
Rachel noticed Mike's hand trembling as it held onto the photo, his eyes seemed to have glazed over. She tried to pull the photo out of his hand, but he tightened his gripe on it.
"Mike" Rachel tried again, this time he blinked and looked at Rachel, and then he released the gripe on the picture. She watched as Mike, picked up his beer and chugged it, the whole thing, then he picked up Rachel's beer and did the same thing.
Rachel, frowned as Mike sucked down her other beer as well. She looked at the photo and then flipped it over and a gasp escaped her lips. Mike turned around and looked at her. His skins tone now a pasty cream shade.
His eyes were the bluest she had ever seen and then he began to tremble slightly. Rachel placed the picture back on the coffee table and picked up the rest of the papers and skimmed over them. Mike had backed away from the coffee table and he was in shock. Rachel did the only thing she could have thought of, she pulled out her cell phone and called Harvey. She was grateful it had gone to voicemail.
"Harvey, its Rachel. I know it is late but Mike seems to have come down with something and he looks awful , he hasn't left the bathroom in an hour so he won't be in tomorrow ." She hung up the phone and turned her attention back to her friend.
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