Cress, The Lost Chapters
Chapter i
A woman screamed. It felt like it shook the whole building. Dimitri Erland knew who it was, his wife was having their first child. Luna hospital room 318 was bright with lights but there were no mirrors because Lunars had glamour and when they looked at themselves in mirrors they saw who they truely were. Dimitri felt a sharp pain in his left hand where his wife clutched his hand, he winced. His wife, Natalie, had sweat dripping off of her forhead and neck, her face was wrinkled with pain. "UggggGGGGH!" Natalie sat back with relief, she didn't let go of Dimitri's hand.
"It's a shell." The docter anounced with disgust and handed it to a nurse to be cleaned up. He didn't even show the baby to us, Dimitri thought, sadly.
Natalie grunted beside Dimitri."Get it out of here. I don't even want to look at it." Natalie turned away from the docter and dismissed the little bundle with a wave of her hand."Send it to Queen Levana's thaumatergh." The doctor nodded in agreement and told the nurse to call a gaurd to escort the newborn to Mistress Sybil. The nurse looked upsset but called a gaurd that was standing outside the door of 318 and took the bundle away.
"Crescent." Was all Dimitri said and his wife snapped her head towards him.
"It will never be our Crescent. It will never be ours. It's a shell, it doesn't deserve anything." She looked deep into his glassy eyes."I'm not going to shelter a shell in my home and call the thing my family. Never." Her face was red with anger."I can't believe you feel sorry for it. That so called baby was just an accident we can try again."
"With other people." Dimitri said quietly to the white tiled floor.
Natalie looked stunned, gapping."Fine. Ok, divorcing you is on my to-do list." With that, she sat up, grunting with pain but managed to get up and walk out of the room.
Chapter ii
Dimitri couldn't stop thinking about the small newborn girl being cast away like a water bottle in a field of grass nobody cares enough to pick up. Dimitri sighed. "I'm so sorry my little Crescent." A tear coursed down his not-yet-wrinkly cheek. His body shook as he let the tears flow. How could Natalie hate such a beautiful baby girl that they had made and throw it out? Dimitri asked himself. He had only that one question swimming around in his head and it wouldn't let him sleep.
Dimitri got out of his warm bed and plugged in his silver coffee maker. His hair askew in odd angles, he yawned and opened his fridge. The bright light startling him, he grabbed his hazel nut coffee creamer and set it onto the counter and opened a dark tan painted cupboard and picked out a shiny, silver coffee mug and poored hot coffee and creamer into it and took a big gulp. He exhaled with satisfaction of a good cup of coffee.
Dimitri grabs his lab coat and strides out the door after he finishes his coffee in two gulps.
. . .
Natalie was staying at Miranda's, one of her really good friends, because she refused to even go near Dimitri after what he said and what he made her push out of her.
"Do you want coffee? I have hazel nut creamer." Miranda is peaking around the doorway and waving a yellow jug with a picture of hazel nuts and a vanilla flower.
"You know who else loved coffee creamer? And still does?" Natalie spits out the words like venom. She realizes that she scared her friend with her complete hatred for her husband. "I'm sorry. I just don't want to drink something he's probably drinking right now, or ever." Natalie apologizes.
"It's ok. You just startled me. You guys seemed so in love and then it just shut off like there was a secret power button. What happened? You can tell me." Miranda walks through the doorway and slides next to her friend and drapes an arm around her. "Please tell me."
"He gave me a shell. I said we could try again after I sent the dang thing away and he felt sorry for it. Can you believe him. He looked undoubtedly saddened and he said we should try again." Miranda perked up. "With other people." Miranda's happieness left her face just as quickly as it had appeared. "I know. I told him that we can divorce, and that it was on my To-Do list and I walked out of the room. It was his fault he gave me a shell, that retched, ugly thing was sent to Mistress Sybil. Thank God the doctor didn't show it to me. I would have thrown up." Natalie made and exaggerated gagging noise.
"I'm sorry, I guess he decided to show his true colors. This is really hard. I'm sorry you have to go through this." Miranda hugged Natalie, tightly.
"I'll just have plain coffee." Natalie smiles a big, goofy smile at Miranda and they both laugh and get out of the bed and eat a breakfast of scrambled eggs, blueberry waffles, bacon, and wine. (They were out of coffee.)