"Are you OK?" He questioned, his voice full of concern.
"Yes," came her quiet response to a question she so hated to be asked.
Together in the darkness of their bedroom they lay, another night of dreams and games played in the caverns of their minds.
She rarely slept and he knew it...
So he didn't sleep.
The pregnancy was scaring him as it had once scared her and he was constantly aware of her every action not for fear of what she would do, but for fear of herself.
She was her own worst enemy and he felt like the battleground.
Her belly was expanding and the child within was evolving at a rate he'd not fathomed, he was a doctor and so was she, but when it was so real and so personal it was different...
Because he was so uncertain of her he questioned her about her emotions and her thoughts and her state of mind, not to annoy her but for her own sake.
With every question he asked her she lied more and more...
Because she knew what he was doing and she hated him for it, but she also loved him for it and was scared with him.
This was too new, too real for her comfort.
So she lied for her sake and his because she'd rather he think she was fine and then she could try to convince herself of the same.
As comfortable as she was with this pregnancy at the beginning she realized how truly alarmed she was and how the conversation with Maggie magnified that fear.
Because she was still petrified of being her mother.
She couldn't live with herself if she was to become her mother and she couldn't subject him to her if that was the case.
"Are you sure?"
Within the safety of the darkness she blinked, a tear fell, and she carefully, subtly repositioned her body so she was snuggled against him.
In that moment he realized that in her lies was fear and love and everything she had such a hard time expressing.
"No."
The title and song reference belongs to Dave Matthew's band...
