Part 3 - Guilt
9:00 AM

The alarm rang and Jude leaned over the bed to turn it off.

She hadn't even slept. When she returned home the night before, she took a long shower then climbed into bed and just stared at the ceiling. Watching as the sky cast different colors across the wall.Tommy called.
Dozens of times but Jude couldn't bear to talk to him. He didn't even know she was pregnant. She was on her way over to his apartment to tell him when she saw them. She wanted to vomit as she remembered the look on his face.
Guilt.
Pure Guilt.
She recognized the look. She had seen it before when she was only sixteen but seeing it on his face for the first time broke her heart in two. All she wanted to do was stay in bed, try and forget the last 12 hours of her life. Praying she would die so the pain would go away. But she couldn't. She looked down at her stomach and realized she had to live for two now. She wouldn't be selfish so she got out of bed and tried to prepare herself for the day ahead. Leaving her apartment she saw a picture of them on their two year anniversary.

Flashback
They left the restaurant and began to walk. The sky had turned into a dark red as the sun began to set. "Can we get ice cream?" She said as they passed by an ice cream vendor. "For you...anything." He smiled as he paid the ice cream man. With their cones, they entered a small park across the street from her apartment. Passing by an old couple, Tommy asked the gentleman to take a picture of them and handed over his camera. The old man smiled. Before he took the picture, Jude had pressed her ice cream against his chin, covering it in vanilla and sprinkles. She giggled "Oops, accident" He laughed with her as he wiped the ice cream off with a napkin. The next thing thing she felt was cold chocolate ice cream dripping from her nose. He put his hand over his mouth and giggled "Oops, accident" She frowned "That wasn't funny." "I'm sorry, here" He held the side of her face and licked the ice cream off her nose. "Eww..." She said and tried to push him off, but he kept his hand on her cheek. She looked up into his face and saw all traces of joking gone. He stared into her eyes as she placed a hand on his chest.

"I love you Jude Harrison."

In that moment the camera flashed.
End flashback

Looking back into the faces, she barely flinched as it dropped to the ground.
She walked out of her apartment stepping on the shards of glass,
like he had stepped on her heart.