A/N: One more drabble chap left until we're back to present.
3 more chaps to end. Thank you millions.
..:.. Chapter 73 - Kick ..:..
I feel it kick. I startle awake.
"Who's there?" I stupidly ask aloud, groggily.
Jess opens her eyes from across me. They flutter closed. Tired. Tired. Sick of me.
Last night, she came over for the weekend, and we binged on shows and sweets. She rubbed oil on my skin around the stretch marks. Another lecture to do it every night before bed.
"Yes, ma'am," is all I say. I began to listen, to comply, because the day she brought in a therapist to just ... talk, I about flipped the fuck out. It was an intervention. The next threat was telling Charlie.
So, I'm listening. I'm complying. Yes ma'am and no thank you. I even got my old job back at Sue's shop.
"Me. Me's here," she murmurs just as stupidly. She pushes her hand across the bed and holds mine.
I marvel. I'm silent and frozen. I stay still feeling it kick and kick in there.
It is alien.
Slowly, I move her hand to my middle and let it sit there.
She startles awake.
When she looks up, she looks up at me smiling, traitorous tears down my cheeks.
That was the moment I thought I could do this. The only one.
I stupidly told my therapist so confidently.
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