I almost fall. It's about the last thing I'm expecting to leave her mouth, such a blatant reminder of my first wife, my unborn child. It's hard to think sometimes that I'm not even thirty and already on my second marriage. That I'm not even thirty and already I've lost a baby. I've suffered so many losses in my lifetime, probably more than anyone else I know, but even though I've moved on from them all, pushed through the pain and despair, every last one still hurts when I stop to think of them. Not all wounds are healed by time.
Yet Felicia mentions it so casually that I wonder if she even realizes what she's just gone and said. I'm too winded to ask. And so, caught entirely off guard, I do what I do best -- I make a quick exit. Letting myself drop from the branch, I do a flip in midair, landing in a messy crouch in the snow, and promptly shoot off a webline to get me out of here ASAP.
"Yeah, weird. Look, it's been nice catching up, Cat, but uh, I just remembered something," I say hastily, taking a running jump. "See you around."
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Date: 2011-01-26 06:27 am (UTC)Yet Felicia mentions it so casually that I wonder if she even realizes what she's just gone and said. I'm too winded to ask. And so, caught entirely off guard, I do what I do best -- I make a quick exit. Letting myself drop from the branch, I do a flip in midair, landing in a messy crouch in the snow, and promptly shoot off a webline to get me out of here ASAP.
"Yeah, weird. Look, it's been nice catching up, Cat, but uh, I just remembered something," I say hastily, taking a running jump. "See you around."