Darkest Darkness

“Let me just be here with you,” Oscar held Eliza’s hand in the darkness, and felt her quake underneath his touch.

He could not explain it, but he knew that he needed to see her that day. Their visit had started happily, she was glowing when he saw her and they sat and ate noodles that he had gotten for them which was something they loved to share. 

“Excuse me,” Eliza had said to him quietly, and the words stung in his memory now. She was in the bathroom for a long while and he got up instinctively to look after her. The door was not closed, and he saw her looking at her panties. It looked like she had gotten her period, so he went back to where he was sitting and ate more noodles.

When she finally returned to him, she said.

“I have to go to the hospital.”

“What is wrong?” he stood up, concerned and went to her.

She looked at him, and he realized she looked paler than she had when he first saw her.

“I think I am having a miscarriage.”

“You’re pregnant?” His surprise was not hidden.

She nodded without looking up at him.

He thought there was something different about her, but he had not been able to place it. 

“I’ll come with you,” he said when she did not answer.

She nodded again.

They got into a car, and headed to the hospital. The math that raced through his head as they drove through the city, let Oscar know that this baby he did not know about could be his.

But he said nothing because it currently looked like there was not going to be a baby.

He stayed with her the entire time, and went home with her after the doctor prescribed her medication to help induce the miscarriage.

Eliza did not turn the lights on when she got home, and Oscar did not put them on.

“Let me be with you,” he said taking her hand. Rafe and Bibi were gone until later that evening. He did not want her alone.

She nodded.

They sat in the darkest darkness that Oscar had ever been in.

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