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"Are you afraid? It's okay if you have it, you know? Not everyone admits it, but it is perfectly natural to feel fear when you discover that you are about to become a mother"
My eyes go wide because I know exactly where this is going and I don't like it, especially because ...
I'm not pregnant!
"I mean, just your body ... you don't know what the hell is going on! Do you think morning sickness is bad? You haven't seen anything yet!"
Yeah ... I don't like where this is going.
"This reminds me that from now on, you should eat only healthy foods. One of the main reasons pregnant women get sick in the morning is because their body is trying to get rid of any toxins that may be harmful to their baby, so there will be no more junk food for you" Ms. Shiji says happily.
And it's official… I don't like this conve
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"You can't get married yet! She is still a baby!" Mrs. Shiji howls.Tora howls to herself, putting special emphasis on the "Ow!""Mrs. Shiji! You're suffocating her!" I scream in despair."How can you say that? Maybe you don't understand because you haven't had your baby yet, but she is my baby and I tell you that she will be by my side until she is 90 years old” she says stubbornly."No, Mrs. Shiji! You're suffocating Tora" I say, quickly pulling Tora out of the lady's arms and pulling her onto my lap."Oh!" Mrs. Shiji says with genuine surprise "Very sorry! I did not realize..."I shake my head and look sympathetically at the half-strangled cat in my arms. I could swear I just heard you breathe a sigh of relief. Either that or Tora is just trying to get the air back into her lungs."But Madame Shiji, that is exactly the problem. You are so caught up in your own emotions that you don't realize what you are doing with the people
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There are many ways to show love. One-touch. A whisper. A knowing look. If you're just an outsider, you may not pay much attention to these "little" gestures, passing them off as insignificant but given the right context, even outsiders will get a hint.Staring out the open carriage door, I keep staring in shock at the exemplary scene unfolding before me.There are no kisses, no dramatic declarations of love. There is only a boy and a girl hugging, crying silently.From a stranger's point of view, they could just be best friends, heartbroken at the idea of never seeing each other again. From an outsider's point of view, the way both of them are acting can be seen as completely understandable ... They grew up together in the castle, after all. From an outsider's point of view, the way they stay intimately close can be dismissed as excusable ... They're just saying goodbye.I turn to look at Madame Shiji's wide eyes and her slightly open mouth from hers.
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Madame Shiji looked at the face of her daughter now red and soaked with tears, shook her head in defeat, and murmured sadly: It is her turn to love ...I gasped."That? What's the matter?" Travis asked, looking at me with concern."I think ... there is hope," I smiled.Travis continued to look at me confused, but I just whispered "Trust me" and gently squeezed his hand in mine. Then, I looked back into the distance, causing him to do the same.We watched with bated breath as Mrs. Shiji moved even closer to Gabriela, extended her hands towards her, and placed them on both sides of her daughter's face."I haven't forgotten about you Gabriela, I couldn't if I wanted to. Because it's so hard for you to breathe, as hard as it makes you want to cry, as hard as it tears your heart, it's nothing compared to how I feel about you! You are the only thing I love with all my heart and soul, you are the one that makes my heartache! From the moment I held
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The baby that didn't even exist!And then I realized ... I wanted to be a dad. He wanted me to be a mother, he wanted this baby. He wanted him so implicitly that it was probably the reason why he hadn't realized the pregnancy wasn't real ... Because he was right in the middle of denial and wishful thinking. My heart sank.What had he done? How did things get so out of control?If I told him that she wasn't pregnant right now, in front of all these other people, it would not only break her heart and her hopes for him, but it would also crush him. STUPID Travis! If I didn't feel so bad for him, I'd hit him on the head. It was his stupid lie that started all this! Now, for his sake, he was going to have to maintain that lie, At least until she could talk to him, if she told him the truth now, she wouldn't have a chance to explain. Everyone else was forced to get in our way
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"I'm so sorry, Travis! If you hadn't told everyone that I felt sick this morning ... I mean, everyone knows we're together, so everyone assumed ... I tried to explain before, but you saw when everyone got involved it was too chaotic. So I knew it would be better if I told you the truth when we were alone ... I'm sorry I know how much I wanted this! I said, my apology came out more like a plea.Travis looked at me with bleak eyes, but his words and tone weren't angry or accusing the way he expected them to be."You don't have to apologize because there is nothing for you to do. Everything is a great misunderstanding and it started with a lie that I started. I have no one to blame for this, only myself""I know I should feel better since you are taking all of this very well, but somehow I just feel worse. Why?""I think it's because we realized how much we loved this baby, after all"I felt pricks in the back of my eyes and I knew that he had underst
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Slowly, I traced my fingertips against the contours of his face, feeling like I was seeing him for the first time like I was looking at the face of a stranger. I took his left cheek in my hand and gently stroked the scar that ran down the length of him, carefully rubbing my thumb back and forth against the line of discolored flesh. Rather than marring his features, he just seemed to add to them, making him appear formidable to enemies, yet human and vulnerable to the few people who knew him best, people like me.He put a gloved hand on the left side of my face and gently stroked my cheek with his thumb the way he was stroking it. His gaze met mine and with just one look I knew what he wanted. His body slowly leaned into mine and I let my eyes slowly close as I felt the distance between us decrease until it was completely gone. I felt more than seeing his lips pressing against mine, soft and warm, prompting me wordlessly to participate and I did. Pressing and pushing my lips a
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A light, a cool breeze gently blows against our sweaty faces and sticky, overheated bodies, cooling us down and giving us much-needed relief, while above our heads the moon is a pale ghost white, a stark contrast to the scorching red sun. deep orange in the west which is the direction we are heading.It is a rarity ... to have the moon and the sun in the sky simultaneously, but it is a common rarity if that makes any sense."Jane, are you okay?" he asks softly behind me."I'm fine." I look over my shoulder and smile at him.Like most of the people in the convoy, we allow ourselves to pass so we can protect the rear, he and I are riding a double camel, Travis sitting behind the camel's hump, and me sitting in front him. This is mainly because Madam Shiji and Gabriela brought too many belongings with them and instead of transporting people around a quarter of the camels carry packages instead, of Gabriela, it is understandable she was supposed to get marrie
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"I'm not asking you to stop worrying about him, I'm asking you to stop blaming yourself for not being able to control his actions. It's easy to blame ourselves for so many things that go wrong in this world, but sometimes we just have to accept the fact that not everything is under our control. People especially aren't something you can control, so stop blaming yourself for all the things you did or didn't do. If you can do that, it's a way to start getting away from Christina's downfall""And what about you? You seem to have stopped trying to live your life differently than your father did. And what about you? You seem to have stopped trying to live your life differently than your father did. You don't follow the rules anymore. Aren't you afraid of having the same fate as him now?""That's another thing I learned, we are not our parents and you are not Christina. Simply being independent of them gives us a better chance to change our destinies.""Just bec
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