MasukELIOT'S POV Some things are better left unsaid. They're better left unheard, unexplained. Unlived even. We could really do without them, I could do without them. I could've done without hearing those words. Those very words fall out of her lips, and unto my ears. And then the scene playing out in front of me.The scene.The part where she heads back to him, pulled him along, and walk right out the door. The same door I'd spent countless times fantascying the both of us walking out. Going home. She on her two feet, strong and perfectly okay.With me.I had to watch it play out. But I wasn't in it.I was on the side. Watching it happen. Watching it fucking happen.Nothing could've worse than that. Nothing."It feels like I'm loosing her all over again," I said, voice low. Drained of energy. Of everything. "It's like I'm loosing her all over again, mom. I thought we were good. We were fine now, she's fine. I don't...I don't understand. I don't understand anything at all, why? Why??""D
SERENA'S POV I'd totally forgotten about him.Totally forgotten about everything. I was just... I'd been just so engrossed. So engrossed with the trip, the activities...Eliot.Us.The trip.Oh God, the trip. What about the others? What about them? Had they all returned home? Had we returned home?Was I in the city right now? One of the hospitals there? Where the hell was I?? What city? Or town."I can... I can explain," I said still, focusing on the issue at hand. Axel. "I can explain.""Serena," he stepped closer. Watching us. Him more than me, and with a high level of hostility too. "Axel," I called him, turning his focus back to me. "Let me explain.""Explain? Oh please explain, please do. I'm listening." He approached my bed. Arms across his chest, no smiles whatsoever. Lookimg from me to Eliot, who had also moved to pull the sheets back up on me. Covering me up.Axel watching this."It was an arrangement," I started, "We...we had some sort of arrangement. Sexual arrangements."
SERENA'S POV "I was going to check on you after, check how the baby's doing now you're awake." She said, staring at me. "You really didn't know?"I blinked. Suddenly settled. Surprised. In disbelief.Pregnant.Pregnant.I was pregnant. How could I be pregnant? I've tried to get pregnant for the longest time but it never clicked. Never!"Are you okay?" The doctor called, skeptical. "You don't look exactly excited or relieved.""Am really pregnant?" I asked, "Like really? You're sure?""Well... unless something's wrong with the previous tests, then you indeed are. You really didn't know?""No," my voice broke. Crying again. Again! What's with me and crying??"Awww, then I should've said it more nicely. You're pregnant, Serena. Pregnant. We can show you. Show you your baby."At her words the nurses moved around and pushed in another machine. One I'd seen before. Over and over. All those times I rushed to the hospital insisting for a scan, sure that I was pregnant. Then going home...sad.
SERENA'S POV Pain.That was all my mind could register. Pain, and then movements. Screams. Voices so loud, so close, but then warm. My body felt warm. I felt warm. Like a big blanket had been suddenly wrapped around me. Firm.Then more voices. This one softer. Way softer. Cuddling and gently wrapping all over me...That's how I knew it was him.Eliot.And like that, my subconscious gave up.I don't know for how long it did, or how long it took, but slowly, I felt myself stirring. My subconscious. Stirring.It was like a slow movement on water. A gentle movement, each time bringing me closer and closer, a reflection shining down on me. A bright light. So bright I had to squint to protect myself. Protect my eyes.But just as I adjusted, got comfortable with the lights...my eyes opened.My eyes...my actual eyes. It opened, and slowly I took in what was my environment. I wasn't on water, wasn't moving anywhere, rather I was still. Still on some bed. My body so stiff, so stiff you would t
Axel's POV "Wait, what do you mean she's not here? Isn't this the Crest Resort?""Yes it is Crest Resort, sir. But Mrs. Serena Beckett is in fact not here."Mrs. Serena Beckett."No need to use all full names..." I smiled at the receptionist, understanding what this was about. What really this was about. "You're not exactly holding out on me because of some policy, are you?" I winked, moving closer. "Cause if you are...then I understand. I totally understand. But I'm a friend of 'Mrs. Beckett.' though. Here's my ID, we share the same surname. Family. Okay? You have nothing to worry about.""Well..." she looked at my ID, skeptical. Still skeptical, but then she said. "I want to help sir, but... Mrs. Serena Beckett really isn't here. She got checked out after the accident and is now being treated at the Morris Clinic 6 blocks from here. Mr Beckett's assistant-"Woah, hold on." I cut her off, confused. Laughing lightly. "What? Can you...can you repeat that?""I said Mrs.Serena Beck-"I
ELIOT'S POV It was all my fault.All my fault.I couldn't protect her enough, couldn't keep her safe enough. I couldn't safeguard that which I was supposed to, keep her by my side!I had just one job. One single job, rekindle our marriage but look! Look how I messed it all up! Look how I let her go and now she was out there in the dark. Trembling through the phone, sweeping, scared... Cold and hungry too. All by herself! All by herself!!It was my fault. Mine.But I'd die a hundred times if I got to her late. If I didn't reach her on time, didn't make good use of the firelight she shot out to the skies. The same lights that were to be used as celebration tonight after I officially proposed we drop the divorce and give us another try. Give our marriage another try.But look how I was using them. Look how those same lights were being used right now, her cries and whimpers echoing in my ears from the phone, my feet digging several times into the ground as I raced madly at the source of







