JACQUELINE “Ah” I exclaimed, clenching my chest for a brief moment and halting in my steps. You could still hear the rhythmic droplets of water in the darkness.“Are you okay?” Ruby faintly asked as i shut my eyes, realizing i was still very much in subconscious even though i eventually began to feel things, pain most especially. And guilt.“I’m good” I waved off, walking to her side. We were on our way out to the door, that led to what seemed like the heavens. It was as symbolic as those stock pictures you’d see. The quiet waterfall and the bluest sky with the whitest of clouds. You could smell the peace and tranquillity here.She pushed it open and seemed to float on a cloud before she looked back. I asked on seeing a smile creep to the side if her lips.“Are you happy here?” I asked.And she scoffed, echoing the same exact words- “

MARIAMaria’s gaze was fixed out of the window, on nothing in particular. She just scanned through her brain for the doctor’s exact words."It's cancer" She even remembered the little things like how he licked the tip of his fingers before slowly opening the documents. She remembered the time at that exact moment.16:08, the time that changed her life. Maria was forty five and she couldn’t wrap her head around the fact, around why, this was coming now."But i was right" He said it immediately. "You said you just started feeling heavy, and gastric cancer could very much imitate the signs of early pregnancy and we caught it immediately. So early-”“that it's amazing. Your chances are amazing" He managed to remain optimistic while she was deeply horrified. Maria, in that moment had begun to question alot of things.As in this moment, she was numb. Her eyes swollen with tears as the car

WU“—the United States is handling a huge number of corona virus cases as the global pandemic descends on the country with New York and Miami in particular experiencing huge numbers of cases—“My eyes were stuck on the news, it was the fifth time that night that i had seen the headlines about a lockdown. It was the same story, but different words. My deep breathes struggled to escape my lips as i listened to every single word.“At least twenty four states have directed all citizens to stay at home and seven have even announced the closure of schools for the remainder of the academic year. Several states have already ordered businesses and workplaces to close and enforce social distancing by limiting public gatherings with California, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Washington and Miami adopting the most comprehensive policies by mandatory state wide quarantine—” I paused the news, looking to Mabel that walked in from t

JACQUELINE Jacqueline’s eyes trailed him from behind. Harry. He had walked to the side of the room at a ring of his phone. She lazily just stared at the ceiling for the past hour, humming replies to him.She had gotten back from the hospital. The place, where she had seemingly been the most of the past months.Although Jacq had convinced him that he had to go to work, he just couldn’t. At one point, he had thrown himself to work to avoid her and now he was literally trying to be around for everything.And it was somewhat suffocating. Maybe it was because he blamed himself for the accident, had he been around whilst she was grieving, maybe——just maybe she wouldn’t have tried to kill herself. He blamed himself, she blamed herself. Two people with so much grief and loss, together in quarantine. 

WUWu stared at the plate at the front of her. But not for long. She stared at Jade for longer. She never imagined that one dinner would transition into these amounts of visits and more and she could not tell if it was a good thing or bad thing that——Mabel loved her, them.She remembered the first dinner they had and how Mabel couldn’t stop admiring Jade for their courage until it seemed a little bit weird so if it had come down to anything, she would want Jade to be around all the time. Like how many god forsaken times had they whispered to each other by the sink or on the couch, leaving Wu to wonder every piece was not fair.But in that moment, she had forgotten about all that as she fluttered her lashes, dashing her eyes off the plate and looking towards the television. She tossed it aside in no time since it was almost empty and adjusted well int