My love for Calvin, what little remained of it, faded away on that drizzly spring day. Along with my mother, my child, and everything else I could not hold on to.Calvin scooped me into his arms, only to find his hands covered in blood. Trembling, he carried me and ran toward the hospital. While we were on the way, I thought I felt tears falling onto my face.Why does anything not last?Not my parents. Not my child.As for Calvin… it no longer mattered…“Yvette, do not fall asleep.“Yvette, talk to me, please.”I was exhausted and did not feel like speaking. Through my blurry vision, I saw the panic written all over his face.“Honey, please do not let anything happen to you. Please, I will listen to everything you say from now on.”I had heard those words before. He never meant them. Calvin was always the same liar, through and through.As darkness closed in, flashes of the past replayed in my mind.When I was sixteen, he raced past me, leaving behind the gentlest breath of
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