Goodbye to You
Right before the abortion, I imagined a million ways he might react—maybe regret, maybe breaking down—but I never expected this.
I suddenly burst out laughing, and it hurt so much that my stomach cramped up. The stitches I just got started bleeding a bit.
Carl freaked out. "What's so funny?"
I looked at the man I had spent six years with and felt nothing but disgust. He was unfamiliar to me now.
"Carl, do you have any shame? How could you even say something like that? Just because you're a disgusting person, do you think I am too? I'm nothing like you!"