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“You need to drink and eat,” I said.
She had done neither, and now that she had spoken, I was ready to insist.
“Fine,” she said.
I grabbed a bottle of water and an apple.
“What?” I said as she wrinkled her nose. “You love apples.”
“I do,” she said. “The baby does not.”
The baby.
The magnitude of what she said seemed to hit her, and though her demeanor didn’t really change, she seemed to sink into herself.
“I have bananas,” I said.
“Bananas are fine,” she whispered.
She took the fruit, and as she ate it, I watched her, trying to notice the changes.
There were a few, and they were very subtle, but I noticed them nonetheless.
Her skin had a richness to it, a glow that hadn’t been there before. And her hair, which had always been full, had grown, and brushed her shoulders in waves that were looser than before.
There was also a bit of extra fullness to her face, but it was barely noticeable.
“Could you stop staring at me?” she said between bites of fruit.
“No,” I responded.
She chuckled, the smile genuine, and taking my breath away.
“I didn’t think you were going to come after me,” she finally said.
“At first I wasn’t,” I responded.
Something passed across her face, though I couldn’t quite interpret it.
“What changed your mind?”
“You know what changed my mind, Amethyst,” I said, my voice tight.
“The baby,” she said.
“That you would try to keep my child from me—”
“Try to keep my child from a murderous criminal?” she yelled.
“My child from me,” I repeated, my voice stern.
I could see she wanted to argue, but she didn’t.
“I’d only just found out myself, so how do you even know about him?”
“A boy?” I asked.
“I don’t know. I just call him a him,” she said. “How did you find me?”
