Chapter 2

Two

This is bigger than you and I.

I’m shaking.

I can barely feel my hands, my feet are cold and my mouth is still. My mind races with thoughts about the future, baby. Baby, what have we done? We have created something that not even we can handle. Immature and childish -there’s no way. I can’t do this alone but I may not have a choice. My options are not limited but your support is. I need you - this takes two. Together is better but forever is never. I have a choice and you have a voice. What do we do? Baby, this world is cruel and unusual. I, myself am still growing and you are too, quickly at that. My love, what do we do? I’m unsure. I may hate myself for the choice I need to make but I can’t allow you to suffer. Selflessness comes in different variations. I’m feeling blue, baby tell me this isn’t true. Negative or positive, it takes two.

Darian V. Barletto