Thaddeus by Hope Hitchens

Author:Hope Hitchens [Hitchens, Hope]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-12-09T16:00:00+00:00

I stayed downstairs. She had to come back down to lock the door after I had left. Maybe she wanted to find me gone by the time she got back. Maybe doing that would have been a favor to her after the night she had had, but I wasn’t going to just leave. She had just had her unpassed placenta removed, or extracted, or something from her. I didn’t know what I could possibly offer by way of support, but the least I could do was wait to see that she was actually fine. As I waited, I made the mistake of googling what a D&C was; the procedure that Veronica had just had done.

Worst mistake of my life.

The ‘C’ in D&C stood for ‘curettage.’ Why did they let women just leave the hospital after they had had that done? They did that thing to her that you did with Thanksgiving turkeys and stuffing but in reverse. I didn’t have a uterus and the other shit down there, so I couldn’t empathize but fuck. How was she walking around and talking after that? I heard her coming back down the stairs. She had changed. She was in a thin t-shirt and shorts.

“Thanks again, for… everything,” she said.

“Don’t mention it,” I said. She walked up to me and kissed me, on the lips. It wasn’t hungry, or needy; it was grateful. “Are you gonna be okay tonight?”

“I wanted to ask... could you... could you stay here tonight?” she asked. Her hand closed around mine. She had just been taken apart and cleaned like a rifle. I didn’t want to leave her, and she didn’t want me to leave either.

“What about Michael?”

“There’s no more Michael. I would ask you to come upstairs, but the kids are asleep in my bed.”

“You want me to sleep with you?”

“I get it if you don’t want to... I just-”

“I’ll stay,” I said. She went back upstairs to grab a blanket and some pillows, even though it was pretty hot, and we likely wouldn’t need the blanket. I took my shoes, shirt, and jeans off. She didn’t ask me to put anything back on when she came back down and saw me. I didn’t realize how much smaller she was than me until we were lying down.

The couch wasn’t small, I could stretch out pretty comfortably, and she didn’t take up that much space, so we wouldn’t wake up sore. She started with her back to me but flipped over, so she was on her front. The size of the couch meant most of her body was draped over mine. Not a bad thing at all.

She fell asleep with her head on my chest.

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