SEND ME “BLACK BIRD” FOR A DARKER MEMORY OF MY MUSE’S PAST.
And that was it, she was gone. She came back while he was in a lecture the next day to get her things, and the only times he saw her was around campus by chance.
He tried everything, texting, calling, even going so far as to call her parents to make sure she was okay. They had some things to tell him, that's for sure.
God, what was he supposed to do? He couldn't be a father. He felt terrible leaving it-- the kid, not it, the kid-- without a father, that was an awful thing to do, but he was a child. How was a child supposed to raise a child?
You are a despicable excuse for a human being, leaving her and your son alone like that.
A son. He knew it would be a boy. How would Nat know how to raise a boy? She didn't have any brothers or anything.
In that moment, that was the first time in his life he knew what anguish was.