When There Is Nothing Left But Love

I was at a loss, so I went to Macy.

She was at Hour Bar.

It was still early, so there weren’t many customers. Macy ordered a cocktail before she handed it to me. “Why are you here at this hour? Did something happen?”

My gaze swept across the girls spinning around the poles. Hearing the tremendously loud pop music and yells, I shook my head. The cocktail was already on my lips when I put it down. “No. I came here to wind down.”

“Did Ashton bully you again?” Macy asked in exasperation. “If you’ve had enough of it, get a divorce. You’re pretty enough to get other men whom you’re attracted to. Why would you stay with an ice sculpture forever? Isn’t that tiring?”

Macy was always this outspoken. We were good friends, so she hated seeing me mope over Ashton.

I handed the pregnancy report to her as I uttered helplessly, “Even if I’m pretty, would any man accept me if I have a child?”

Grabbing the pregnancy report from me, Macy studied it carefully. Her eyes widened as she asked me, “You’re six weeks pregnant? I’d thought that you never had sex with Ashton? How did you get pregnant?”

got drunk last month? Ashton came to pick me up.”

took her a while to regain her composure.

honest, I

Macy. “Ashton and you don’t belong together. George is dead, so being pregnant spells trouble. You should abort it and get a divorce.

As the crowd was growing, I told Macy, “You should

that I wouldn’t heed her advice. Seeing as such, she changed my cocktail to

too busy to

people milling around in the bar

arrived. It wasn’t until people started yelling and stuff went crashing on the ground

few thugs were in the bar; all of them were surrounding Macy. Most of the customers had fled. Even the booming

was sitting in the corner in the shadows, so no one noticed me. The thugs who were

was evident that they were here to find fault. To my surprise, Macy was eerily calm. Eventually, she asked them, “Are you here to find