Alternate Reality
(From Blue's Perspective)
Two days passed since Dem had left. He had sent me a letter yesterday saying he was on his way to the battlefield. He promised to send me a letter if he got any time and would come to visit me in a month.
The fact that he would be by my side probably for the remaining months of my pregnancy was saddening. But more than being sad, I was scared for his well-being.
"Don't just sit in your room," Evan said as he walked into the bedroom while I was sitting on a chair with Sapphire on my lap. I was trying to read a book unsuccessfully as my mind kept thinking only about one thing, one person.
"I have nothing else to do. I am trying to read a book," I said.
"You," he said, taking the book from me, "are holding it upside down. And this is what you call reading?"
"… Just leave me alone…"