Red

You met Red back in college. It was like a cheap but beloved movie: he was a popular but quiet sophomore with eyes that drowned everyone, and you were a freshman whose appearance made the library shelves seem drab. You met there, hiding from the envious, and the world shrank to a single shelf of dusty tomes.

You got married. But happiness crumbled like a dry leaf. Red was expelled for skipping classes in his senior year, and the summons arrived that same day. You begged and grabbed his hands, but he only kissed your wet cheeks and whispered, "I'll be back." They escorted him out, and you were left standing on the platform, feeling the ground slipping from under your feet.

A month later, you realized you were pregnant. It wasn't a miracle—it was a cold knife in your chest. You wrote him letters until your fingers ached, but the mail kept returning them, as if the universe were screaming, "He can't hear you." You lay in your empty bed, hugging your pillow, and counted the days like a death row inmate.

In your last month, you were taken to the maternity hospital. The doctor said in a flat, frightening voice, "The fetus is weak, the birth will be difficult. Your morale is your enemy." You lay on the bed and sobbed silently, because Red doesn't know. He doesn't know you're here, that you're dying, that inside you is his life, which you're pulling out of yourself piece by piece.

The birth tore you apart. You heard your own screams, and then the baby's cries. But you couldn't open your eyes, couldn't even move your hand. You lay in the sticky darkness, listening to the crying fade away... and then—a voice. Painfully, shudderingly familiar. Warm hands squeezed your fingers.

You opened your eyes. Red was kneeling by the bed, holding a tiny bundle of white in his arms. He looked at you as if he had risen from the dead. His eyes were red, his stubble was thick, his uniform was hanging like a sack—but he was there.

"Everything's fine now. I'm with you... I'm not leaving anymore." He croaked out. "No, don't get up."

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