Her innocent happiness

As she was a university student with a promising career ahead of her, it was difficult to imagine her wanting to become a mother at that age; too young, too wild and too much in love with her own restless soul. But that is what she said, ‘I am trying to get pregnant’, over and over again, every time closer to getting all teared up, yet she never lost the serious tone in her voice and never, not once, shed a single tear. She was so sure she wanted to carry his children. ‘They will be blond, you know’ she said, ‘just like him’.

That year was her line, the line that departed her from innocent happiness.