After I found out I was pregnant, I had hesitated. But seeing how joyful he was, I gradually became excited for the birth of this child too.
My brother had bought all sorts of cute clothes for the baby, and this warmed my heart greatly. He even appeared to be more excited than Shane.
“I’m going to be the best uncle in the whole world!”
Closing my eyes, I could not help but feel sorrow on my brother’s behalf.
I could not even imagine how crazed he would be when he saw those disgusting text messages during his commute through the morning rush hour.
After the surgery, I was still in a bit of a daze when I opened my eyes. I walked out of the building and saw how the sunlight was shining over the paths, but there was only emptiness in my heart.
When I took out my phone, I saw that there were numerous missed calls. Shane was still calling, so I answered.
“Where are you?” he asked in a trembling voice.
When he did not hear my response, he yelled angrily, “Miley Hephman! Where in the world are you!”
“At the hospital. Tell your mother the baby’s gone.”
I hung up the call right after that, not wanting to hear his voice for even one second longer.
I continued walking as I scrolled through the thousands of messages that had piled up in the family group chat.
The first person to finish going through the screenshots had probably been my brother.
His first message was directed at Shane. “You bastard! Where are you?”
No one responded to him. It was only much later that my mother-in-law, Susanna, made an appearance.
“Miley, are you at home? I’m heading over there now. Don’t make any impulsive decisions regarding the baby.”
She continuously tagged Shane, but no one responded to her. My mother was initially merely enjoying the piping-hot tea and had only just realized what was actually happening.
“Who is this girl?”
At this point, my brother had completely lost it and was now sending long voice messages into the group chat.
“Shane, you son of a bitch! You went and introduced a slut to me? How can you even look me and my sister in the eye?”
Shane did not make a peep throughout it all and just had his elderly mother continuously try to explain and appease everyone.
I continued to scroll to the bottom. It was as if I was watching a shit show that had nothing to do with me at all.
There were notifications of new messages down my list of chats. Everyone was trying to get a hold of me.
When I got to the hospital’s main gate, I saw Shane stumbling through in a rush.
