Ethan
I can't stay here… I can't.
The air in that room grows heavy, dense… unbearable.
Clara starts to get agitated, her voice barely rises, her breathing changes, the doctors come in, the nurses move quickly… and I just feel like I'm in the way.
That I'm a nuisance, that my presence… makes her uncomfortable. That… that's what hurts the most.
I take a step back, then another. And I leave without saying anything, without looking back.
The door closes behind me and the sound… echoes inside me more than it should.
I walk, I don't know where. I just walk… Hallway after hallway.
People pass by me, voices, footsteps, everything blends together, but I can't hear anything clearly.
Only… that emptiness.
That feeling that something broke, something important, something I don't know how to
