I am very glad to have a lunch with my boyfriend Jack today. I missed being with him. Since he started to work for a new company we merely see each other.
He is always busy. I have felt trapped for more than ten months, so my psychologist advised me to change something in life. We decided to have a child. It seemed nice to take care about someone else. And today I can't wait to tell him that our efforts at least have brought the positive result. It will make him happy, because he is a little bit
anxious last time. We are going to meet at the cafe “The Lavender”, a cozy place, violet curtains, only four tables, branches of lavender on them and three handsome waitresses.
I see Jack through the glass door. He is staring at one point. Is he upset? Hope I will raise his mood. When I enter the cafe one of the waitresses looks at me with a pity. So strange. I came up to Jack trying not to distract myself with that look.
`Emma, here you are!`
`Hello, love!`
I am exited, he is upset. I think I should tell him about pregnancy right now, but he starts first.
`Emma, I`ve thought about my feelings, I thought about us... You see, we have been together for a long time now... And I feel that... That... I do not need... them and... us. Even the Universe refuses to us having a family, I mean, we have been trying to have a child for more than ten months and it looks like a thing that is not going to happen...`
He paused. I am completely shocked. I hear the sounds around going down like if someone wraps me in a big cocoon. Marrieds at the next table glimpse at us. They must think that Jack has made a proposal.
`Em, I am so sorry. I just decided not to torment you with my coldness and the lack of love. A sudden break is always better than slowly love decaying`.
He does not want me anymore. Not me, us! Me and him together, a baby... My heart is going to break my chest bones, but I find a courage to answer:
`You do not have to be sorry, Jack, it is okay. Thank you for your sincerity. I will pack my stuff today, hope you will spend a night in your brother's house`.
`Yes, sure. It is the last that I can do. Thank you, Em... And I am sorry...`
I stand up and left the cafe, crying on my way home. This is the end of the my love story. So trivial. I thought that our relationships with Jack is something special.
The fate can be cruel, but I am glad, that I will have a child from the man I love with all my heart, even if it is broken.
Her name is Lachesis, nowadays she works as a waitress in the cafe “The Lavender” in central part of New-York. Lachesis` two sisters work with her. She is the middle child and she is still uncertain about her position in the family. Father always loved her elder sister Clotho most of all, while mother payed much attention to the youngest, Atropos. That is why Lachesis is the most compassionate of three sisters. Hasn't got enough love in childhood she doesn't turned into an angry hateful creature, indeed she is full of unspent tenderness.
Lachesis sees the young woman entering the cafe. Her name is Emma. Lachesis remembers that twenty six years ago Clotho has started a thread of this woman's life. After that Emma's life is under the responsibility of the middle Moira, Lachesis. She has known what ever happened in Emma's life, she wits, what will happened, and when it all be finished, in 2067, when Atropos, following the order of their father, Zeus, will rip the thread of Emma's life. Emma enters the cafe. Lachesis knows that a few minutes later Emma's lover will break up with her, she, standing near the bar, couldn't help feeling a pity to this young pregnant lady. But she pays more regrets to Jack, Emma's boyfriend. Lachesis admires him for his courage and his sacrifice. What a lamentable irony, that he will
be hated for his the most eminent action. Lachesis is aware that he was diagnosed with cancer two days ago. The middle Moira, as her sisters do, wits that he will die in ten months two days five hours and ten minutes from now. As soon as Jack has discovered that he will turn into a motionless dying person, he decided to save Emma from taking part in it. He doesn't want her to live with his ghost in future. He wants her to be happy, to have a family, he does not want her to live her life in mourning
and cursing the injustice of fate.
That is why he made the decision for both of them. Emma will never discover, that the father of her son, who broke up with her in the rudest way that it may be, died from cancer. Two years later she will meet a British ambassador, a descendant of a prominent English family. She will move to
London and have her second child, a daughter named Adriana, with her husband. Lachesis knows, that Adriana in 2047 will invent a vaccine for cancer, which would save millions of people.
Lachesis, standing near the bar and looking how Jack lies to Emma in the utterly harsh way, wits, that if this didn't happen, Adriana would never be born.
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