Kiss of Truth

-Past Memories- She was pregnant. We were sitting in my car when she told me, parked in front of her house. The radio was on. She started crying before she even got the words out, and that's how I knew it was serious. David Bowie was the worst possible soundtrack for the moment but I'll remember that song for as long as I live. I tried to comfort her but the gearstick and the handbrake and the force of lives collapsing got in the way. I think I started crying too. We couldn't even get out and go inside because her parents were home. I didn't say are you sure? or, is it mine? I just wound down the window because it was getting hard to breathe. She had an abortion but didn't tell me until after....