I NEVER KNOW IT’D COME SO SUDDENLY || MILLION CRY IN DEEPLY HEART JAYDEN WITH SEVERE CONTRACTIONS
I never knew it’d come so suddenly. One moment, the world felt ordinary—quiet, predictable, safe. The next, it shattered into a storm of panic and pain. Jayden clutched his chest as if trying to hold his heart together, his body folding inward with severe contractions that stole the air from his lungs.
It wasn’t supposed to happen like this.
The doctors had said there was time. Time for treatment. Time for healing. Time for hope. But time is a fragile promise, and that night it slipped through our fingers like grains of sand.
Jayden had always been the strongest among us. The one who laughed the loudest, who carried everyone else’s burdens without complaint. Yet there he was, trembling, his face pale, his breaths coming in sharp, broken gasps. Each contraction twisted through him like an invisible knife. His hands searched for something—someone—to anchor him.
“I’m here,” I whispered, though my voice shook.
Around us, machines beeped in uneven rhythms, echoing the chaos in my chest. It felt as though a million cries were trapped inside my heart, pounding against my ribs, begging to be released. Fear has a sound. It is silent but deafening. It fills every space, every thought, every prayer.
Jayden’s eyes met mine, and in them I saw more than pain. I saw confusion. I saw the unspoken question: Why now? None of us ever think the storm will choose us. We believe tragedy belongs to distant stories, to other families, to other nights.
Another wave of contractions overtook him, fiercer than before. His body arched, and a fragile groan escaped his lips. I held his hand tighter, wishing I could absorb even a fraction of what he was enduring.
Moments stretched into lifetimes. Hope and despair stood side by side, locked in battle.
And in that unbearable stillness between breaths, I realized something cruel and profound: life can change without warning. Love becomes louder in emergencies. Regret becomes sharper. And the heart—no matter how strong—can break in an instant.
I never knew it’d come so suddenly. But it did. And nothing would ever be the same again.