Short Story

WHATS UP GUYS???????? so i decided to try my hand at short story writing since i figured that we had read a lot of them already, and that i sort of had the gist of how to write one (SOO much harder than i thought) so i hope everyone enjoys it, and if you wanna id love to hear what you guys think, and i could also use some help coming up with a title.

The waiting room was empty at four in the morning, except for Dave and four other tired, panicky guys. They were each dressed in their own way, some in suits, some in sweatpants, but they were all there for the same reason. Dave had met Susana around ten months before. At twenty-three, Dave WAS looking for someone to settle down with but, as soon as he saw Susana walk into his friend's halloween party dressed as “Slutty Cookie Monster,” Dave knew that she was not going to be “the one,” but that had never stopped anyone before.

After they spent some time together, Dave started to feel bad but, like everyone knows, being with someone who likes you, and cares about you, is much better than being alone. So Dave tried and tried, but after a few weeks of trying, he tried way too hard and accidently got Susana pregnant. Dave did not love Susana but she loved him, and sometimes that is enough for things to work out. So, they moved in together and they started planning ahead for the future, which was shrouded in a veil of disbelief for Dave, but all too real for Susana.

One night, Dave didn’t come home after work. Susana waited, and worried, and reassured herself the whole time he was gone. After two long nights spent at Lucys, Dave finally stumbled home.

“I don't love you,” she said.

“Alright,” he said.

“We're through,” she said.

“Cool,” he said

But, after seven months of trying to make a failed relationship work, it was too late for anything to be done about the baby.

All of a sudden a nurse burst through the door, and the five men stood up.

“Dave?” she said in a soft  voice

“Yeah, that's me,” Dave croaked out, as the other men sat down with sighs, and returned to their state of inward panic.

“Come with me,” she said with a smile, as she lead Dave down the long, colorful hallway.

Dave walked into room 28C and found everything to be a lot different from what he expected. There was no blood and no doctors in blue scrubs scurrying around, instead there was just an extremely sweaty Susana, holding a small, pink, bundle of noise. Susana smiled at him and handed him the now-quiet bundle of blankets and baby so that she could close her eyes for a bit. All thoughts of pretty nurses and Slutty Cookie Monsters flooded out of his thoughts as he looked down at his little squirming baby girl. 

Dave didn't love Susana but, as he looked into his new baby girls eyes, he realized that he had finally found “the one.”