Title: A Life Together
Author: Sintari
Challenge: #5 Committment
Words: 100
Rating: G
Author's Notes: I'm not as happy with this one as I was with the other ones, but it needed to end up this way, so I'm posting it as is.

I stand up for her at her wedding. She squeezes my hand before the ceremony and I care enough that I smile through the whole day.

I deliver her baby when her husband is too squeamish to enter the room. With shaking scissors, I cut the cord that separates one into two.

I keep her on the phone until she falls asleep the night he leaves the house saying his final, flat goodbye.

And when Sakura says her last words, she says them to me.

It may not have been everything I hoped for, but we had a life together.