What You've Given Me

After a while he said,

"Laura?"

"Yeah?" I said without turning around, my eyes still closed.

"Thank you for coming back."

I opened my eyes.

Did he really just say that?

That one sentence.

So much more than any emotion he'd ever showed me in these couple of years we'd been together.

"You're welcome," I said softly.

Then closed my eyes again. And the fitful sleep I got in that night was filled with dreams of Rosalie and Jim and me.

A makeshift family only meant for my dreams.

LAURA and JIM had been together for so long and grown so comfortable with each other that there wasn't really any love in the relationship anymore.

It was as if they just beared each other's company at this point. Just living together yet passed each other. And ultimately this leads to their break up. Suddenly alone both have no clue how to be without the other.

But when Jim finds a baby abandoned in his trashcan outside his house he immediately calls for Laura's help. They both decide to foster the little baby until the custody battle with the mother is finalized and a suitable family is found.

But Laura and Jim aren't in a relationship anymore and to both of them this seems like a disaster filled with bickering and annoyance for each other. But along the way feelings that were lost and forgotten start brewing again. But it couldn't last, could it?

What will happen when the child they'd grown so attached to, the reason for them being a together, is suddenly taken away from them again?