Fireworks For Her, Prison For Him

Synopsis

My husband's first love just came back from abroad. To celebrate her return, he booked out all of Crestridge and lit up the sky with fireworks for a whole hour. Meanwhile, I was stuck outside the ICU, watching my father-in-law's vitals slip away bit by bit. Suddenly, the hospital went dark. The machines started screeching with alarms. Down the hallway, a doctor yelled at the top of his lungs, "Who the hell set off fireworks and fried the hospital's main line? Damn it. This patient could've made it!" I stared numbly at the fireworks video my husband had just sent me. The caption read, [Babe, happy New Year. Forever and always.] I called him and told him calmly, "Your dad's dead, and so is your so-called 'forever and always'."