Sacrifices.

Min-Jung lay on the hospital bed with her eyes closed as different thoughts kept running through her mind as she waited for the doctor to come and perform the dilation and curettage on her.

Her mother's words from the previous night had kept replaying in her head even as she thought of her relationship with Ji-Tae and how much she had loved him. She thought about how devastated she had been when she found out about her miscarriage. She thought about the night she had found out she was pregnant again and how she had cried under the shower and had promised herself to protect the child in her womb, even at the expense of her relationship with Alex.

Tears rolled down the side of her eyes, and she placed her hand over her abdomen as she thought of the joy on Selena's face when she had said she dreamt of having a little baby brother.