Path of Sin

Garrett Mallory Scott

People take everyday life for granted. Food, comfort, luxuries, yes even the middle class, so down on itself for its bad run of luck doesn't even consider that it is part of the 1% of privledged society.
You are one such of those people. On a remarkable sunny day in a brand new city far away from your few friends and family whom you are no longer in contact with you leave a recent interview with exciting prospects, the first in months. The company wants you to come intern for them for one year, afterwards you will be given your dream job, with enough pay to live a long happy life. This is very excellent, as the city has fallen into a terrible period of unemployment and overpopulation - jobs are far and few between.
Your significant other also has news when you return home. Someone is pregnant. Whether you, your partner or perhaps a third party who wants you to take the child. You tell your partner of the job you've got and you spend the night celebrating both pieces of news.
Six months go by. The internship has kept you unbelievable busy and the situation has developed thus:
Firstly, you are working for them so much that you do not have time to get another job or be at home often. The pay is low, until you get your full job you only have enough to pay for two people to live, and just barely in the worst conditions, even with your partner's support. Finally if you quit at any time you will not have the chance to attempt this opportunity again.
As you come home you hear a terrible noise from the bathroom. You rush to find your significant other on the floor covered in blood.
At the hospital you learn your significant other has been terribly hurt. They will need a long recovery process and are in a coma. Your calls to friends and family, the few you both have, are in vain. Most don't answer and those who do are far too troubled to help you at all. As you sit next to their bed comforting them the nurse brings up the painful subject of the pregnancy. You have limited options.
The baby is due in three months, consulting with the hospital you learn this is your last possible chance to consider an abortion, which could be risky. Even if you were to quit the internship and care for the child your prospects for another job to pay for all of you are difficult, how will your provide for your partner's healthcare, never mind the child, it's education and the uncertain future you now have from committing to the internship so far. Finally, your last hope of adoption has ended terribly: due to the recent crisis all the agencies are unable to support any more children. Whether you, your partner or a third party are the pregnant one, there is no alternative to the following choices:
You could abort the child. This will save you the time to focus on you and your partner.
Abandon your internship to help your partner raise the child.
Abandon your partner and the child.
Abandon your partner but try to raise the child.