Bianca awoke to the sound of her ringing phone. Tyler wasn't lying next to her anymore and this discovery sent her groggy mind into a panic. "Tyler" she called out to him but there was no reply, he must be downstairs she thought. She reached for her phone but had missed the call she quickly checked her call log, think that perhaps it had been Tyler calling. A 662 area code, that was an Oxford area code. Who on earth could be calling her from there, couldnt be June or her father they had the same area code but she had their numbers saved in her contact list. She got her self out of bed and started down the stairs but froze in her tracks when a strong pain radiated from her lower back and wrapped around her abdomen. She bent over and held tightly to the banister and after a few momnets the pain slowly dissapated. Bianca made her way down the stairs and into the kitchen "Tyler!" She called out into the dark and seemingly empty house, still no reply. Feelings of panic overwhelmed her, something was wrong, she could feel it in the depths of her soul. She scanned the kitchen looking for anything out of place, Tylers brief case was still on the floor where he had left it, the chess board still sitting on top. A yellow legal pad sat next to the chess board, she recognized Tylers handwriting on it. Quickly she snatched it up and began reading:
"Bianca, I didnt want to wake you or stress you out about this. Headed to Oxford, recieved word that mother is working up a real mess and I need to handle it in person. Flying into the airport at ole miss, will return no later than thursday but aiming for tomorrow. Dont worry, will call you tonight. I love you. --- Tyler"
"what in he the hell is this?" Bianca shouted to no one in her frustration. She glanced up at the clock on the microwave 5:12, all of this had happened in less than three hours. Her mind was racing, what was Barbara up too, what could possibly warrant Tylers speedy departure.
The pain in her lower back swelled again, and in the same manner as before wrapped around her abdomen tightening and aching the pain was blinding she thgre her hands on the kitchen island to steady herself and in he process knocked all of the chess peices off of the counter and onto the the slate kitchen floor. I have to calm down Bianca thought, My panic must be bringing on cotractions. After a few moments the contraction subsided. BIanca took a few deep calming breaths before begining to pick up the chess peices from the floor. "Oh no, they all broke and we didn't even get to play." She said as she plucked up broken peices, but she discovered one peice had survived the fall, a little white one. She stood up and examined it, it was the first time she had even handled the game peices, it was cold and smooth, the material felt like ceramic or maybe clay. she rolled the little statue around in her hand checking for sins of damaged but it was perfect. She opened directions that had come with the game which had been lying under the gameboard. The game peice was a bishop, she read more about it, learning that each player had two. "One bishop sits beside the queen, and one by the king" she read to herself quietly still marveling that this one figure hadnt shattered like the rest, then a contraction came on like a rolling thunder, more intens than the last two, which she had thought impossible as the tightness squeezed her abdomen she felt the gush of fluid roll down her legs and watched it puddle beneath her. "Oh my God, my water, my water broke! Hes coming!" she looked back at the little bishop she was holding in her hand and smiled, "Bishop is coming".
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