SHIT. SHIT SHIT... she thought.Michelle was suddenly nervous that Ethan decided to date her in their garden. It felt surreal that the man would do something like that, thinking that he was still suffering from his conditions. However, he did impress her and she couldn’t help the tears to form on both sides of her eyes.“I hope you didn’t mind having dinner with me here outside,” Ethan said, sounded a bit nervous too.Michelle shook her head. She didn’t mind at all. In fact, she loved it. It was heart-felt moment. After all those miserable events that happened a few months back, she thought they both needed a romantic dinner; they both needed to unwind and do something to rekindle their missing romance.“I don’t mind...” she said in a hush, swallowing so hard as she stared at him dreamily. “It’s quite a surprise but I love it.”“I’m glad you do.” Ethan pursed his lips, as if the man was trying to hide his smile but failed as Michelle noticed it.“Alright!” Marsha clapped her hands. “T
"GREAT NEWS! All of his laboratory results show that he is perfectly fit to undergo the surgery!" Selene Steinfield squealed the moment she entered the VIP room of the hospital they were at.Michelle was sitting on the couch next to the hospital bed where Ethan was sitting. Happiness could be seen in her in-laws’ expressions, even in Ethan and Marsha. She was happy, too. However, she could never hide the nervousness engulfing her chest at that very moment.Ethan would undergo an eye surgery by the next day. Michelle could hardly sleep thinking about how the surgery would go. She was afraid deep within. What if the surgery fails? It would surely cause real emotional damage to her husband, and she didn’t have the nerve to see it happen.She glanced at Ethan and saw the delight radiating in his marble gray eyes. He was excited and hopeful. He never stopped talking about her how he wished to see the colourful world. He never stopped telling her how he was looking forward to the surgery. H
ETHAN could feel the cold lingering over his skin. His family already left. The only person who would stay with him was his mother, who then went out to talk to his doctors regarding the surgery that would happen the next day.He was damn nervous, extremely nervous to the extent that he felt as if his ribcage would explode as he could really feel the loud beating of his heart. He hadn’t felt such emotions before, even after going through a lot of things before he got to be with his real family.Truth be told, he wanted to be okay. He wanted to be able to see, so much, that even though the idea of a surgery scared him, he’d push it through any way.Seeing the darkness wasn’t cool. He just got used to it, but it didn’t mean that he liked it. There were no words that would be better to describe his situation other than the word: worse. He wanted to see his daughter, but he couldn’t. He wanted to see his wife and memorize every feature of her face, but he couldn’t. The blindness he was in
HE COULD feel a sense of nervousness creeping over his skin as he woke up that morning. A week had passed, and that day would be the very day that he’d be able to find out whether the surgery was really a success or not. Ethan clasped his hands together beneath the duvet, deeply praying that it would turn out as well as he’d wanted to see for such a long time already.The doctor came in right after he had his breakfast. His parents were present in the room. Michelle and Marsha weren’t there to witness the result of the surgery, as his wife needed to be well rested. The woman had called him earlier and told him how she wanted to visit him in the hospital, but given her pregnancy, she was advised to stay at home. He promised he would update her, though."How are you doing, Mr. Steinfield?" The doctor asked, sounding too optimistic.He smiled despite how anxious he was. "I’m doing very well. The nurses are taking care of me.""Did you feel any strange feeling or sting in your eyes?"He s
"GOSH, you have to calm down, Mich!" Megan said.Michelle shook her head, pacing back and forth in the living room. Her mother-in-law called an hour ago, saying that they would send Ethan back home. Selene did not mention whether the result of the surgery turned out well or not, so she could not calm down a bit even though the people around her were telling her to do so.Megan and Andrew came to visit as they were excited to find out how the surgery went. All of them were in the living room, waiting for her husband to arrive. Holding her pregnant belly, she didn’t stop walking around, getting very impatient as she wanted to know how the surgery turned out for Ethan."I don’t understand why Mom didn’t tell me how it went," she said and stopped in front of them, biting her fingernails. "Do you think it went bad and that’s why she couldn’t tell me?""We can’t assume, Mich," her father said, sipping on his coffee."Your Dad is right. We can’t assume unless we see it personally," Andrew ad
AFTER A MONTH, "WILL you be fine without us?" Michelle looked at her father. At first, she thought that the old man was teasing her, seeing how he curled his lips downward, but she realized that he was actually worried, seeing the worry in his eyes. Still smiling, she took a deep breath and softened her expression as she looked at her father, who she hadn't realized had become more frail as time passed. She was so busy with her life that she wasn’t able to watch out for her father. Distracted by what life had thrown her way, she didn’t notice that her father was really getting older. "I’m going to be fine." She checked over her shoulder and found Ethan, who was fixing a chandelier’s light bulb in the living room. "Ethan will be here, so you shouldn’t worry that much. I hope you and Marsha would enjoy hanging out." Her old man laughed heartily, shaking his head. He and Marsha would go to the school where they enrolled the little girl. It was going to be Marsha’s first day in her ne
THE CAR was filled with her whimpers, cries and screams. Her nails dug over the leather seat in the passenger seat. She was lying down there, making a few deep breaths to relax herself but the great amount of pain consuming her entire body was making her ballistic and a mess.Beads of sweat had formed on her forehead. Her legs and belly were both getting numb as the minutes passed by. Ethan was driving the car so fast, completely alarmed by her situation. He was panicking so much, and so even she was in great pain, she reminded him to drive carefully as she didn’t want them to get into some road accident.“Oh, my God...” she murmured, crying. “I think I’m going to die. He’s coming out. Faster, Ethan!”“Uhm, you just told me to slow down a bit,” Ethan said nervously.“Fuck. I swear this will be the last time you’d be able to impregnate me!” she screamed on the top of her lungs and made a push before she took a few deep breaths again. “I really swear to God—““Calm down, Mich! We’re on
The ring of her cell phone jolted her awake. With a forehead crease, Michelle rose up and quickly turned off the alarm on her cell phone. It was already 6 o’clock in the morning. She hadn’t been able to sleep for at least six hours, but she had to get up and follow the "mom on call" schedule to better take care of her little sunshine—none other than Eionn Marcus.It had been what? A month had passed when she gave birth to their second child, and Michelle could still feel the excitement getting through her whenever she would walk into the nursery room, open the curtained windows to let the sunlight lighten up the entire solemn place, and wake up her little one by planting kisses on his fluffy cheeks.It had been her morning routine. She was strictly following the "mom on call" schedule because it wasn’t only giving her much time to bond with her baby but also making sure that Marcus’ health was always a top priority."Good morning, my little sunshine..." she greeted her baby with a hea