Short Stories

Merry Christmas.

Originally created and published by
@farenheits on 8th January 2021.
for better experience listen to the audio while reading the story.

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It was a really a hard day for her, she got a client who is guilty for murdering.

'Hey i think i found an evidence to tell the Jury that he is innocent!' said one of her interns.

'Good catch, forward that to me and all of you can take the rest of the day off and Merry Christmas! she replies.

She didn't like the idea of Christmas Eve because she must sit in one table with her family. She doesn't really get along with her family but when she met him Christmas Eve was the one thing she always waited. Every Christmas Eve she always has to wait for his shift in the station to end but sometimes fire can just happened anytime. It happened once on 2013 when she was waiting for him to come home, then the alarm at the station went on. He had to postpone their dinner a little bit late but she said it doesn't matter because the fun part was waiting for him to come back home.

*****

'Baby, are you okay?' He asked her.

She then replied 'No, th- this case is really haunting me.'

She was always having nightmares when she was handling a really bad case.
He never understood why she could have a poker face on the court or even everyday when she's handling these crazy cases.

'You better go back to sleep, if you want to save people's life.' She said to him.

*****

This Christmas Eve was really cold and windy. She started the fireplace and sat in front of it while sipping a hot chocolate and wrapped her self with a blanket.

She feels nostalgic and she grabs her photo album from the shelves.

*****

'Baby, i got into the fire department woohoo!' He was really excited to be a fire fighter. His dad was a fire fighter that's why he always wanted to be one.

'Baby, why are you so quite?' He asked.

'I- I'm just scared the idea of you being a fire fighter. You are the first responder.' Then she cried a little because she was really scared she will lose him.

'Why do you want to be a fire fighter other then becoming a legacy, you have another reason, right?'

'I want to be able to save many lives. For the fact that we are the first responder, I like the feeling when you save someone or their beloved ones and they started to hold both of your hands and says 'Thank you for saving my/his/her live, you made a difference in my life' this means a lot to me and this makes me want to save more lives.'

*****

She always takes many photos as possible in every event. She started to laugh and remember that was a good time.

She turns to the next page and found a photo of her in her law firm. It was the day, she has her own law firm.

*****
'Aren't you afraid of death?' She asked to him curiously.

'Are you scared?'

'I asked you first. Answer it first and then I'll answer it.' She replies with a little frown.

'Okay okay. Well, you see as a human being of course I'm scared of death but as a fire fighter, we should help other's who are in need first. So, no. I'm not afraid of dying. I'm afraid of leaving you all alone after I die.'

*****

She closes the album and sit on the couch while turning the tv on. She turns on the news channel.

*****

It was 2013 and she was waiting for him to come home. She was cooking in the kitchen and also preparing the dinner table.

At around 7 Pm he called her to inform to her that they have to postpone the dinner because there was a really big fire in the sky scraper.

'But your station isn't even near that district?' she asked.
'Yeah, the fire is really huge that's why the Chief told us to come and help. I'll be home soon I promise.'
'Okay, be safe. I love you.'
'I love you too.' Then he hanged up the call.

*****

A notification appears from her phone because she was bored from watching the news she begin to scroll her timeline and turned off the tv and listened to her and his favorite song, Sweet Disposition by Temper Trap.

All of the sudden when she was randomly scrolling thru her voice mail, she found one voice mail that she didn't even recognize.

The voice mail was sent on December 24th 2013 at 9 Pm.

*****

'Hi baby. I'm sorry I could not make it back to home. The fire is very huge. I tried to call you but maybe you are still cooking so here I am voice mailing you. My biggest fear is going to come, sooner or later. I am sorry, I am truly sorry, I have to leave you alone. I'm scared of leaving you alone. Promise me, if you found someone later and he loves you very much and treats you good, please fall in love with him and then get married with him. I don't want you to be alone. I love you so much Baby and Merry Christmas.'

*****

'I love you too Baby.' she wipes her tears and started to smile a little 'and Merry Christmas too.'