The Marriage Break

Last part: We dreamed this before

Adam unfortunately knew what was happening and he knew it very well. He was no longer the eight-year-old boy, but he thought of poor Daniel, who was one year younger than he was when his father suffered the first attack. He protected his little brother, who was crying scared. When the ambulance arrived, his mother left with them and he kept trying to calm Daniel and explain everything.

The same waiting room in the same hospital, and the same unfortunate situation. When Regina was informed that her husband was alive thanks to her again, she only asked that the final result be the same as the previous time. She just wanted to have her husband by her side again. But this time fate didn't play in Arthur's favor. That Monday, in the hospital's emergency room, Arthur stopped fighting and he left in peace.

Regina didn't smile again since that day. Giving the news to the boys was the most difficult thing that Regina Thomson had to do; and what a difficult thing she had touched. That night she cried on the bathroom floor like that time, only this occasion Arthur didn't come to comfort her. The brunette returned to her empty bed, and to the loneliness that had once housed her before. She continued working and dedicating herself to her children in body and soul.

"Mom. Why don't you go out with my aunt Sarah and her friends? It's her birthday!" Adam was worried about the loneliness in which his mother was immersed.

"They are going to go to a club and I don't feel in a mood, that's all!" She finished preparing Daniel's breakfast. "We will already celebrate the weekend, and I'm helping to organize a meeting here at home". The brunette affirmed.

"You know that those meetings are only for you to discuss politics with our grandfather". The young man rolled his eyes. He really wanted his mother to be happy.

"They are so boring that even video games bore me when you talk". Daniel supported his older brother.

"What day is this? The day of messing with our mother? ... Go to school, which is almost over and I will not allow you to be late..." She hugged her children, and she gave them their lunches. "You are so big". He stared at Adam for a few seconds.

"Don't be sad mom, I will never leave you". Adam wanted to keep her from crying again. "Think of yourself... You are very alone and that worries me, worries us". He pointed to Daniel, who stood by his side supporting him.

By the time Adam finished school, he had decided to study medicine, largely because of the illness his father had suffered and what they had suffered. However, what Adam was most passionate about, was the way that his mother had treated his father at the time, and he felt the vocation to help and heal others. He had applied in several universities and he had been admitted to all.

Regina couldn't be more proud of her son. Little Daniel, with ten years old, he was getting very good grades, but he did say that he would be a great lawyer like his father and mother. The same as Elsa, who had become a beautiful young woman, and was about to study law at Harvard. Elsa was Regina's spouse.

Since Sarah had married Vera's father, the young woman had also developed a passion for the arts, and Sarah was her mentor. They worked together in the most prestigious art gallery in the city, and were always in important events. Everything seemed to have meshed perfectly, except for Regina's loneliness because of the death of Arthur.

Letting her son go to college was as painful as her husband told her that it would be, but even worse. Adam had decided to opt for the University of California, and that implied more than four thousand kilometers away. His biologist mother's family, Mariam, was there. Regina had always encouraged him to share with them, because Regina never wanted to be an imposition for the boy. But the brunette never thought he would decide to study there.