Wish me Goodbye

Chapter 6

     After a few hours hanging around the surgery room. It's finally finished, the surgery was a success!

I hesitated opening my eyes. There I see a white, clean ceiling. The light shining the room as the doctors stood beside the bed.

I couldn't believe what I'm seeing... People, walls, doors, floors, lights, colors, and any other else.

In my mind, it felt abstract. But as I see everything close up, it felt so surreal..

I sit up from the bed and look around. "Mike?" I blurted out.

The doctors give each other a sad look. Turning to each other before me. One of them gave me a piece of paper. I stared at it in confusion.

"I haven't seen a paper since forever!" I blurted out once more, as I took the paper from him.

I unfolded the paper thoroughly, trying to reminisce the old days when I was only a child.

I usually make letters for my parents before, and so I would fold the papers before giving it to them. It was such a happy life, before the sudden blindness which haunted my life.

The letter started with a happy note.

'Dear Sky,

It's me, Mike, you're goofy, overprotective, dumb boyfriend. It's finally time for you to see things after, how many years has it been? 15? 22? I lost count-'

The letter continues on and on about our amazing adventure. I even shared it with the people inside the room!

He once described my eyes. "Emerald green eyes that would glow in the darkness," he said. And he showed a picture of me and him.

He has one too! And he looked handsome than what I have thought in my mind.

But as the letter goes on, it turned south, straight ahead.

'So. This is it. I couldn't even say goodbye to you properly. You should already figure out who gave you those eyes-'

And that sentence struck my heart. It shattered into millions of pieces, not even gonna bother to pick it all up and put it back together.

He suffered for me.

He didn't bother to hang out with his brother cause of me.

He was too bullied at his work place.

He sacrificed for me.

In the end, it was him that gave his eyes for me.

I finally teared up and cried. I even bothered to read the other parts of the letter. I asked the doctors if where he is, they only wanted me to read. It came from him, so I should respect it.

'Yeah... Now I'm also crying. You're gonna laugh at me- I know you!'

It didn't.

'I'm sorry. I should have told you everything. I just didn't want you to suffer anymore, it just made me hurt seeing how Mark treated you like you're not special to me. Like he doesn't care for me and my property.

When someone donated their eyes for you, I was jolly to hear about it. It was the most joyous memory we could have created together. But when they didn't pass it to you, it was the scariest part of my life. Even one of the saddest...

So when I saw you by the window, I made up my mind. I'll donate my eyes for you. That'll show my love and affection for you, right? Well that may be.

But I did it for another reason. It's time for us to part, it's time for me to leave, I can't marry you Sky-'

I threw the paper away, I didn't want to read the other parts of the letter. Everything written in it is nonsense!

It's not real! I know Mike would never leave me... It's not like him to.

One of the doctors pat my back for comfort. "I'm sorry," they said, and continued to comfort me. All of them did.

Instead of being sad and mourning about it. I became madder than ever.

All he said, all those promises he kept, he couldn't even hold it in his heart! He knows how broken I would be but he continued his plan anyway.

He once made me the happiest person in life, to a vengeful and maddest human being.

Maybe I will move on.

I'll turn my life around. I don't need him or his abusing brother. I can finally see. That's all that matters.

And after many months in the hospital, I was released. At the very beginning of the letter, Mike wrote the address of our home together, maybe that's where I'll see him.

I hailed a taxi and got in. The ride was smooth and entertaining. The outside world is great, a lot of people walking on the sidewalks, they wore different clothing, and have different features.

I didn't realise that I had already arrived and payed the driver.

The apartment looked big than, again, what I had imagined.

I entered to see no one inside, but stuff that I have been living with about. I couldn't tell that the place changed or not, but I feel like it did.

The place looks isolated. But there are still some stuff left.

The closet looked like it was rummaged, the closet was left untidy.

That's one more to fix after the living room. But after cleaning all this stuff. I'm gonna start a brand new life.

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It has been 3 years since my sight was restored. I have also been seeing someone. Someone that I knew for 5 years already, even with my disability of blindness.

My one and only doctor from before, Doctor Jake Ferry. He is 6 years older than me, but that's not a problem for me now.

We live in the same apartment as me and Mike used to live together.

But like I said 3 years ago. I'll move on. And I kept that promise deep in my heart unlike someone.

Jake is a busy doctor, many patients to take care of, you know- I'm happy to have him with me. He usually takes care of me, he doesn't have any abusive family members and is a lighthearted guy.

Even though I had moved on. I still wonder where Mike is and if I'll ever meet him now. 3 years... It'd be impossible to meet him. He may be out of the country by now, living a new life.

I didn't say this is a 'see you again soon,' but I finally said to myself that this is a 'goodbye.'

I will no longer have any types of relationships with Mike. Boyfriend or friend to be exact.

I sat on the couch as usual. Like the past 3 years, I felt happy to finally see a TV in my sight. And what these new programs are now. I even watched my old cartoon series and movies before I turned... Blind, as I have already mentioned it a bunch of times.

Jake will be home shortly after the news, I'll have time to watch something else.

But by the time I was about to switch to a different channel, the news had announced that a dead body was found near our street.

Poorly, the man was walking around the buildings until some stranger stabbed him in front of many people. The man was covered in black and not everyone saw the face of the killer.

And what happened next shocked me to the core.

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"Not everyone has a
happy ending."

-Unknown

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(I put unknown cause I don't
know who made the quote. But as I
mentioned last chapter, this was suppose
to be the Epilogue, but change of
plans ¦> The next chapter will be the Epilogue!)