Epilogue

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     What happened next made me shock. My heart pounding a million beats and sped up its pace as it pounds in my chest.

The tear rolling down on my cheek to my lap and my eyes had a blurry vision. The TV is not clear to see no more, I shouted the word 'No' as I see the dead man on the TV.

The man that loved me, the one man that took care of me. It was none other than Jake.

I banged my head on the wall furiously. Just when I heard the door open. Someone called out to me. "Skylar!"

They ran and stopped me from doing so. They wrapped me around their arms and comforted me. The same comfort Jake and Mike used to do so. "Skylar.." They croaked out.

It was Peri. Peri is a sister of Jake. Was a sister of Jake. Now that he is out of the world. Out of my world in life.

"Everyone keeps leaving me!" I shout in a fit of rage inside me. "First Mike, then Jake! Am I a bad person?!"

"No... No..." Peri repeated as she cradled me in her arms.

This continued on for hours, Peri and Jake's parents called and saw the news. They rushed to the hospital after hearing about it.

Peri encouraged me to see Jake. But I can't see him. Especially after banging my head on the wall because of him. When he was also the person who saved my life back 3 years ago, yes, not just Mike, but Jake too.

2 of them were my precious boys. Now that they're out of my life... I don't know how to believe in love anymore.

Everything I love just poofed into thin air. My parents died in a car crash, Mike went blind for me and is nowhere to be seen in my life anymore, some man went cahoots and killed my one and only. Peri comforted me still as she sat on the floor, cradling me in her arms.

"God hates me, I shouldn't have lived." I said in defeat, the voice inside me tells it.

After many moments of Peri encouraging me to, I gave up and went to see Jake. He lay on the hospital bed, lifeless. A blanket hovering on him. The only part of his body was visible from the covered blanket was his hand.

On one of his fingers was a wedding ring. We planned of getting married after the end of the month.

Like what Mike promised before that he broke. We planned getting engaged when I can finally see. But he left me and wrote a small letter.

Now Jake has finally left me as well.

"Hey Jake..." I started. Talking to him like he is only unconscious. "You'll wake up soon, for me, right?"

"Sky-" Peri said, but I raised a hand on her.

"I know you will... You're just in a deep sleep! You've been in many troubles and you're definitely exhausted by now, I hope you'll have a nice nap." I removed the blanket on his head and kissed him lightly on the lips, before leaving the room.

That's where I lost it...

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It had been days, weeks, months after everything. I didn't bother to see anyone right now.

I decided that I should move out and live in another country. I said my goodbyes to Jake's family, to my coworkers, to my friendly boss, to anyone that I met back in my 3 years of sight life.

I even visited Jake's grave. I couldn't handle seeing him deep down underground. But I kept all the memories in my heart.

"This is the last time I'll get to see you.." I whispered, "I have to move on again." I chuckled wittingly.

"Thanks for helping me back when I was only blind too, you and Mike. There are many secrets that are kept in this world, but what goes on must go on. There's no turning back in life, and as you know me well too, I like to rewind everything. We could've gotten married, like what Mike and I have before. But accidents really need to happen."

A moment of silence dropped by and I stared at a stone with his name and birthdate to death date engraved in it. I grinned, blurry vision comes to sight.

"I'll see you again!" And forced a wide smile.

I then left the graveyard to attend my flight in the airport. And flew to Singapore for a new start...

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"That's when I have you and you're father!"

"That story was sad..." Said the crying child who is sitting on the floor. They stood up and ran to wrap their arms around my leg.

"I didn't know you suffered so much, Mom!" They cried.

Then a chuckle was heard by the doorway. "Like I said, you're mom's a tough one! That's why I married her." Said Joe.

Joe Hermes, a used to be cashier in a public market. And is now a business man of a huge company.

"Oh shush! Anyways, it's time to sleep Gerard." I said to my son.

He unwrapped his arms and went to bed quickly as possible.

I tucked him in and kissed him softly on his forehead. "Goodnight, my little knight."

I went to turn off the light, but his hand stopped me from doing. "Yes?" I asked him.

"Before you do, what happened to that Mike guy? What was in that letter?" He asked, his face is already looking tired.

It's hard to come up an answer. "To be completely honest with you sweetie, I don't know..."

I turned off the light and walked to the door. Joe stood there for me, and saw the whole thing. "You don't know what was in that letter?" He also asked.

I sighed deeply, in short, I'm too tired to answer anymore questions after that long story. "I don't know. I didn't want to finish it anyway."

But I could vividly remember that I packed it with me when I moved in Singapore. But it maybe crumpled by now.

And so the story ends here, I drift off to sleep with Joe by my side. Already for 4 years in since we met, and 2 years in marriage.

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"There's still hope in life,
you just gotta wait for the light."

-MidnxghtLuna_Fxrever

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So this is it. Its finally finished!

I actually have a bonus chapter for y'all, but I'm gonna wait for the right moment for it to drop.

I hope you had fun reading this story. There are many settings I changed about it.

The story was suppose to end when Skylar saw the news about the dead man. The dead man was suppose to be Mike, who was looking for Skylar after 3 years. And that's where it was suppose to end with Jake comforting Skylar instead of Peri.

It's a short story, you don't get to bond with the characters much, and I'm sorry for that. But sometimes, this story is inspired to the people who have disabilities.

We should be kind to them and show them care. I added Mark, Mike's brother, in the story for a reason. People sometimes tease and bully people with disabilities because of it.

It's nonsense, I tell you! And that's when I was heavily inspired to do this story. Suppose to be sad, but I only made Sky suffer in this.

But I still hope you enjoyed this story! I will see you all soon, bye!!!

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