Be With You

EPILOGUE

few months before

''I-I'm sorry...'' I utter. 

For everything that I have done and for the things I didn't say to you. I'm being stupid, not knowing it sooner. I messed up your life, your peaceful life.

''Sure. Goodnight and thank you, Grant.'' it's her last words before she disappeared like a bubble, even her mother is not in their house nor even in her work. They're not here anymore.

She doesn't need me in her life anymore. I'm afraid, that time is the last day I'm seeing her. Her face, her voice, her foods, her personality and our child. I'm afraid, I'll be not able to take care of her, them.

Now, I'll be not afraid anymore. I'll change that, I'll take care of them, I'll take care both of them even just from afar.... again. And I'm gonna make it happened.

fourth month

I'm rounding my patients when a nurse approach me. "Doc.,"

"Don't drink or eat because you have appointment to have surgery today. Okay?" I said to my patient. I look at the nurse who called me. 

I greeted her with a smile. "Yes?"

"Meron pong naghahanap sa inyo sa front desk,"

"Sure. Susunod na lang ako. Thanks," 

I look at my watch and it's already lunch. I can't take it but to smile when I remember of her. Is it her who's finding me? She's here now? I think it's okay to dream, right? even the impossible. 

Dala-dala ko ang aking ngiting pumunta sa front desk para harapin ang nag hahanap sa 'kin. Ngunit di ko inaasahan ang taong makakaharap ko. It's been a month now since I last seen her mother and I'm guilty not seeing her. 

"Ma'am," I smile at her but it's an awkward smile, but then she smiles at me, genuinely. She looks like her too when she smiles. 

"We need to talk," my smile faded as my nervous went up. I didn't expect she'll talk to me, I didn't see it coming. They're not in the neighborhood anymore, did they come back?

I made a mistake and I want to make it right, we live in the world full of mistakes but there's always a way to make them right. 

We went to the garden rooftop here in the building. I bought two coffee that she might like. Seriousness in the atmosphere envelop us. 

"Grant, I know you love my daughter and I know you're the father of my daughter's child but please, be there for her. Because I can't take care her, both of then since the hospital became more hectic. I can't have a chance to go home. I don't want to take the risk of my daughter's life even more," I bit my lip when her tears started falling. She look at me.