PART 18
I LOVE YOU TILL THE END:
NOW
Brain tumors and the hospital are not my tea, Amelia's mind going crazy. She tried to hide her nervousness, to swallow the lump in her throat. "Hey Luke parker, how are you?" she asked.
"Hey Amy" he smiles.
"so, the last speech"
"shut up Luke" she laughs nervously. He laughed innocently, and this is a kind of laugh that makes your heart scream. Pretending sucks.
She moves the chair and placed it as near to the bed as possible. Holds his hand, she spoke, "tomorrow this weekend, I'm going to the aquarium, our favorite. Are you coming?" He looks at the ceiling, pretends to think. "I'll think about it"
"do me a favor"
"what?"
"read the book for, it is the bag"
"no, I came to talk, not babysitting. Maybe tomorrow"
"what if there is no tomorrow?"
"Amy please"
She throws his hand with mild force, turned around as she swallowed the sobs. "cut the puppy face, I'll read-only for 10 minutes, okay" she walks towards the shelf he mentioned before, it is her diary. Why the hell he reads every time.
"what page you want"
"our second kiss well last kiss for me" Luke meant it. His love for her never changed, after all.
"Luke stops with the emotional talk. I know you are gonna be fine after surgery" she scared, she knows her life will be difficult, never thought of the significant loss. She reads
After the trial, I feel insecure everywhere. But got a relief that the monster never uses my body. What he did to Savannah.
"I said that joyful part, not this," Luke interrupt her. She also relieved cause it's her dark times.
When he came to my room, I was dressed in PJ.'s; he sat near me. We both remained silent. Luke cleared his throat. As he starts "are you okay" somehow these three words make me vulnerable. And we talked all night. We are not asleep. I enjoy being safe with his warmth. Past midnight I began back to my whatever normal state words are found in my mind. That when it happened, we kissed. Now I got it: butterflies are real when you kiss the real partner.
She laughed at her words, looked at Luke, who truly reminiscing his memories.
"earth to Luke, here I'm here" she waves her hands.
Machine's rhythmic sound is the only noise in the room. Both remain silent no one dares to speak up.
Then, He broke the silence and said, "I want to tell you something". Her wall of resistance broke by his words.
"no, I know already", her voice cracks a little.
"no, you don't"
"yes, I do", her vision blurred by tears, she smiled.
"you don't know that I love you", he lifted the weight he's been holding for the whole life. "I said I know," she sobbed.
"forever is an illusion Amy"
"now I regret that not dating or telling you anything"
"no please, stay calm just sleep, Luke"
"do you?" he asked curiously.
"I do," she said. Then she added "differently" placed a peck on his forehead. And left the room, wishing this evening never happened.
He is truly happy, without a doubt. Death is not scaring him anymore; his long-term regrets are no longer regret. He feels nothing but peace right now.
At the café, Marshall is at the entrance holding Mathew, waiting for Mary. She came with a stone face. She told Marshall to take care of Mathew and she would call her after some work; she kissed Mathew's cheek and drove to the bar with Marshall's car.
10 percent possibility thereafter successful surgery, but what will happen after 90 percent,
Marshall doesn't know Luke very well, but she knows what he meant to Mary. At 8 o'clock, Marshall video called her, then Mathew was so adamant that he wants to hold the phone. Mathew said mama mama mama alone.
"you cut the call, Mathew" she shouted out of frustration. After the third ring, she picked up. "Hey, mom" she giggled like a child.
"Are you drunk? Can't you stand straight?" Marshall worried.
"mama dancing" Mathew excited because he never saw her dancing like that.
"Are you drunk?"
"yes mommy, there is a 30 percent possibility to get LUKE back"
"I don't want to hear anything from the hospital. So do that thing for me. I stay alone in the hotel tonight"
"wait, Mary don't cut the" before she completes "bye Mathew" Amelia cut the phone.
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