Serendipity | h.s

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Hi loves! I want to say that I wrote this chapter, but I didn't realize the lenght of it.

Litte spoiler for the chapter, the song up there, is the song that our babies will be dancing to. In case you wanted to listen to it while reading.

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Chemistry between people is the strangest science of all

- Bridgett Devoue

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That same day, I took care of Maria who was unwell all day after Harry left. My tongue itched to ask her, what could he have said? Why did that affect her so much? It's true that the two of them looked very close, as if they had known each other for a lifetime, but I had never heard Maria mention any Harry.

This whole situation is quite strange.

At night, while I was getting ready to sleep after a tiring day, I received his message. It didn't say anything but his name so I understood that he simply wanted to know about Maria.

I went looking for her, after seeing the state in which she left. I expected to find her in the bathroom and I was ready to comfort her if that's what she wanted or felt comfortable with me in this situation. But when I saw her, she tried to pretend that everything was fine while wiping the tears from her eyes.

I understood immediately that it wasn't something she wanted to talk about, at least not for now.

You can't defend the people you care about from all the bad things in this world, but you always have a little hope that nothing like this will happen to the ones you love. My heart squeezed to see her like this; she is the most kind and supportive person that I've been able to meet. So simple, without being attached to meaningless things, she has a pure soul and a heart of gold. After everything she's been through, a person like her deserves nothing less than happiness and tranquility.

We continued with our work, as always. But all of us who know Maria know that she was not herself. She was trying to make us think that she didn't have a storm of thoughts inside her head with fake smiles and pointless jokes, but it was evident that she was not feeling well.

So I did what she has done for me on days like these. She has been a mother to me, knows all my past and what I left behind when I moved in with Cora. She understands that I go through days when the pain in my chest becomes so unbearable that it makes me want to disappear from the face of the earth.

But those days she has been there, with her arms around me, holding me as I fall apart. The least I can do is be there for her in the same way.

I talked to my colleagues, letting them know Mary needed a break that day and they completely understood. She's a bit stubborn so it took me a while to convince her to go home, but I made it.

I accompanied her to her house, which was only a few blocks from the restaurant. On our way we had a conversation that maybe we both needed.

"Sometimes things happen in life, things that you don't understand," she said. I let her keep talking. Maybe this is what she needs, to blow off some steam, I thought. "I feel selfish for thinking this way, life has given me many blessings and the only thing I do is focus on the negative"

"Maybe it's something natural" I replied after a few seconds of silence "Maybe there are those of us who are very used to happiness that when something bad happens in our lives, the first thing we do is ask ourselves why. It's true, there are things in life that we'll probably never understand and we cannot avoid. But whatever has to happen will happen, the only thing we can do is calmly wait for the course of life and focus on the present."