Meanwhile, as the children were happily playing in their backyard, Halley was perplexed as to why their parents took so long to go out.
She thought they could have missed the time again.
"Abbey, you keep an eye on Dan first, and I'll just check on mama and papa inside," Halley stated.
"All right, I've been hungry na nga," Abbey quipped.
Thus Halley proceeded to go to the kitchen, and she was halfway there when she overheard her parents conversing.
She didn't quite understand most of what it was they were discussing, so she came closer to hearken to their conversations and moreover peered attentively to check on them, but she was startled to find her mama sobbing.
Halley's curiosity grew, and she wanted to comprehend what they were saying but not in a way that made her appear to be meddling.
"Are you serious, Vince? You have done that?"
"I don't want to, but I have no option."
"But you didn't even consider it mi—"
"Tricia, you said you'd listen to me."
"Yes, but don't you think that went against all that you value, as well as everything I believe?"
"I have to do it, I can't compromise yours and our daughter's lives over her; this is why I'm meaning to say this to you."
"But Vince, that does not imply y—"
"I have to do it, Trish."
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FanfictionHalley Gomez had spent her entire life escaping her nightmares thus that she'd never remembered them, but she had no notion that those flashes of her contained a significant part of her past. Abbey Martinez, experiencing hypertrophic cardiomyopathy...