Stay (Topp Dogg) {Published on Amazon}

Part 36

Thursday

Around another hour passes and they take me back to my room. In my room, they bring me the two cribs. I know that one has Emilia and another has the dead girl.

They give me the still born first. I shake as Byung Joo hands me the baby. He's already started to cry just by looking at her and my stomach drops at the sight of it all.

Then he hands her to me. I feel a tingle at my nose as I looked down at her little face. It's so beautiful and perfect. The chubby roundness of it all. I can't feel her breathing, but she doesn't look dead. She still looks as if she's alive and living.

I can't hold it in anymore and I squeeze her tight to my chest. I cry harder than I've ever cried before. Her face is soft against the nape of my neck. All I want is for her to stop crying and someone to tell me that it's all a joke.

Before I give her back to Byung Joo, I kiss her forehead and hold her against my body again. When Byung Joo takes her back, he holds her like he would hold his own. Then he lays her back down in her crib and a nurse takes her away.

Byung Joo and I are left alone with Emilia. Yano has disappeared somewhere so I'm alone with him. I like it. I like it a lot.

Byung Joo picks up Emilia and walks over with her. She's sleeping already in her tightly wrapped blanket, looking as precious as ever.

Then he hands her to me. I gasp when I feel her breathing. I can feel heat radiating from her body. When I look at her face, I know I love her.

I kiss her forehead and call her name. "Emilia," I say. I rub her soft little cheek, hoping she'll wake up.

Then her eyes flutter open suddenly and she opens her mouth widely. Byung Joo and I giggle together and look at her half open eyes.

"Let her sleep, she's tired," Byung Joo says.

I sigh and hold her back against my chest. "Fine, I'll let her sleep," I say.

I move over in my bed to give space for Byung Joo. I pat the space beside me and he sits down. We all lay there together, like a big happy family.

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