Second Chance

She Ran Away

"I'm sorry but you can't abort it"

"Why can't I abort it?"

"It is risky now that the babies is ten weeks old"

"Isn't there any other way?"

"No"

"But I still want to abort them"

"You can't.."

"That's what I want!" She flared at the insisting doctor.

Eliza gave the doctor sign to leave. The doctor nodded and left.

Eliza sat close to Sylvia and said:

"Why don't you want to keep the babies?"

"I can't afford them to the best schools, they don't have a father and I also don't have a home" she sighed as her voice went low.

Holding her hand assuringly, she said:

"Don't worry about that, don't you think it would be too brutal to abort those cutie babies, we can take care of the babies together"

"Uh?" Sylvia thought she didn't mean what she said.

"Yes, I want to take care of your babies with you"

Looking at her deeply, she realized she was from a wealthy home because of the brand clothes she wore.

"She must be rich" Sylvia thought. Sylvia was not the type that would try to curry favor from those wealthy people.

Thinking about it she wondered why she would want to help her for no good reason.

"She later get tired of me and dump me. She may leave me all by herself to take care of the babies after they have been born, she must be one of those rich ladies that promised but never fulfilled them" Sylvia thought.

She nodded and smiled that it would be difficult for someone to read her thoughts.

"Are you keeping the child?"

"Yes" Sylvia lied.

"Good! let me inform the doctor" she said as a smile appeared on her face.

Eliza ran out to tell the doctor leaving Sylvia behind.

After some minutes a nurse was sent to give her food.
Getting there, she realized that the patient was not there. She had escaped.

She ran to Eliza who was busy talking to the doctor!

"Dr. Ross! We can't find the patient!"

"What!" Eliza yelled in surprise.

"Ask the security guards! We need to find her!"

Eliza checked her ward but realized she wasn't there truly. she checked the toilet but she wasn't there, she noticed something. She found the little window opened.

"That is where she escaped! she would be around here"

Passing through the window swiftly, she got there down and found her footsteps. She followed her footsteps and ran faster as she was trained in the Red Scar's clan.

The hospital was in chaos, the security guards searched for her but no one could see traces of her. If Carlos could come back and find out, he would close the hospital. No one was willing to see his wrath.

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Sylvia was already on the streets. She had left the hospital but was still around there. She was weak and couldn't run more than that.

"I hope they don't see me" she muttered to herself.

Soon, she felt the urge to vomit again.
She remembered she was pregnant. She sighted a pharmacy in distance.

Quickly she ran towards there.
Reaching there, she met a young boy who was about sixteen.

"Hey! Do you have any drugs for aborting babies"

"Uh! Yes which one do you want" the boy said but he couldn't stop smiling. He thought Sylvia was beautiful and he wondered why she need a abortive drug.

Sylvia didn't know anything about aborting babies. So she simply said:

"Any one you have"

"Alright" he said then gave her pills.
Sylvia couldn't help but feel disgust with the pill scent.

"Money?"

"I don't have money, can you please pay?" she begged.

There was no sign of reluctance. He smiled like a lovestruck fool and said:

"Of course Miss, you can get your drugs here for free" He preferred to pay for the drugs because he thought she was too beautiful. Well, Sylvia was like a elder sister to him. To her he was still a kid.

"Thanks a lot" She said then left the pharmacy.

Sylvia was about to swallow the pill, then a hand abruptly hit her's and the pill fell to the ground.

Eliza appeared. She had seen Sylvia from distance in the pharmacy. She roughly guessed that she had bought a abortive drug. She quickly fastened pace and stopped her.

"Why would you do that?" Sylvia asked.

"You can't abort it"

Sylvia sat down in despair and buried her face in her palms.

"I can't take care of them! They have no father, I can't learn to be a good mother, I never had one, I'm just poor beggar living on the streets!" She cried.

Sitting close to her, Eliza said:

"Don't say that! You can be a good mother and I said I was going to help you take care of them"

"Really? You really meant those words?"

"Yes! I want to be their second mother, I have a house where it is only me, we could live together"

"You live alone?"

"Yes I'm a loner and a orphan"

"That's so awful, I  really misthink about you"

"It is okay! Promise you will never run away?"

"Promise!" She said with a smile.

"Let go back to the hospital"

Soon a black car parked in front of them.

"Let go in!"

They entered the car quickly.
Sylvia couldn't help but sigh in surprise. It was the kind of car Carlos had during college days.

Soon they reached the hospital as everyone was at peace seeing her again.

Dr. Ross quickly came out.

"Did anything happened?"

"Nothing! we just need to check the babies health"

"Okay! please come in"

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Eliza and Sylvia sat as they watched the babies through x-ray.

"Those are your babies"

"They are tiny cuties"

Sylvia felt warmth and happiness looking at her babies. They might be Carlos children but they were innocent as a blank paper, it is her that would fill what ever she wants. She would give her children the mother love she never felt.
Maybe Eliza was right, it would be too brutal to abort them. She felt guilty of trying to abort them. She slowly began to love her children.

"Is it two girls"

"Um.. they are still small, maybe when they grow bigger we could know their genders"

"Nothing is wrong with them right?"

"Lucky for you, they're safe but they look unhealthy"

"Okay thanks Dr. Ross"

"Don't bother I'm doing my job"
She said then left.

The nurses came to attend to her. After some time, Sylvia slept off.

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