One Shots 'The nursery nurse'

Savior Part II

Please don't come for me, this story is not over yet 👉👈

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Scars. Vivian was familiar with them. In her line of work, she saw wounds every day, and she saw how they healed. But some scars were invisible, some were deep inside.

It had been years now. Jamie was in second grade. Her life was simple, happy for outsiders. She had a good job and was now the head nurse in the A&E department. She had a nice house, albeit a small one. Her son was doing well, he was a straight-A student.

But inside Vivian, things looked different. There was a long and deep scar on her soul that was still healing. She had fought, my God, how she had fought. She would have done anything for this one woman.

But in the end, it was for nothing. The day before the Halloween ball, Vivian had tried one last time. She had spent hours talking to her, here where she was with her son right now. On the bench in front of Westminster Brigde. But it was in vain. She had given up, and Vivian could no longer help her.

So she had to do something that cause this deep and painful scar on her soul. Vivian had to step away from the whole situation. Let her go.

And she had done just that. She hadn't attended the ball, but afterwards she heard that the wedding had taken place. Vivian never saw her again after that.

The woman she had loved so much and fought so hard for simply disappeared from the public eye. As if she had died.

Jamie was running back and forth in front of her, playing football, she was watching the boy.

As she sat here on the bench, she had the feeling that her spirit was still beside her. What her life would have been like if it had worked out. Would she now be sitting here with Vivian, watching her son play? Vivian knew she had to stop asking herself the what if. But it plagued her mind every day anew.

Jamie picked up his ball and ran to her, the young boy sat down next to his mum on the bench. "Mum, my teacher told us at school today that she is going to marry her soulmate soon. What is a soulmate?" the boy asked, his innocent eyes looking up at her.

Vivian smiled slightly and ruffled his hair. "A soulmate is like a best friend only more. It's a person who knows you better than anyone else in the world. The person you always want to have with you."

The boy listened to her attentively. "Mum, do you have a soulmate?"

The nurse sighed. "I once thought I had found someone I could call that. Unfortunately, it didn't work out. I had to do something I regret to this day. Now she's just a scar."

Jamie moved closer to his mum and cuddled up to her. "But maybe she'll come back one day? Isn't that what soul mates do?"

Vivian had to smile, the innocence of children was simply remarkable.

"Maybe."