The Forgotten One

The Mysterious Man: Wylie Connor

Two days have passed, and it's time for his discharge, Wylie feels a slight pain on his forehead. The nurse comes by, asks him if he needs help. He refuses and stands up, he perceives a certain dizziness, yet after some time it fades away. He walks over to the clear window and sees the grand view. It is emancipating, he could see many edifications and houses from where he stood. It appeared as if he had amassed these territories that were lying below his sight. He thought of himself conquering these lands, their citizens and their fortune, when he hears the sound of the door opening. It's a man of a medium stature and wore a wrinkled black coat with a purple tie and some black pants. His eyes are red and it could be seen that he has been crying for hours. He has some wrinkles over his face, which would give him a very old aspect, he also has a goatee beard. Little hair covered his shiny bald head. The man's pointed nose shadows his small lips. A smile forms on the man's face when his eyes meets his. The man runs towards him and hugs him tightly. Wylie could feel the man’s arms wrapped around him. A pain raises in his chest and he pulls himself out of the man’s grip. He touches his chest, it aches a little. Then the man speaks: “Sorry, Wylie, I didn’t mean to hurt you.”

Wylie notices the man, as being a little too friendly, and questions his identity. The man’s face shows a certain shock and he then asks: “Can you not recognize me, your Uncle Harry?” Wylie stood there and moves his face side to side in refusal. The man had a worrying expression on his countenance, then he sits on the bed, and kept looking on the floor. The man raises his head and looks carefully toward him. He thought that the shock of his parent’s death led him to not recognize the man that sat in front of him.

He remembered the days he spent time with Wylie, before that ungrateful event. He remembered how five-year-old Wylie would hold his pinky finger and walk with him at the gardens behind the house, with that insatiable curiosity over the things he saw. He would ask: "Who is that, Uncle?" He sees where Wylie's finger points to, and a face of utter horror forms on his face as he speaks: "It's nothing, Wylie." He kneels down on one leg covering Wylie's view,"Do you want to see the beautiful flowers on the left side of the garden?" Wylie sees him and as his eyes sparkle, he smiles, "Yes!". He gets up, takes Wylie's hand and leads him to the other side, while glancing back to watch it again.

The doctor enters and glances the gloomy face of the man sitting on the patient’s bed. He questions the reason of such a feeling. The man says of what has happened. The doctor asserts the situation, and tells his patient: “Oh, don’t worry, he is your family lawyer, he’s here to take you home.” Wylie glances at the man and closes his eyes to think but cannot seem to remember that man’s face. He looks back at the view to calm himself. The lawyer puts his hand on his shoulder and tells him: “Well Wylie, let's start a new beginning and forget the end. Let me take where you belong, where you lived and where you should be now", as he talks he faintly smiles. The man looks at him and turns him around and taps his left shoulder with his right arm and leads him to exit the room. The doctor stays in the room and looks outside, trying to understand what had just occurred yet little does he know what that mysterious man who stayed here in the hospital and just left this room had planned for his future.