From Dusk Till Dawn

Chapter Twenty-Two

Do you know that feeling when you forget your hope? Losing hope is one thing and forgetting hope is another thing. When we lose hope we get hurt and feel so much pain as we let the hurtful truth sink in that whatever we were wishing for will not come to reality. Some things are too difficult to accept. That's why we always keep a little thread of hope hidden deep in our hearts. We keep it hidden in a place where no one could reach it. Where no one could throw the truth at our faces. Sometimes when times get rough, we get busy that we forget that hope. We forget that we still have any more faith for that matter. It is somehow like slowly losing hope but without realizing it. Thus without the pain. In some rare moments, unexpected blessings happen. Miracles. After all this time, I thought I still had hope for Amy to regain her sight. But slowly I stopped even thinking about it, with all that had happened. On the day of our daughter's birth, the miracle happened. I had always known about infrequent situations where women can lose their vision during or after giving birth. Somehow, the hormonal and physical changes that occur may affect their eyesight negatively and lead to side effects starting from temporary blurred vision to permanent blindness. But what I had never heard of and not even the doctors, is a woman gaining her vision after giving birth. This woman was Amy. The way she freaked out when she opened her eyes. The way she cried and we all did. The way the doctors got confused. The way she looked at our daughter like she was the most precious thing to her. And indeed she was. All of these memories were engraved in our minds forever. We named our daughter Mira as a short for Miracle because, by all means, she was the miracle we could never forget. From that day on, when Amy got her sight back, our life didn't return to normal but became better. We still had our ups and downs. We still found trouble raising Mira. We still got confused sometimes. But, all in all, we still had our love. We knew how scary the dusk was, our dawn will rise sooner or later.Our respect for each other grew alongside with our love. Amy and I finally made the family we dreamed of. Years passed until our Mira grew older and went to university. She graduated, got a charming man who proposed to her and they both became a husband and a wife. Ellie got married as well. His name's Edward and he was as obsessed with science as she was. The death of my mum was the first to break our hearts. Followed by Amy's mother than her father years after. Another thing that broke my heart was Peanut's death. It broke us all but life goes on. We didn't get any other pets after him for his place was forever to remain untouched by any other. Through all of this, I was happy to witness my daughter grow more mature and get more wisdom. I was also glad to witness all of this with the love of my life. My Amy. Her grey hair and wrinkled skin didn't take a thing from her beauty. The sparkle in her eyes remained unchanged throughout the years. Her kind heart stayed youthful. She was and still is to that moment the best thing I ever had. I had many health conditions as the years passed over me. As I lay here on that hospital bed all I could think of that my last breath would be taken with Amy beside me. She sat beside my best holding my hand and her skin still made my mind go wild just by her touch. She fell asleep during the night and I knew I won't make it till the morning. I knew my time was running by but I was happy that after all those years I made the life I always wanted with the woman I had always loved. I heard the beeping of the devices connecting to my body and heard Amy's soft breathing. I tried to focus on her breathing rhythm for it was the sound I wanted to remember most. With that, I closed my eyes one last time in the hospital room knowing if I could relive my life I would do it exactly the same as it was the first time. I wouldn't want to change a single thing and that brought enough peace to my heart.

The End.