Capture Your Heart

"Okay."

Mia’s dull eyes move to the ceiling. She asks, "Can you hold me up?"

Troy is a little bit hesitant. Mia smiles, "It’s fine. I can sit. Just hold me up."

Troy reaches out and gently picks her up. He tries not to look at the lower part of her thighs.

"Do I look ugly now? Like a monster?"

"No."

"Don’t lie to me. I know I am no different than a monster now even if you don’t tell me."

"Mia."

Troy rebukes, "Don’t be pessimistic."

"Then what else can I do? I lost my legs. And now you are asking me to tell myself that it does not matter as long as I am still alive?"

Troy remains silent. Mia continues sorrowfully, "Maybe for everyone, life always has some highlights. But for me, it is just like death, no difference."

"I know you feel sad. I am much sadder than you. I don’t want you to experience the suffering at all."

"You want me safe and sound only because you don’t want me to become your burden again."

"Things have already happened. Just leave them there. Don’t think too much. I have told Robert to buy the best artificial limb for you. You can stand up again as long as you have confidence."

"I don’t have that kind of thing."

Mia glares at Troy hopelessly, "It’s just fake in the end. I cannot come back to my formal life forever. My life is meaningless now."

"How? Stephen Hawking could make him life meaningful. Why could not you?"

am not

silent for a while. A few moments later, Troy hears Mia

"Yes. I will

"Anything?"

He adds, "Expect for

am sorry. I only have one request. I want you to marry

what he worries

the Charles Family owes too much to your family. But forgive

cannot? Fine. Just go.

in her hand. Blood seeps out

am doing. I want to end

let go of your obsession? I don’t love you. Will you

least I have the reason to live. How can I talk about happiness when I am like this? Since I woke up, I have known I am denied the way to happiness because I am a monster now. I ask you to marry me so that I can have something to live for. I just want something to rely on. You only have two choices. One is marring me,

up suddenly, "Are you forcing

you agree to marry me, I won’t be happy. As you said, I have lost my

you still try to make it hard for me? Marriage is not a child’s play. If I marry you, then I will

you leave, you do not need to come here again, and I will no longer be

extreme? You really think I

around, deciding to leave. He takes a

"Mia."

the first time, he sees her wounds. Blood oozes from the thick gauze. The wounds in her lower thigh are

"Did it hurt?"

face is pale. She sneers with tears, "No. Compared with the

knew this would happen, I would rather be the one hit by the car. I don't need you to sacrifice yourself to save

not give it much thought. I just did naturally. If a

should fulfill my happiness. Instead,

because I was still young and beautiful. I believed that someday I would meet someone who loves me truly. Then he could break up the resentment in my heart and replace you. Then I would live happily to the end. But now? I am paralyzed. Nobody will love me. I lose my basic ability to take care of myself. I don’t

this? You lose the ability of self-living. I can help that. But it does not need marriage to ensure

don’t need that. But I need it

breaks down in tears, "My father died because of your family. My mother now lives in the convalescent hospital, crazy and insane for ten years. Even I become a disabled. You ruined the first half of my life, and now you ruin the second half of my life. My whole life is destroyed by your family. I