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?"

I am

them is a little bit heavy. They both remain silent for a while. A few moments later, Troy

I will

"Anything?"

thuds. He

I only have one

rubs his forehead. This is what he worries most. Now, his

know the Charles Family owes too much to

Just go. Leave me

infusion tube in her hand. Blood seeps out

what I am doing. I want

of your obsession? I don’t love you.

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

stands up suddenly,

marry me, I won’t be happy. As you said, I have lost my hope for life. I cannot live like a normal person.

make it hard for me? Marriage is not a child’s play. If I marry you, then I will be bound to cause harm to

you leave, you do not need to come here

extreme? You really think I

around, deciding to leave. He takes a few steps but is stopped by a loud

"Mia."

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

"Did it hurt?"

Compared with the

away? If I knew this would happen, I would rather be the one hit by the car. I

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

you should fulfill my happiness. Instead, you are forcing me into a

you broke off the engagement with me, grudged as I was, I did not lose the hope for life 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

Do you think it does not hurt my heart to see you like this? You lose the ability of self-living. I can help that. But it does

you think. You don’t need

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