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

little bit heavy. They both remain silent for a while. A few moments later, Troy hears Mia asking, "Will

nods, "Yes. I will

"Anything?"

He adds, "Expect for

I only have one request. I want

This is what he worries most. Now, his fears

the situation now. And I know the Charles Family owes too much

Fine. Just

hand. Blood seeps out at once. Troy stops

doing. I want to

don’t love

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, the other is refusing me.

suddenly, "Are you

said, I have lost my hope for life. I cannot live like a normal person.

they are not important, why do you still try to make it hard for me? Marriage is not a child’s play. If I

do not need to come here again, and I will no longer be a burden to you. You can live a happy life

so extreme? You really think I dare

leave. He takes a few steps but is stopped by a loud sound.

"Mia."

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

"Did it hurt?"

"No. Compared with the wounds in

shouts at her, "Why did you push me away? If I knew this would happen, I would rather be the one hit by the

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

you love me, you should fulfill my happiness.

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?

like this? You

just what you think. You don’t need that. But I

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 just ask for a marriage.