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

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

I will do anything if

"Anything?"

thuds. He adds,

one request.

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

am really sorry for the situation now. And I know the Charles Family owes too

Just go.

off the infusion tube in her hand. Blood seeps out

know what I am doing. I

can’t you just let go of your obsession? I don’t love

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

suddenly, "Are

As you said, I have lost my hope for life. I cannot live like a

Marriage is not a

agree. You can just give me up and leave now. If you leave, you do not need to come here again, and I will no longer be a burden to you. You

really

deep breath and turns around, deciding to leave. He takes a few steps but is stopped by a loud sound. Mia falls from

"Mia."

sees her wounds. Blood

"Did it hurt?"

pale. She sneers with tears, "No. Compared with the wounds in my heart, it

at her, "Why did you push me away? If I knew this would happen, I would rather be

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

should fulfill my happiness. Instead,

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 I would live happily to the end. But now? I am paralyzed. Nobody

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

think. You don’t need that. But

crazy and insane for ten years. Even I become a disabled. You ruined the first half of my life, and now you ruin the