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

a while. A

"Yes. I will do anything

"Anything?"

thuds. He adds,

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

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

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

Fine. Just

Blood seeps out at once. Troy

am doing. I want to

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

at 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

stands up suddenly, "Are you

I have lost my hope for life. I cannot live like a normal person. Love and marriage just

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

you do not need to come here again, and I will no longer be a burden to you.

really think I dare

a few steps but is stopped

"Mia."

he sees her wounds. Blood oozes from the thick gauze. The

"Did it hurt?"

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

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

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

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

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 will love me. I lose my basic ability to take

it does not hurt my heart to see you like this? You lose the

you think. You don’t

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 just ask for a marriage. Is it too