HOUSE OF THORNS
Episode 56
A few days later, Vivian was sitting with her mother and Pascal, discussing the plans for their travels.
Daisy and Samantha were playing with their toys as usual, while the adults were making major decisions about their future.
Pascal has been besides himself with joy since Vivian woke up in the hospital.
He kept wondering how his life would have been if he had had to experience disaster a second time.
She told them about how she saw herself walking a lonely and dark path, with no one to help.
The further she walked, the darker and eerier it got, but somehow, at some point, she started hearing voices, loud and mocking voices.
They were people who scorned her.non.stop for throwing away the gold she had in her hands and picking up the garbage she had swallowed, making her so sick and unwell in the stomach.
Her stomach was hurting, and she could see them pointing at her in sheer.mockery.
Then she saw Jeremy, taunting and sneering at her. Showing her a replay of how she had abandoned everything that was working for her and walked sheepishly into aby.ss.
Jeremy was pulling her with him into greater darkness, and seeing how she had lost everything, seeing how everything that should have mattered to her were already out of her reach, she followed him into the darkness without resistance.
After a while, she could hear Leonard and Pascal calling her to cross the rift, urging her to come be with them.
She turned around to look at them, but she didn’t see a reason to come back to them. The only thing she had gained from her misery these past year, her daughter, was gone!
She told her mum and Pascal how, even though she really wished she could come back to stand besides Pascal, she didn’t see the strength to cross over to where they stood because she had somehow drifted so far away from them.
Then all of a sudden, her daughter whom she hadn’t been seen since she got into the dark alley, started yelping all of a sudden.
She was looking around for her but couldn’t see her, but her daughter’s tiny hands out of nowhere, had started making frantic efforts to touch her hands.
She had struggled to make her hand touch her daughter’s, and after a little trial, their hands met, and she found her feet moving her closer to where Leonard and Pascal were waiting to carry her away from Jeremy who was still battling to pull her back. And the rest was history.
Right there in the hospital, before Vivian was finally discharged to go home, Pascal had asked her to be his wife. He didn’t want to wait a second later.
“We have moved through so many paths, seen many troubles and experienced so much pains before our paths crossed each other’s.
We have both made mistakes, the kinds that almost made us impossible, but Vivian, I’m certain the reason we were allowed to stay on till now is to avail me the chance to tell you that I love you.
And if you let me my dear, I’ll spend the rest of my days loving you, and eternity being the father Daisy never had. Please marry me Viviann.
Say yes and make my heart come alive again!” he had asked on bent knees
And even though Vivian had been wallowing in self pity, even though she had been looking at herself as not deserving of a man as cool as Pascal, she had no choice but to say yes to Pascal.
She couldn’t have had the heart to process a ‘no’, neither could her mouth have been able to pronounce it.
No! Not with her mother already cupping her mouth with her hands and tears of joy streaming down her face!
Of course, not when the nurses all stood gushing and cheering. A’no’ would certainly not come out of her mouth when Pascal had got Leonard and Valerie behind him, cheering and urging her to say yes.
They all made her feel so important, so wanted and most importantly, totally forgiven.
She gave a sound yes, and then she could sw.ear the entire town heard the screams of jubilation that erupted in the hospital ward.
So that morning, having agreed with Pascal to return to his base with the two children, they were discussing the plans with her mother.
“That’s a good idea my darling. That way, the two children will grow together as siblings, neither having to be told about who had a de.spicable father before and who had a mother too angelic to remain on earth for long.
HOUSE OF THORNS : EPISODE 51 – THE END
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