Mara and Daniel were still together. Mara nor Daniel hadn’t gone home yet. But since it was already evening, they decided to spend the night in a hotel room. Although it was Daniel’s idea and Mara couldn’t reject his request. They both walked towards the reception and when they got there, they paid for a room before trying to walk towards the direction where the room was located.
Daniel was a jealous lover, he would do anything to protect his one and only Mara. As they walked together, he sighted some gentle men walking towards them but they weren’t actually coming after Daniel and Mara. They were heading towards another direction but it happened that they would have to pass the same road and Because Daniel was over protective of his lover, he decided to hold her hand instead as they both walked. Along the line, as those gentle men were walking closer to them, Daniel could now clearly see their faces as he then recognised their face that they were his school mate. Probably, they would remember Mara and Daniel’s face when they come closer. Daniel saw that the boy he once fought in school because of Mara were actually among those gentlemen. He clearly remembered that during those days in school, that guy was having a crush on Mara and when he remembered that, he decided to make the guy jealous.
Meanwhile, Mara hadn’t understood what was going on yet.
Daniel, still holding Mara’s hand, saw that the gentlemen were now closer and they could clearly see each other’s faces as he decided to carry Mara like the way a groom would carry his new bride as he then landed a peck on her forehead as Daniel walked past the gentlemen. Mara on the other hand was so shy because she could remember those gentlemen’s faces.
At first, the gentlemen didn’t recognise Daniel and Mara’s faces but it was after Daniel had carried Annabel and gave her a peck they recognised their faces due to they had given so much attention to the lovers because they admired their love life but only for them to realize that those two lovers were their classmates. They tried not to say a word after seeing that scene but they couldn’t.
“Huh?,” that was what came out from the mouth of one of the gentlemen when he turned back to look at Mara and Daniel.
“That’s Mara and Daniel right?” One of the guys called Stanley asked.
“What do you think?” Mara’s school crush asked.
Seems like Daniel and Mara heard their statement but they decided not to care at all. Daniel didn’t bring Mara down yet as he continued walking.
The moment Daniel put his foot on the first step that leads to their hotel room, he heard Mara’s school crush words again.
“Stanley, did you see how he carried and pecked her? Can you remember those days in school? He has always shown that he loves her but always denies that. You remember the day he fought me because of her? You all remember right?” He asked as he looked at Daniel to see if his words had annoyed him and it seemed like Daniel didn’t care less about their conversation.
Daniel halted and looked at Mara’s school crush who was obviously talking out loud enough for Daniel to hear him.
Immediately the three gentlemen men sighted the fire burning in Daniel’s eyes, two of the men gradually walked away. Leaving Mara’s crush all by himself. He was proving stubborn, he didn’t want his friends to see him as weak, he didn’t want to give up yet as he said again.
“You think I’m scared of you?”
His question increased the fire burning in Daniel’s eyes and Mara could see that. She could see that Daniel was about to go berserk as she decided to call him down before it would be too late.
“Baby, just ignore him okay? Please let’s go.” She pleaded. Daniel didn’t want to hurt his darling Mara so, he decided to listen to her as he climbed the stairs and headed to their hotel room and meanwhile, Mara’s crush heart was already beating so loud and was very scared that Daniel would beat him up again but thankfully that Mara was quick to calm Daniel, which made Mara’s school crush to release a heavy sigh of relief.
Immediately Daniel walked and got to the front of the hotel room door, Daniel brought her down as Mara sprinted into the room and shut the door behind her after she confirmed that Daniel had walked in. She walked towards the bed and sat, leaning her head on the head board for a while with a happy and dazed expression, as if her thoughts were millions away from her body. She was happy that she was in love but sad that her family were all gone but after some time, the scene that happened just a moment ago where Daniel had carried her in front of those men kept replaying in her head like a movie. To her, it was much more overwhelming than any movie she ever watched and everything she had ever imagined.
She remembered how his soft lips felt when it landed on her forehead and her heart just wouldn’t want to stop trying to jump inside her chest, as if it was currently playing a game called ‘jump in me now!’
Daniel stood, undressing himself as he admired his queen without saying any word to her.
Mara, still sitting and with her heart filled with so much thought, she touched her forehead, as she could now see in her imagination that his lips were coming towards her as she caressed her lips and couldn’t stop imagining how hard she would kiss him if he came, offering his lips to her.
It wasn’t as if Mara was a virgin. The truth was that Daniel was her first lover and every little thing he did to her made her feel special.
‘So this is how it feels to be in love?’ She asked herself inwardly as she looked at Daniel who was now almost half naked, in the process of pulling off his trousers and showing just his undies.
She concluded that it was truly so wonderful and magical.
She immediately ran towards Daniel who was about to hang his trousers inside the wardrobe, as she placed her hands around his waist and held him romantically, resting her head on his back. He felt Mara’s hands wrapped around him as he hurriedly hung his trousers and turned to face Mara. He turned towards her as Mara hugged him and placed her head on his chest as she said;
“I love you. I’m glad you came.” She said but it was obvious that her voice was weak and Daniel noticed that as he wrapped his hands around her to embrace her but suddenly, he could feel some liquid wet his singlet and eventually, those liquid were Mara’s tears. Before he could try to raise her face to be sure she wasn’t crying, he heard her say;
“Clara is dead.” She sobbed.
“Huh?” He said.
He didn’t know what to say, he thought of asking her what happened to Clara and how she had died but because he already saw that she was already crying, he didn’t want to hurt her more. He was speechless, so speechless that he felt bad and wished that, only if he had the power, he would do anything within his power to make Mara happy but since he didn’t have those power he had wished For, he felt sad as he tried to calm Mara and to make her to stop crying.
“Don’t cry, okay? I’m here for you Baby. I’m always here. Don’t worry, everything is going to be alright.” He said and raised Mara’s face that she was now looking at him. They both stared at each other’s eyes as he pecked her forehead and said;
“I love you, I will always love you and I promise to always make you happy no matter what. I promise to be the source of your happiness at all times. I promise to be the man that you have always loved and I promise not to change from the man you have always loved. This is me Baby, the real me and I’m here for you okay?” He said.
Their both eyes hadn’t left each other’s eyes yet.
Mara, hearing all his promises, those second set of tears that had long formed, those tears she had tried not to let out finally poured out .
Her heart melted at that moment. She started to feel grateful that God had given her a nice man as a lover. She didn’t know how to show her gratitude, all she could do was to just tear up. Daniel couldn’t bear to watch her cry, he kept trying to calm her and stop her from crying.
He wiped her tears countless times.
With both eyes still fixed on each other’s eyes, he realized that she was calm a little, as he placed his lips on hers and gave her a short kiss but when he was about to remove his lips from her lips, it happened that she had refused to let go of his lips. What could he do if not to kiss back? He didn’t have a choice, all he could do was to kiss her back as his left hand caressed her hair and his right hand held her waist. As the kiss was ongoing, he gradually moved her towards the bed, as they both later on it gradually and meanwhile, their lips were still fixed on each other’s lips.
Meanwhile, At the hospital Where Mike and Rose had rushed Mr. Evidence to, the doctors and nurses had long ago rushed him into the operation room as they began the operation.
Rose and Mike waited anxiously. Anytime they see a nurse walking towards the location of the operation room, they both would get scared and would hope for the best outcome but time, and time again, they didn’t have so much confidence for a successful operation because the doctor had already made it clear that he had just 30% chance of survival and Mike had already told Rose about what the doctor had said and how Mr. Evidence’s illness was crucial. When they sighted the operation room door open and they saw two doctors coming out from the room, it was obvious that something was wrong and it got Rose scared. All she could hear them say was;
“Bring more blood! Bring more blood! Be fast!”
Rose wanted to run towards the two doctors but Mike and the nurses who were on duty for that day stopped her. They held her and denied her from going in that direction. Rose didn’t know what to do. She just stood like a prisoner as she saw the operation room door close again.