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

both remain silent for a while. A few

I will do anything

"Anything?"

heart thuds. He adds, "Expect for

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

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

the Charles Family owes too much

Just go. Leave

Blood seeps out at once. Troy stops her, asking

what I am doing. I want to end this

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 for. I just want something to rely on. You only have two choices. One is marring me, the other is refusing me. If you agree, I

stands up suddenly, "Are you

if you agree to marry me, I won’t be happy. As you said, I have lost my hope for

not important, why do you still try to make it hard for me? Marriage is not

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

being so extreme? You really think I dare not

and turns around, deciding to leave. He takes a

"Mia."

the first time, he sees her wounds. Blood

"Did it hurt?"

"No. Compared with the wounds in my heart, it

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

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

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

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

my heart to see you like this? You lose the ability of

you think. You don’t

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