Garfield

The Aftermath: Garfield

Garfield

We'd been together for two years, and there was nothing we both wanted more than to adopt and start a family. We'd decided on a girl, at least we hoped for one, but really we just wanted a healthy child. Baby or toddler, it didn't really matter, just young enough that she could grow on us. And social services would be delivering the baby later that day. We discovered that it would be a girl! We'd tried for almost a year before we were finally granted her. So we decided to out to celebrate by none other than Louis' favourite Chinese place. Now it was our favourite Chinese place. And Louis decided there was no place he loved more than home. Travelling wasn't going to bring him happiness because he'd already found it right here, with my mom, and me, and his favourite restaurant, and even Rachel, who'd become a friend of the family now. She had a baby on the way herself, and said we inspired her to want to adopt too. Louis told me he'd call that gypsy woman, Luna, I think her name was. He'd found her number online as she was quite popular now, and he was able to access her quite easily. He'd put the call on loud speaker so I could hear the whole thing.

"Hello?" said the voice on the other end

"Hey Luna, it's me Louis, I don't know if you remember me, but I'm the guy who stormed out of your office three years ago, after you told me I was going to die"

"Ah yes, I remember you. I suppose you're calling for a refund? I suppose we could arrange that for tomorrow"

"No, I'm calling to say thank you." He paused. Silence on the other end. "If it wasn't for you I'd be stuck living some life I didn't want to. I wouldn't have done anything differently, wouldn't have tried to find love, wouldn't be studying medicine right now and I wouldn't have a daughter on the way. Now my life means something. I'm steering my own ship and it's my life. No one else's. Not my parents'. Not anyone's."

"I'm glad to hear you found what you were looking for" she said, and hung up.

"Come on" he said to me "Let's go

We decided that day was great weather for a walk, and went arm in arm downtown. We didn't care what people thought. We were right outside the restaurant when something happened. We heard loud sirens pierce the air. Police sirens. That was the last thing I thought before a crazed driver swerved onto the pavement and knocked Louis across into the restaurant wall, completely crushing him right before my eyes. He was right next to me, the driver could have hit me, but I was unharmed. It was Louis. I didn't have time to feel anything as I saw the driver reverse over my lovers' body, coldly, heartlessly, and speed off, the police chasing his tail. I looked at my lover there, crushed on the floor next to his favourite Chinese restaurant. That was when the flood of emotions cascaded over me and I fell to my knees over his dead, bloody body. I didn't believe it, couldn't. I fell over him, I didn't care that he was bloody, I lapped him up in my arms and rocked him and bawled and bawled until the police came, and the ambulance came and my mother came and everyone started crowding around, and then there was the yellow tape. They had to rip him out of my arms. "No!" I bawled "Give him back to me! Give me back my Louis! Don't take him away from me don't!" My mother had to help restrain me. They were hoping she could soothe me, but everything was a blur. The world started spinning around me and everyone's faces became like blobs, everyone's voices became a muddled mess.

It's been a month since the accident. Her name is Louisa, our baby. She's the only thing that matters to me now, and my plan is to protect her no matter what, and to let her know how great her daddy was. She's all I have left of him in this world and she's the light of my life. I vowed to take all the love I had for Louis and give it to her. It needed to go somewhere after all. It was so much love. And maybe life really is a purposeless, muddled mess; there was absolutely no reason he had to die, none that I could see. But I wasn't going to let his life go to waste. The child in my arms would learn to live her life to the fullest and live every day like there was no tomorrow.

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