Chapter 1
Chapter one
Authors pov
A man can be seen running with his pregnant wife, dragging her by the arm, “honey you've got to hurry up, they would be here any second," he said frantically as they are getting up the back exit of the really humongous house, she tried her best but she isn't fast enough.
A car sound could be heard parking at the front of the building. “they are here" he said really nervous as he lifts her over the srbee fense, she sustained some injuries, but that was nothing compared to what awaited him inside the house.
“jihye run away from here as fast as you can" he said in Korean, “i can't leave you come with me " she replied also in the same language, “if I come with you then they'll killvus all, besides it's me thatvtgey want, I'll keep them busy while you run," he said then focused his gaze on his wife's slightly bulging stomach.
He felt inner pain, “my greatest pain won't be what ever they do to me there, it'll be that I never get to see my daughter" he said as he pulled the locket on his neck and place them in jihyes hands, she remembered when she gave him that locket as a birthday gift, “give this to our baby when she she grown" he said as glasses coukd he heard shattering and loud thumps approaching where they were.
“run!!" He commanded and jihye took to her heels, she hadn't gone too far when she heard several gunshots and s great smoke rising to the sky, she sobbed loudly,bas she looked at the tickets in her hand, they were too tickets, one for her husband and one for her, they were supposed to escape together, but he had to go back, so that they could live.
Tears dropped and spilled on the tickets and she made no attempt to clean them for her heart was heavy, sh stared at the locket again, as these she was in finally pulled into the airport.
She got down but also noticed that a black car had been tailing them all this while, she rushed inside the airport as quickly as she she could so that they wouldn't catch up with her, and luckily enough for her she manage to get into the plane before they caught up to her.
Five men watched the planes take off, “they escaped" one of the men said, “they got lucky," another said but this one didn't speak Korean, he had a British accent.
The plane parted the clouds that were in its way, and moved really quickly disappearing into the clouds, making you wonder how small we are in the universe.
The plane touched down at the Ronald Reagan Washington national airport, as she got down, together with all the other passengers, she saw that most of them had someone waiting for them, but like the rest of the others, In the plane she was alone.
But why she felt that her case was worse than theirs was because she was a woman Fein another country who just lost her husband, her home, and is pregnant, wondering how she was going to take care of her child when she is born.
Jihye had live in America for some months now, working in a diner, and her stomach was now really big you could tell that any moment from now she was going to be giving birth to her baby girl. Staying in America wasn't easy especially because if the language barrier, but jihye was lucky that the room mate she lived with spoke both Korean and American.
Her room mate was a young lady not more than 22 years of age, she was a college grad student who was studying international relations so she could speak up to four different languages, though how upstanding she might seem, her room mate Shantel was a but of an alcoholic, she tries to avoid it but tge bottle was always her partner.
Jihye had just returned from a stressful day at work, and got to the front door of her shared apartment, she pushedthe door open and tediously walked up the small flight of stairs, she remebered when climbing the stairs was just a walk in the park for her, but now it seemed like the hardest thing in the world.
She cursed under her breath, when she finally got to the room she found Shantel busy reading her book, surprised she asked, “no drink today?", “i guess all my English lessons have been paying off, your English is getting better jihye I'm proud of you" jihye tried not to blush at the complement, “it still could use some work you sound like a cookie monster" she added again making jihye hit her a little at the arm.
“you still evade my question" she said again, “alright you got me, my parents refused to give me my allowance this week they say I have to at least get a B in this upcoming test, so at the moment I'm broke" sue said, “staying sober, look good on you" she still said counting her words, Shantel smiled happily.
She had taken jihye as the elder sister that she never had, “dinner is in the fridge, I painstakingly made them since I had no money to order out" she said this time focusing on her book, “you cooked, I hope that I don't puke after this" jihye said, “hey come on they are not that bad" she said as she was still reading her book when she heard a large rockus in the kitchen and jihyes scream pierced into her ear sending Shantel immediately Into panic mode.
She took a quick look at the direction that jihye was took and she noticed that jihyes clothes were wet, ”the baby's coming" jihye simply said, asmist slight pains, “now!" Shantel said as she hurriedly reached for her phone to call 911, she tried I stay calm in the situation but was doing a really bad job.
She grabbed the phone but her hands were shaking randomly and in trying to unlock the phone it fell from her hand and landed on the sofa, “breathe Shantel just breathe you'll be fine" jihye tried advising Shantel even though she was the one in pain.
Shantel nodded and forced herself to calm down, shebpicjed up the phone this time more assured and made the call.
In few minutes the ambulance had arrived and jihye was taken to the hospital, as Shantel trailed behind them.
The cry of a baby could be heard, from a distant, as Shantel who was pacing around the waiting room restlessly, heaved a sigh of relief, Shantel couldn't wait to be called to the maternity ward where jihye was, she kept peeping through the keyhole of the door, as she caught little glimpses of the new born.
There are certain moments in the life of a person that can change that person completely, this was kne if them, looking at that little child filled her with so much passion it made her wonder how jihye was feeling right now.
After the long and arduous pain of labour and childbirth, I finally caught a glimpse of my baby, so tiny and frail, I smiled as the doctors cleaned her up, and wrapped a blanket around her, my little darling was finally put into my arms, as I looked into her grey eyes, I knew that she could t see yet but it felt as though she could see me.
“please doctor could you let Shantel in, I know she really wants to get into this moment, plus I owe he a lot" jihye said but before the doctor could go and open the door, it burst open with Shantel running into the room, “you know me too well, jihye" she said smiling wildly as she sat close to my bed staring very keenly at the baby.
“She is very beautiful, she has your face, though her eyes dosn't look like yours" Shantel said “she has her fathers eyes" that was the moment that shantel noticed that she has never for once even inquired about the father of the baby.
But she reasoned that that was not the time nor the place to asked such a question, “i want to carry her" shantel said already stretching forth her hand to lift up the little bundle of joy, jihye just nodded, as Shantel picked her up feeling the warmth of the new born baby. “have you thought of a name yet?" Shantel asked, “hee father loved poems especially the one with 14 lines that rhymes, so I would name her sonnet".......