You know that feeling when you zone out of reality, when the pain seems so unbearable that you just want out, you’re desperately hoping that this is some nightmare because even though you’ve pinched yourself a thousand times, you’re just so afraid to believe that it actually happened.That was Sofia Winters in that very moment as she sat on the hospital waiting room chair, eyes set in a distance but on no particular object and so many thoughts flooding behind her eyes. A tear was on the brink of falling down her cheeks and her throat was the most sore she ever had it.It had been just an hour but it felt as though she already had been through the five stages of grief, from screaming in the center of the hospital halls, to pacing across each post and corner, to fidgeting and the near nervous breakdown, to the river of tears that she exhausted from her eyes to the weight of the world she felt clinching around her heart. She thought she was having a heart attack.All while it was just h

“Sofia” He muttered, turning to the side for a little while and it was the most defeated that Sofia had ever seen Oscar’s eyes. He desperately tried to hide them from me but she was quick, catching a glimpse of how burdened they were with the secrets he held back from her. And each moment that passed that she was in the dark, her heart broke, little by little. “Oscar?” She called, after the whole speech urging him to trust her but all he did was fall back into his chair.“Just…Sofia, just let it go” He said. “No” Sofia immediately threw herself forward as she shook her head. “I’m not letting it go. Quite frankly, I can’t let it go. I made a vow—““Enough with the vows!” He raised his voice it was like a rumble of thunder of her head. Sofia fell quiet faster than light, pushing the hardest lump down her throat and when their eyes met, hers grew moist.“Enough with the vows?” She softly echoed and this was her greatest fear. “Sofia…” “Enough with the vows?” By the sound of her voice,

“Oscar.” Let it be known that hours had passed now since Sofia had heard the words she feared the most. The thing was she didn’t even realize she feared them until it came like a slap in her face. And on top of the many questions she already had were more.“I declined the clinical trial” Oscar had informed her and her lips uncontrollably fell apart as she stared at him. His mind was made up and she could see the firmness in his eyes, in this decision he had come to by himself—without even telling her after agreeing to go through this together. She was mute, stung by both betrayal and shock, and anger. “Oscar!” It just didn’t make any sense. She was aware of a clinical trial that his father, Ronald did and he confessed to how the medicine was a lot helpful to him even though he already had a prognosis. The thing was with the damage of the condition and Ronald’s age, surgery was never an option.His best bet was the clinical trial but it could only do so much. Being in its early expe

As Sofia sat across from Doctor Barry, she found her hands slowly and unconsciously reach for Oscar’s. Smiling at him, she knew that was all it would take for his anxieties to calm. She wouldn’t be his wife if she didn’t notice the slightest changes in his mood and countenance each time.But Sofia knew that Oscar was one of the strongest people she’d met in her whole life and times that she had to reassure herself with those words, she was convinced that her make it out of this. But in that moment however that the doctor walked into the room, it was okay that both their hearts skipped a beat. Because alas, it was in the now they lived in but luckily, Doctor Barry was just as calming as he was reassuring. He took a seat, but placing to the side about a gazillion files and documents.“Oh don’t look at these” Were the first words he said as both Sofia and Oscar’s eyes fell to the table and they chuckled a little. “It’s just formality, I’d tell you everything that you need to know” He co

“Sandra, is it?”“It’s Sofia” She corrected as she took a seat next to Victoria. And Sofia was quick to lean in. “What’s really going on, Freya?” On the edge of her seat, she asked with an arch between her brows.“I’m sorry” Freya whispered and at some point, there was almost tears in her eyes, which she batted her lashes to hold back and they faced each other again, somewhat alone because Theo was a far distance from them, casually leaning against the wall.“I want to tell you truth” It was Vikky’s voice that drifted Sofia’s attention and now, there was a brisk silence in the room before she said.“I might be Freya, and you might be right” She started. “I know you are, I know I am” Sofia didn’t waste a second to reassure her but it was then Victoria grasped her hands. “The truth is ten years ago, I was in a car accident,” Her voice cracked a bit and Sofia was taken aback.“A car accident?”“Yes, one that almost claimed my life. And because of that, I spent nine months in a coma due t