Someday,,  you'll see..

I'll emerge victor over my demons.

I will rise steadily.

I will sail out of your reach!

Someday,, you'll see..

IPR Workshop (A Mash-up Story)

ROMEO

          Romeo is a 20-year old boy.  He is ambitious, that's how his neighbors call him. Too ambitious, at times, that he often finds himself daydreaming.  But never did he stop on achieving his dreams, and believing in himself.

          He has a wife.  She is pregnant for 9 months.  Romeo loves her.  So much that he does everything for her, to feed her and their child-to-be.

          One day, Romeo is stuck in thought of where he wants to be when he was 10.  He dreams his whole family lives in a place where no man ever lived – the outer space.  He knows someday, he can do that with his invention his scientific mind has been busy with for many years.  While lost in thoughts, his wife is crowning.

          Romeo is inflicted.  He is caught between choosing to follow his dream, or his current duty to his wife. It is a choice that determines where his priorities lie.  His wife will give birth to their first child, will prove all her strength in labor.  While here he is, still overwhelmed by his inflicted thoughts.  He knew right there and then he could not afford to chase his dreams.  He has to do what he must!

          At once he brings his wife to the hospital.  He helps the nurses and doctors rush his already-laboring wife, on a stretcher, to the delivery room.  As soon as they reach the room, he is forced to stay outside.  He can see the pain painted all over his wife's face.  In mind, he asks himself how big the skull of the fetus is.  He can't help but think of it!  Yes, even in such life-or-death case (lols). It takes to have 8 to 10 centimeters of opening for the fetus to be born.

          His anxiety grows as seconds turn into minutes, and minutes into hours.  He thinks of so much this time his mind seems to explode!

          Outside the delivery room, he is shaking.  He finds it hard to recover from the adrenaline rush.  It's as if an 8.0 magnitude earthquake is confined right exactly to where he stands.  He is
severely worried. He calls gods as many as he can recall. He calls saints, angels, fairies, dwarfs, white ladies! Name it. Lucky not for him his tranquilizer was left at home.  He panics. The only thing that keeps him calm, at least a bit, is his trust to his wife.

          "Are you the husband of Magdalena?",  a voice emerged out of nowhere.  Romeo is even more startled!  "Hey hey, I'm here, r-i-g-h-t here. (Clears her throat) I am the doctor..."  She introduced herself.  Romeo is astonished!  The doctor defines the word petite.  So short. The doctor has dwarfism. A burst of laughter is about to exit from Romeo's mouth.  "Hello... Are you OK?!"  the doctor blurts out in a high-pitched voice.  He suppressed his outburst of cackle. Romeo nodded.  The delivery is successful.

          At that very second, he could feel his chest burst with relief. He could not wait to see his wife. He could not anymore wait to see his first child...

          His heart constantly trips hard in his lean chest.  Upon seeing his family; his wife, his son, love flickers in his eyes..  His tear rolls down his cheek like raindrop – A tear of untainted joy!

          A few hours go past, a man barges-in to the room.  So angry!  He is claiming that the child is his, and not Romeo's.  Upon hearing that, Romeo is tongue-tied.  He does not know what to say.  He is also angry. So angry that he punches the guy right to his lying face.  He managed to do it despite his gaunt and bony physique.  He loves his wife so much that he could not believe of what the guy said!

          The knocked-out guy was forced to exit the room by the guards.  At once, Romeo confronted his wife.  He asks about the man's words.  Still weak from the delivery, she confesses.  Neither of the two is the father.  Romeo is mad!  How could she lie to him?!  She confessed that the father of the child is the twin brother of Romeo..

          Romeo is stunned!  His eyes dim with tears.  His heart breaks.  Not paying her further heed, he left her with no head turned.  Words of her tongue are like poison.  It sucks his strength from its very core.  He can't dare listen any longer.

          He dashes out of the room.  His heart bleeds without a halt.

          All the happy thoughts he spent with his wife start to haunt him as he exits.  They were so happy.  One day, love filled the air, warmed them in winter days of their lives.  Now, it's all gone! Tears drip off his nose.  All he can do is cry the hardest he can!

          He finds it hard to move on.  He cannot do it quickly.  Anyone with a broken heart knows the feeling.  But he does his best to forget.  He does not want to lose altitude also in his dream.  Despite the pain pulsing through him,  he went on with it.

          With no second thought, he rides in his invention.  Takes a flight, and bravely pushes the red button of journey to nowhere...

          Just within a few minutes, he reaches the outer space-- his new Home.  A place where he can live his life anew.  Using his brilliant invention, he continues to live up to this day.  He watches anyone on earth who reads his story.





      



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