91 Chance 2

"Three months passed swiftly, I just arrived home coming from the hospital, but what came next...ahhhh...sob...Mary, she overdosed on sleeping pills, she....her.....cold body passed in front of me....she did not even get a chance to see her daughter, she can't take the loneliness anymore and took her own life...." he was now crying and sobbing at the same time, he could no longer speak, it was just too painful.

If her mother died, then who was that woman that took care of her until she was left inside the church? She was now puzzled and at the same time she was doubting that it was her real mother that left her."You said my mother died, but someone took care of me until I was about six years old, who do you think that is?" she can't help but throw this question to the old man who seemed to be puzzled by her question as well.

"Someone took care of you? That's really good, there was a maid who took care of Mary while she was pregnant, and the morning that you were gone, she also disappeared. " then he took his wallet, and there was a picture of Mary with the maid that helped her out, then he gave the photo to Marga for her to look at.She was confused, this was not the person who took care of her, it was a different woman, so does this mean that she was taken away twice, it seems surreal, "She was not the one who took care of me, it was a different woman," finally she was able to speak up.

"I see, maybe something happened to the other woman that's why she left you in another persons care, but the important thing somebody took care of you."Mr. Lim said, his voice sounded hopeful, at least Marga listened and interacted."That person that took care of me for six years, abandoned me at an old church, hungry and shivering from the cold.If it was not for Sister Fatima that found me that day, I might have already been dead." Marga recalled that fateful day when she met her angel.

"I know that you have been left with Sister Fatima and her orphanage, I actually learned about it a few years back...." he admitted, but unsure of Marga's reaction so he looked at her before he spoke again, "I went to Country F to check on something, and I went to the General Hospital, it was when I saw you, I mean, I thought I saw Mary alive, I just could not believe my eyes.As I was contemplating, I followed you and soon enough, I recognized that you were similar but different in some ways too, and then I saw you beaming and looking at Doctor Son, so I thought to myself the best way to investigate who you were was through this young man." she then looked at her husband, in fact she already knew that Stephen always bring her luck, and this time, he even connected the dots of her past for her, she then smiled at her husband and squeezed his hand.

There was a long silence and their breathing can be heard, Marga was still confused, but she can't deny the fact that this old man might really be her family, and that in his story, she might not even be abandoned but was taken away from her family, it made the void in her heart become less heavy to bear, can she open up herself to this stranger? Maybe she can give him a chance, give her self a chance to become his family, maybe he was just as lonely as she was these past few years too.And her real mother too, whom she have despised in the past, don't even deserve her hate, now she felt guilty of what she have thought about her.She loved her, even in her last breath, she was thinking about her still, how can she have thought differently, will her mother forgive her, would reuniting with her Grandpa make her mother finally rest in peace? She had so many thoughts running through her head, it feels like it is about to blow up.

She then felt a warm hand in hers, "Take your time Marga, I'm just here, okay?" and Stephen gently kissed her on the top of her head.