Thalia’s Pov
After Josh and Scarlett’s wedding, we flew straight to the beach house. I guess seeing Josh happy and finding the love of his life brought so many memories of Brandon. If I said I was not jealous then I was lying. I was dead jealous, in fact, I never wanted to attend but Scarlet was such a nice person after I met her so I could not come up with an excuse not to attend.
Nestor was Josh’s best man, they were not that close but Josh had no one to ask so he asked Nestor. I never objected because it was not my place.
Yes Brandon would be p*sssed and Nestor would have gotten fired over and over again but we were living in a new chapter. Overall the wedding was spectacular, I wished the couple the best in their marriage and their future but I wanted to be with Brandon.
I had been busy the past five months, rarely having time for Kendra because I was tackling two companies plus modifying Brandon’s capsule where he lay, awaiting the cure.
I made it in a way that I could lay in it too and wrap my hands around him. Dr. Wilson never approved of it but it was not like he was susceptible to infection or I was contagious. I always disinfected myself before I got in.
Sometimes I placed Kendra with me inside. I wanted her to familiarize herself with him. I promised him that she was never going to forget him no matter how many years passed and that was what I was fulfilling.
I used to videotape Kendra’s life for him to come and watch. She was now crawling and saying some baby words. I got everything on videotape. He was never going to miss any little detail of his daughter’s life. Her first word, first fall, first school. I was going to document without fail.
Everyone around me had their cameras ready to contribute to the video archive that I was creating. Even Josh and Scarlet helped in the videos especially since Kendra spent some days at their house.
After they sent me the videos I could compile them and arrange them in chronological order. Brandon was never going to miss anything. All I could hope for was Dr. Willson not to fail me. I was counting on him, he owed Brandon and he needed to hurry up before Brandon missed everything in Kendra’s life.
I sat there gossiping to him about Josh and Scarlet’s wedding to every detail. I could only imagine the foul comments he would pass. Maybe even ruined the day or something or he would have been in the forefront making sure the day happened and shipped them to a far place for their honeymoon where he would have left them stranded. That was Brandon, wicked in a cute way.
A tear dropped, I missed him so much, I missed being shocked at his plans and wondering if he was normal upstairs. I missed him coughing at me, I missed hearing him firing Nestor thousands of times.
I missed his jealous nature, always jumping to conclusions and thinking Nestor and I were having an affair. He even hid Josh’s sperm thinking, Josh and I were going to end up being lovers and have more babies. I chuckled just thinking about that.
I missed everything about him, and what was sad about everything was the fact we never even got to be intimate. He won the bet but never claimed it for reasons known to himself. If only I could turn the clock back and fall for his advances.
What if we had followed Nestor’s advice and not gone ahead with our revenge? Maybe he and I would have become a couple in the early days or months. But would he have lived that long? Would he have had a will to live if he was not looking forward to seeing Josh on his knees or Kendra’s beautiful face? There were a lot of factors in revenge that gave him the will to fight.
I felt a hand behind my back and looked up, it was Nestor. I had thought he had gone back to have fun with one of the bridesmaids but that was not to be. He was really boring, no wonder Brandon thought he was gay or something.
“Kendra needs to sleep,” he said.
I looked at my lap and found her fast asleep. “Oooh, I did not notice,” I said as he picked her up and took her to her little bed. She was turning one in some weeks, she had grown and was no longer troublesome when it came to sleeping.
He walked back after he had tucked her in and sat beside me. Unlike what Brandon had predicted, Nestor and I got along so well. Maybe it was because there was no Brandon to fight over or impress.
He respected my decisions and when I was wrong he politely corrected me and I also respected his opinions and trusted him with my life. He usually dealt with the Mandel businesses, even though he had no qualifications but he was good at it through watching and paying attention to Brandon.
Most of the time I learned a lot from him. Inc Biotech was my baby and I brought back all the directors that were loyal to my father that Josh and his s*upid father got rid of. We were taking baby steps at the time but the FRASER 2021i was the most happening medical breakthrough in the country.
It was responding to a lot of cancers, it was better than chemotherapy and most patients were opting for it. My face was all over billboard magazines and newspapers. I guess I was famous. My father was proud of me wherever he was. To be honest, I was not happy, everyone around me noticed that.
How could I be when the s*upid machine failed to work on the person that I created it for. Yes, I was being selfish but it broke my heart that a lot of families got their second chance while my man was in a s*upid coma.
“Do you think he hears us?” Nestor snapped me out of my thoughts.
“Yes he does, of course, he hears us,” I replied.
“Then, I will have to confess about being Josh’s best man. Hope when you wake up you take it easy on me,” he pleaded.
We both became quiet like we were waiting for him to get up and go crazy on us but it was quiet. Too quiet, he just slept there not even minding a brink.
“The doctor will soon find the cure, very soon,” Nestor added when he noted I was crying.
I only nodded my head but that cure never came, a year passed, another year passed and a total number of five years passed altogether. I turned thirty years old while Kendra turned Five years but Brandon was still in that capsule and the doctor was nowhere near the s*upid cure.
My daughter was already in Kindergarten and Brandon missed part of her life, of course, Josh was there. He was not a bad father, he was a very good father, I could not complain but I also wanted my Brandon to be there but he was not. He never got to have that chance. But Kendra knew him, I made sure she knew she had two fathers one was Josh while the other one was Brandon.
I would take her to the beach house, she loved the beach house though I never told her why it was built. At first, she would ask a lot of questions as to why her other daddy was asleep.
I tried my best to explain in simplified ways but that only led to more questions but I loved it when she asked questions about him. She was fascinated by the capsule in which he lay and always requested to sleep with him in it.
She once asked me what I did when I was with him in the capsule so I told her, I told him secrets that I did not want other people to know. She picked that up and always requested me to leave the room so that she could tell Brandon every secret she had. I had no idea what secrets she had at her age but I was thankful that she trusted him with her secrets. Though Brandon was asleep he was part of her life.
In that same year, Scarlett got inseminated with Josh’s sperm and the two were expecting their first child together. I was so happy for them and for an unknown reason we became so close, too close.
They were always at my house and every time I was free I was at theirs. I did not have many friends except for Nestor, Maggie, and her boyfriend who were still going strong. But it was them who were usually at my place, trying to cheer me on or something. I understood they thought I was lonely but, to be honest I was very envious of them.
They had a perfect family while my other half was in a coma. They were good people, Josh had turned out to be a good man, his father was the one who was a bad influence on him. Scarlet shaped him into a loving father but I was envious he got a happy ending while I was still waiting for mine.
And I had no idea if I was the one who was overthinking or not but recently they were bringing one of their male friends over to my house a lot. His name was Paul, he was a nice guy and they always made sure he sat next to me. At first, I did not think of it much but then Nestor brought it up when I was alone with him.
Josh and Scarlet were trying to set me up with a man, he had told me. I was so p*ssed, they were both aware of Brandon but they were trying to make me cheat on him. Being a very successful rich scientist/ inventor I was receiving a lot of proposals from handsome men in the corporate world but I used to turn them all away because I was waiting for my Brandon, a man that gave me a second chance at life and left me all his wealth. I was not going to betray him, and neither was I ever going to give up on him.
Without thinking I stormed into their house without knocking and yelled at them to f*ck off my private life. They had no right, it was only five years and I was not going to give up.
“Thalia, we were only trying to help,” Scarlet tried calming me down.
“Did I say that I needed your help? I have a boyfriend and his name is Brandon!” I yelled at her.
“We all think that you should let him go, he would want you to find someone and live your life,” Josh cut in.
The audacity made me clench my body, he was out of his jurisdiction and had no right, no right.
“What do you mean by us? Who are these we?”
“Maggie and Wilfred also think that it is time, Brandon’s condition is one of those that do not have a cure, you have to accept that!” he snapped and yelled at me. Scarlet quickly held his hand.
“I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to yell but what I’m saying is that it is not healthy for you and Kendra…”
“Josh watch what comes out of your mouth next,” I warned him while pointing a finger at him. “We have come a long way and do not destroy our friendship with your careless mouth,” I warned.
“Thalia?”
“Don’t, let me make one thing clear, I will never give up on Brandon and neither is Kendra. If people can not respect that then they should not be my friend,” I said and stormed out crying. I drove back to the house and woke up Kendra who was asleep.
“Mummy, where are we going?” she asked
“To the place where I first met your father?” I replied.
“Which one?”
“The sleeping beauty,” I replied with a smile.
We drove in the middle of the night to the infamous bridge. I had hired a construction company and they had renovated the bridge which made it safe for Kendra and me to sit there. She liked it and was not scared that it was dark or that it was a long way down. I used to go there alone but it was time for Kendra to know the place.
We both said a prayer for Brandon as we just sat there and watched the sunrise gather. It was the first time she was seeing it and she was very excited and jumping. I had to calm her down. My phone kept ringing, Nestor, Josh, and Maggie kept calling me but I ignored their calls. I did not want to talk to any of them. How dare they think it was time for Brandon to go.
After another hour I noticed Kendra was very tired so I drove back home. I found the house fully packed, they all thought I had run off with my daughter or something.
“Thalia you scared us,”
“Brandon is still at the beach house, where do you think I would go without him,” I replied, handing Kendra to Maggie.
“We are sorry Thalia, it was not in our place,” Josh apologized. I only nodded and folded my arms.
“We are very sorry, we just wanted you to have a full life,” Scarlet added.
They asked for forgiveness, the only person waiting patiently like me was Nestor. At least two people did not lose hope… ooh three people, together with Kendra.
