A LITTLE TOUCH OF ROSE - FINAL EPISODE 41

There is no peace in the life I live, I learnt that the hard way. Taking over from gather was not easy, not one bit. I faced this challenge to the other, this attack to this war, but I swept all under my feet. I am my father’s daughter, and he is a demon in human body.

I remembered the surprise he pulled on me. He woke up almost three years later, two months to my birthday. So, himself, mom and Zed… Well, the crew hid it from me. On my birthday, he came out of nowhere, singing the stupid song he sings for me every year on my birthday. It was the first time in forever I broke down in public. Trust paparazzi to catch everything on camera. I was too happy to care.

Then to put the cherry on top, mom and dad kissed when I was cutting my cake. He didn’t take over from me, but with him around, it became easier. The past years, I’d watch my family and friends grow in love and happiness. Mom and dad got married again and even though mom could never conceive again, dad loved Reece and the rest too much to care.

Geez! Himself and Bloom bicker like children and fight almost every time, but he loves her senseless. Reece is like his little wise friend and Sakura his new angel. He protected them more than me because he knew I could handle myself. They were good.

Sakura, don’t expect her to leave Isaac, they were married. Thanks to Sakura getting pregnant and mom almost throwing her off the roof of my house–not joking–she was the first to get married, followed by–no surprise–Alyssa and Tennyson. The fool got the careless girl pregnant. Next was Odin and Meena, though they didn’t get married at first. They got a baby girl before they sealed the knot with her second pregnancy.

It was sweet watching my friends marry each other… Except for Alvin and Cedric, those two fools. Hime broke up with Dean and Jake ended up cheating on Sachie, no surprise there. They were fine, Sachie dating some weird guy and Hime jumping on everything with a dick. She ended up becoming a porn star but it wasn’t really our business.

Don’t ask about Yuki and Darra. Yuki opened a food hunt show so she mostly travelled the world, but that didn’t shake her relationship with Darra. They recently got married after Yuki put a stop to the show so she could focus on her life. Yet, she was carrying a child already.

That brings me to the sad part about my life, the only part that brought tears to my eyes. I knew it would be hard, but I didn’t expect it to be that hard. Like planned, Zedekiah and I started planning baby making but it was never fruitful, at least for two years. I was pregnant when dad woke up, so I was happy he was there to walk me down the aisle. But I was not happy about nearly dying from an attack and losing my baby.

I let it go, I took it like a champ and I was glad I did because not less than six months later, I took in again and bore the most cutest thing in my life, my precious little Rose. She was everything to Zed and I, absolutely everything. Zed named her Rose the day I was confirmed pregnant. He said because I came into his life and affected a whole lot of things. He could never wish for a better happily ever after.

“Whenever I look at our baby, I’ll remember all the memories we made and everything your presence did to my life. It feels like my life was touched by roses, so I want to be surrounded by the true beauties of roses.” It made no sense to me when he said it, but it was what he felt.

She was so adorable and looked exactly like my mother with Zedekiah’s ash blonde hair and dad’s violet-green eyes. She was perfect, before she was taken away from me. I should have been there to protect her, but I wasn’t.

There was an explosion, a bomb placed in Zedekiah’s car. Unfortunately, my daughter’s driver used the car to take her to school. She was so smart and started kindergarten at two years. The car exploded on the way and I lost my flower. Since then, I hadn’t even shown any sign of pregnancy. I took it as punishment for my sins, but it hurt like hell.

Four years after her death and I was still doing the process of checking myself every single month. I cried every time I saw my period and would go into depression, but Zedekiah was always there to support me.

Standing in my bedroom, looking at myself in the mirror as I cried while waiting for Romi to announce the negative news, I held on to Zedekiah because my life depended on it. He insisted that what I was doing wasn’t healthy, but I wouldn’t hear of it.

This time, I would take better care of her or him, I’ll love her better. Maybe I didn’t love her enough, maybe I wasn’t caring enough. Or maybe she died because I avoided the law. Instead of training her to continue what we were, I thought I could put an end to it, but I guess I was wrong.

The covenant was unbreakable.

I didn’t care anymore, just wanted my own child and not be depress. To the outside world, I was strong and heartless to anyone that I don’t know, but they didn’t know what I was going through and didn’t need to know. Maybe just like dad spent twenty years in sadness, it was my turn to face my own sadness for being part of the Donahue lineage.

“It’s positive! It’s positive!” Romi squealed as she rushed in, waving the test result. “You are one month pregnant, Rosita!”

My legs weakened and I collapse, but he was there to hold me. I felt his tears fall on my shoulder as we both laughed with joy.

Finally, it was truly over.

The End