WHEN A MAN WANTS.
Episode 2
Hey folks! Lol! Sorry I won’t give
you heart attack I promise you.
Don’t want anyone to sue me lol.
He has been waiting for the morning for so long that he barely
believed his eyes when the sharp
shadows cast by the street-lamps
through the metallic blinds start to
fade, mixed with the onset of
daylight. Soon, he could hear a chorus of birds breaking the
drone of the traffic in the city.
He knew it was too early but, he
has waited for this day for so
long. He has trained for it for years
and now it has finally come. He stood up and touched his face
which was still wrapped up in
layers of bandages except for his
two eyes and his nose which he
was told he needed to be quite
careful with. “I can see that someone is excited
for today!”
He stared slowly as Joe came in,
his grey hair shone in the stream
of sunlight that penetrated into
the room through the translucent glasses of the wall.
He nodded slightly as his lips were
all tied up too.
Joe smiled and dropping his notes
on the stool, he went to the
window to drop the curtain apart a little wider, causing the man
lying down to squint his eyes.
“How are you doing today
budyy?” Joe asked taking a pen
from his breast pocket and
advanced towards the man lying down.
He nodded.
Joe pulled down the skin below
his eyes and then flashed the tiny
torch in his hand into his light. He
studied the reaction of his pupils and then did the same to the
other.
As Joe did this, the heart of the
man lying down was beating
faster and faster. He silently
prayed that the old doctor would not change his mind about today.
“Well, I guess we are good to go!”
Joe declared and putting the torch
in pocket again, he held the pen
with his lips and came behind the
stretcher where the man was lying.
As he lay carefully, with his heart
beating steadily and excitedly, he
could feel Joe’s trembling hands
pulling the tubes and chords and
wires and all other things that were attached to the big machine
behind him. Just as this was done,
he heaved a sigh of relief.
Next, Joe began to peel the layers
of bandages off one by one,
starting from the back of his head and then unwrapping it carefully
from his face. The man watched as
Joe’s hands went from left to right
, his eyes darting at the movement
of the whole process. Then Joe
stopped and was walking away. At first , the man was confused.
Did Joe change his mind? Would
he not set him loose today? As he
thought all these, he could feel
cold air on his face and that was
when he realized that, his face was freed. He was freed. He
gasped in excitement as he took
his trembling hands to his face.
Touching his skin, his nose, his
lips..
Joe came in holding a very big mirror in his hands which he
carefully set before him.
The man sat upright, slowly but
steadily so he could see his
reflection.
At first everything was blurry but then he saw the man he was. The
scratched that he had seen in the
mirror many months back were
gone. His face was perfect,
smooth, could be called beautiful
in a woman but yet so unfamiliar. “Are you okay budyy?” Joe asked
quietly.
The man nodded and sighed
painfully as he touched his lips
and his prominent jaws… Joe had
fixed him… He looked at the old man. He
desperately wanted to say
something to thank him for his
love and for his support and for
everything but…his tongue felt so
heavy and he could barely move them, so he gave up but only took
Joe’s hands into his, squeezing it
so hard and starring deeply into
his eyes.
“You are welcome son! Do not
worry about your speech. Your body is still in a great shock but
you are healing faster so it will
come slowly. Do not put pressure
into it okay?”
The man nodded.
“So, now that you are here, we need to set you up. Find a name to
be calling you for now and…..”
“Hi Daddy!”
The two men turned towards the
entrance as the owner of the
voice came in. “Oh, Lisa darling. How are you?”
The lady walked in confidently,
her long curly brown hair falling
in soft layers around her bare
shoulders as she unpinned them
from her head. She seemed like a woman who knew the effect her
beauty had on men and she
wasted no time in showing it off.
Her skin was flawless and her
nails were beautifully manicured.
She embraced her father, kissing him on the left cheek before
finally seeing the man and she
shrank back immediately.
“Jesus Christ ! What is that!!” She
shouted. “Daddy give him some
cloth, I am so tired of seeing him naked. It was okay when he was
unconscious but he is awake
now! Argh!!”
AT first, the young man was
startled. He was confused but
when Joe laughed at threw him a blanket, that was when he
realized he had been naked all the
while.
If there was anything more than
embarrassment , that was how he
felt right now! He could barely look at the lady as he quickly
covered his nakedness.
Joe was laughing so hard at the
both of them.
“It’s not funny dad!” The lady
said, punching her father on the arm.
“Sorry girl. Buddy, this is my one
and only daughter and child, Lisa.
She works with me. ”
The poor young man was still
embarrassed so he quickly nodded at her and looked away,
holding the blanket firmly to his
waist.
The lady smiled and moved closer
to him.
“It’s okay . I have seen plenty. I work here with my father so, your
butt is forgotten.”
The man nodded, unable to look
at her. This was more than he
could handle.
“Is he still having speech problem.?” She asked the father
as she studied the man.
“Yes.” Joe replied, taking off the
glasses.
“It is just a temporary thing, right
father?” Joe nodded.
“So I came with a name.” She
continued. “Vincent. We will call
you Vin for short.”
The man starred at her at last and
then at Joe , then he was beginning to relax, he managed
to smile and then nodded.
“Well then Hello Vincent! I hope
you are ready for a new life?” ****** ************
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Meanwhile, this is happening
faraway.
“Freddie! Stop that nonsense! You
are disturbing my sleep!” The beautiful young lady shouted
at her son who was busy jumping
up and down the bed.
She took a deep breath and
covered her face with her hand.
Just then the maid came in. “Mrs Lyon, your husband is
around.”
The boy shouted for joy. “Yay!
Daddy is around!” Then he
jumped down from the couch and
followed the maid. The woman stood up quickly and
went to the mirror. She
straightened her neck and gently
massaged her shoulders. Then
she sighted a picture on the floor
where her son was playing. She gasped and quickly took it. As
she stared at the picture , her face
began to soften up and tears
were beginning to gather…
“What happened to you Fred….?”
“ Darling where are you?” As she heard her husband’s voice.
She quickly threw the picture
under the bed and then cleaned
her face.
The door opened .
“Hey sweety, I missed you.” She said lovingly to her husband.
“ I missed you too Anika.”
