Chapter 19
Aliza pov
I have been home with my son for six months already, both Vera and Martin were over the moon happy with the name I choose for him and to finally meet my son.
We have been happy and at the beginning, I felt as if they both got a bit better but that started to go downhill after only three months.
I do everything I can for them and I have talked about my idea to fix the place up like it was before and they both were happy if I wanted to do it, I haven’t talked to my friends about it yet and I will do it later when my son is a bit bigger. I want to enjoy every time I can get with Vera and Martin before they are no longer with us.
“How about we go and make some breakfast!” I say to my son where he is laying on the bed and babbling and blowing bubbles with his mouth. Picking him up in my arms I head out of the room and go to the kitchen to start the coffee machine, I have already given Noah food and changed his diaper before getting us both dressed.
Usually, I take the breakfast over to their room in the morning and sit beside them with my son, Martin doesn’t have that much energy to move around anymore and I try to do what I can for them.
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Going over to their door I give it a light knock and wait for them to say I can come in, I don’t hear anything from inside the room, and give the door another knock and wait. Still, not a word is heard and I start to get worried.
Holding my son tighter in my arms I slowly open the door to peek inside, the room is dark except for some sun that
shines through the curtain and I see the silhouette of them on the bed.
“Good morning! How is it today?” I say but there is no answer when I walk inside the room and carefully pull the curtains apart and the sun lights up the room.
I stop in my track and forget how to move when I see them both lying on the bed lifeless.
I don’t have to go any closer to know that they have passed away in their sleep!
Vera is laying on Martin’s chest like she is listening for his heartbeat while they are holding hands, they look peaceful.
Tears run down my cheeks and I don’t know what to do or how to be, my mind is blank while I sink down on the chair beside them and can’t take my eyes off them.
They quickly became my family and my best friends, this time I have been here has been the happiest time in my life! I became as complete as I could be with my son and them, we were the family we made and nothing we were born
into.
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I knew they were going to go, that’s not a surprise to me but knowing this happy time we shared will only be in my memory and I’m never going to be able and talk to them again is hard to take in.
My son stirs in my arms and I hold him closer to me when I hear Liz shout from the stairs, looking at the clock I have been sitting in here for more than two hours just looking at them and crying. I didn’t manage to leave them!
“Hey, where are you all!” Liz shouts again and a sob leaves my lips when I hear her come closer to where I am in their
room.
“Oh my! I’m so sorry!” she says and quickly gets over to me and wraps her arms around me, I break down in a sob
“How long have you been in here?” she says to me after a while
“A couple of hours!” I tell her when she lets go of me.
“I will help you with this! Come!” she says and helps me up from the chair, once I’m up I feel how my arms hurt from holding my son in the same position for so long.
“I will call the others!” she says when we walk outside to the kitchen. Everything after that goes by in a blur!
They came and got their bodies and got them to the morgue, the lawyer was by the house and had me to sign the last papers before I got everything.
Vera and Martin had fixed their funeral how everything
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should be and paid for everything before, for me it only came down to setting the date and showing up at their funeral and even that day went by in a blur!
I held a reception after in their old restaurant, my friends helped me to clean it up before we had some coffee after for those that showed up. It was a small number of people that came and I didn’t expect anything else since most of their friends had already passed away.
Once it was over I sat down with my sleeping son beside me in the stroller and looked at the restaurant when Liz and Heidi comes walking over and take a seat beside me at the table.
“What are your plans now?” Heidi asks me while I look down at my son. There has only been a week since they passed away and I have had a lot of time to think it through since I have been all alone in the house.
“I’m going to fix this place up to what it used to be! It’s all too big for me to stay in alone!” I say and turn my head to look at them.
“I think it sounds like a good idea and if you want a roommate I’m looking for a new place to stay! Can’t afford where I am right now!” Heidi says and she is more than welcome to move in with me in one of all the rooms.
“you are welcome anytime you want!” I say when she squeals beside me.
“If she gets to move in then I want to move here as well!” Liz says and I chuckle at her as she sits with a pout on her lips.
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“Of course, you can!” I say and give her a wink.
“Then how about we fix this whole place up and both start a restaurant and fix the other part of the building they never did anything about!” Liz says with enthusiasm in her voice and it’s contagious.
“Yes, why not!” I say to them, I got some money from them and I hope it’s enough to get started with. This is my new life and I only have my son but we are a family and I want to give him the best future I can!
Chapter 20
