LOVE STORY

True Love Wins 

‘’he is drowning! My son is drowning! Somebody, anybody, save him!’’, Lexi kept shouting.

‘’doctor, her condition has become progressively worse. She keeps screaming; save him, he’s drowning. Doc, you’ve got to do something. We’re losing her. She does not even remember us, her own children’’

‘’let me examine her again’’
‘’do go ahead’’

(Lexi is a 65 year old female, with three children, all women. She had been previously diagnosed with hypertension and insomnia. Arthritis later set in. She is menopausal and is now experiencing upscale levels of hallucinations).



‘’she is suffering from dementia; that’s why she can’t remember you. It seems she has not followed through with her hormone therapy. The anti-depressants are not working. I have prescribed some new medications. I would need you to keep a close eye on her. Inform me of any changes in her condition. I would send a psychiatrist over to examine her. We have to get to the root of these hallucinations.’’


Jackson, the psychiatrist came to evaluate her condition the next day. He was shocked when he saw Lexi. The shadows from the past were surely creeping on him. Lexi is his ex-wife. He did not want to refuse giving treatment to her (as he was loyal to the Hippocratic Oath). He contemplated with the idea of revealing his identity and history to Lexi’s kids.

Everyone had realised how Jackson’s presence had changed Lexi. Lexi was so lifted and happy when Jackson was around. He once kissed her softly on her lips. Let’s get some facts straightened out.
Jackson got married again but never had any children from that relationship. His wife died of thyroid cancer.

One day as he was making out with Lexi during one of the sessions, she became lucid.
''what are you doing here? Jackson? ‘’, she screamed out loud. That attracted the attention of her children who happened to be around at that time.

He left.

Three weeks later, he called the Lexi’s children into his office.
Ps:  should a bunch of twenty something year olds be called children?

‘’As you might have already known by now, your mother was my wife. Twenty two years ago, we went on a family vacation at lapara beach. You were little then. You had a big brother Jeff at that time’’, he cried as he narrated the story.

‘’your mother went to the room with the three of you. Jeff and I played in the sand. I went to the stand to get bottles of cold soda. I came back only to see Jeff drowning. Your mum never stopped blaming me for his death. I did not get divorced from your mother because of that. The divorce happened after I caught her sleeping with the gardener in my own house. I left the country a few months after the incidence. But I still love your mother; I would re-enter her life if she allows me. Please, I am sorry for abandoning you when you needed me the most. Please forgive me, forgive me for everything.’’

What do you think would happen next?  

still smiling in the dreamworld...