Mr. Swift saw his wife crying again and went to hug her tightly and they both lost themselves by looking at their daughter who is no more for the last time.
A solemn tear fell from Mr. Swift's cheeks.
"She asked me to tell you both something." Nurse Stacy said to the couple who were busy looking at their daughter.
The voice of Nurse Stacy brought them back to their senses and they both turn to her direction after hearing what she said.
"Really! What did she say?" Mrs. Swift was the first one to ask.
"What did she say nurse?" this time it was Mr. Swift who ask.
"Please tell my parents I said I love them very much when they come back please." That was what she said.
Nurse Stacy told them exactly what Vivian asked her to tell them when they return just the way she said while recalling it.
"Thank you." Mrs. Swift thanked her after she told them what Vivian's last words were.
"My condolences ma'am, Sir." Nurse Stacy said to them and gave them her condolences.
"Thank you, dear." Mr. Swift replies to her.
Looking at their daughter with affection in their eyes they say "And we both love you very much too dear." While smiling at her.
And tears drop from Mrs. Swift's eyes but this time she was more calmer than earlier and she didn't sob anymore, because she knows her baby girl won't want her to cry so much as she did earlier.
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A few months later
Slowly! Slowly opening her eyes while regaining cautiousness Anna look around her surroundings, she saw two people in front of her, and beside them was a doctor, and because of his dressing mode, you will know he is one. With two more female nurses beside him.
And the only thing that came out of her mouth was.
"Who are you guys?"
Yes, she means who they are because she doesn't know any of them.
"How are you feeling now?" the doctor asked.
"Am fine doctor". she replied.
"But how did I end up here? How come am in the hospital?" Anna said to herself with a confused expression on her face.
"How are you feeling dear?" Mr. & Mrs. Swift who was in front of her ask.
"Am feeling alright thank you," Anna answers them while looking at them strangely
Mr. & Mrs. Swift who saw the way Anna was looking at them decides to introduce themselves to her.
"Dear, we are Vivian's parents." Mrs. Swift says.
"Yes dear we are, am Vivian's father Edwin Swift and she is her mother Elizabeth Swift." Mr. Swift introduced them formally to Anna.
"Yes dear we are her parent, remember her? She was the one who talked to you when you were still in an induced coma." Mrs. Swift explains to Anna.
"Yes… oh yes, Vivian sh-she…"
"She is no more..."Mrs. Swift said.
Anna "…"
"It's been months since my baby left us, but don't worry we are going to keep the promise we made to her and that's to take care of you, to give you a good life dear and we want to know what happened to you too, because we have not been able to find any lead on your parent, we did all we could and even the young man that brought you guys here also did his best but we couldn't get any information regarding your family." Mrs. Swift said to her.
"And the fact that we also didn't know your name add to it too and made it even more difficult for us to know anything about you dear." Mr. Swift added.
"Oh yes, what happened to her? What is it that happened to her?....yes! She and Leo were in the garden, he was playing and then Jen called her, they were talking to Jen then they heard a gunshot and they went inside through the back door only to see their parents kneeling with their hands behind their heads and they were four men pointing a gun at them…" she stopped.
"Then what dear?" Mr. Swift ask when he saw she stopped midway through.
"Yes tell us everything that happened so we can know how to start helping you." Doctor Vince added.
"And then Dad saw us and he signal for us to run away to me, we did and obey him and when we were able to leave the house and manage to…" she stops again this time with tears filled in her eyes.
"Dear, are you sure you are feeling okay?" Mrs. Swift asks her.
"Yes, it's just that when we manage to leave the house i-it-it exploded with Mom and Dad inside and tho-those men they left and started chasing after Leo and me, we ran a little but the Leo suddenly hugged me and when I turn around to look at him i-I…" She was unable to complete her sentence as her tears split over and flowed down her face like a river escaping a dam.
"oh my goodness dear." Mrs. Swift who was hugging Anna kept weeping uncontrollably.
"And then I realized he was bleeding I checked his back and saw that he was shot." She said and kept sobbing uncontrollably in Mrs. Swift's arms.