Me: I'm so glad everyone liked my previous story.
Well, now I got a new one for you!
Judging by how many liked the other one, I just know you'll like this too.
Enjoy! ;)
Years Ago
Never say love is blind, for it could come up to you when you least expect it and suddenly you'll find yourself in love.
That happened to one woman named Valka. She was a woman with the voice of an angel who played guitar and had her very own microphone. She longed to be a singer, but that wasn't meant to be.
You see, Valka didn't view love necessary in life for love never came to her, an orphan growing up and an orphan as an adult. Then one day, she meets a police chief named Stoick Haddock.
At first, Valka didn't know how to feel about the man, though, she was soon overcome with love and fell for the man. After so many dates, Stoick asked Valka to marry him. Valka didn't say no. Thus, a wedding happened and Stoick and Valka were married and were off to a happy new start as husband and wife.
How Valka wished she said no.
Stoick's true colors were revealed. Valka couldn't go anywhere without someone with her and with Stoick's permission. She couldn't talk to people, she couldn't go outside like she used to, but most of all, she was banned from singing, sometimes she truly loved.
An angel, who lost her voice.
He beat her, forced her into a closet where he would keep her for days, only opening the door to give her food and water. Valka grew to hate the man she foolish fell in love with, his charms beckoning her. She longed to leave the man she grew to hate. But she couldn't and why couldn't she when she could just pack her stuff and walk out the door?
Her son.
Her son, whom she gave birth to, to whom she and Stoick gave life to. Her son, who needed food to drink and fluids to drink as he got older. Her son, who needed shelter from the weather. Her son, who won't survive on the streets at this time.
Valka had no choice but to stay with Stoick. She was allowed outside more since people wanted to see her son, her baby, but Valka trusted no one who was friends with Stoick or worked for him.
She discovered Stoick's hidden agenda. People who he saw unimportant, in the way, or people who wronged him, sometimes, even people who she talked to, he would forge fake papers of crimes to didn't commit. This will either make the people lose their job or tossed in jail, sometimes even prison.
And Valka couldn't do anything but watch as those people's lives were ruined.
Some people came together, led by a man filled with revenge because his family was killed by corrupted officers hands. When he escaped his own prison, he led an assault on Stoick's house, only to kidnapped Valka. He wanted Stoick to confess or he would kill Valka. Stoick wouldn't confess.
Valka talked to one of the people following the man, a woman named Scarlet, whose husband was killed in prison and her only teenage daughter, a barren, unable to create her own family when she got older because doctors couldn't help in time cause they were arrested. Valka told her that Stoick would hurt her child, that she needed to protect her son and had to leave.
Scarlet, knowing that a mother should protect her son, helped Valka escape.
Valka ended up back at the house, only for Stoick to tell her that she will never leave the house again. He told everyone that she was too afraid to set foot outside and they felt for his lie, his charm fooling them.
Valka raised her son the best she could, teaching him all she knew, protecting him from Stoick the best she could, crying when she saw her son come home with bruises from bullies. When Stoick was at work, Valka would sing for her child, sing him to sleep or after he woke from a nightmare, sing to him in the bath, sings to him while they were playing.
When her son was only eight, Valka told her son about her life, how she meant and fell for Stoick, how he tricked her, why she didn't leave the house, how she protected her son, what Stoick did to innocent people, and what love really meant.
Love was when you protected someone you cared about from getting hurt, even if it means getting hurt themselves. Love was when you never cared about the way the one you loved was and who they were. Love was something that brings people together closer than others.
True love was something she wanted her son to find, but not to let it blind him as it did her.
But it brought her something she wouldn't regret, her son.
Then one day, when her son was ten, Valka fell ill and fainted in the living room. The police were alerted by her son's screams and wails and the only reason Stoick took Valka to the hospital was to keep his appearance. Then was there Valka was diagnosed.
Leukemia, the cancer of blood-forming tissues, hindering the body's ability to fight infection.
She was dying.
Still, Valka had the doctors check her son and they found that her son took more after his father in blood. That was the only time Valka was glad her son shared blood with Stoick. Doctors gave Valka about four months to live. She made it to four years.
Valka taught her son how to cook and clean, taught him how to take care of himself. She brought him to parks, brought him on walks, stared at the moon and stars with him, and when Stoick wasn't around, Valka would take the guilter and microphone out from underneath her son's bed, the both of the singing quietly in case Stoick came home they would hear him.
They would pretend that they were singing loudly, nothing keeping them down. They would pretend the guitar was plugged in, the music coming off in waves as and the microphone blasted their voices, an audience cheering their names.
Her son promised her that one day, he would sing for her in front of real people, taking her dream and making it his. Valka couldn't have smiled any brighter.
Through all that, Valka got sicker, but she still walked around.
Then, when her son was fourteen, Valka fell down and she couldn't get help. Her son called 911 in a panic and Valka was brought to the hospital. Doctors later confirmed it, Valka was rapidly losing the battle, she wouldn't survive the day.
Valka knew Stoick was on his way, to keep up his appearance, so she called in her son and asked the doctors she wanted some time alone with her son, then asked for the Doctors to check him again for Leukemia was last time. They took the blood from her son to check, to fulfill the dying mother's wishes for leaving the mother and son alone.
Valka held her crying son close as he cried into her chest. She knew it was her time, so she decided to sing her son the song she always sang him when she put him to sleep.
Be brave, little one, make a wish for each sad little tear.
Hold your head up though no one is near.
Someone's waiting for you.
Her son looked up at his mother as she sung out loud for the first time in years, tears falling down his face. He was gripping tightly onto his mother like he could stop her from dying and leaving him.
Don't cry, little one, there'll be a smile where a frown used to be.
You'll be part of the love that you see.
Someone's waiting for you.
Valka smiled at her son, sadness in her gaze. She nuzzled her head against her son, her baby, the boy she raised since birth. Her son was going to grow up the rest of the way without her.
Always keep a little prayer in your pocket and you're sure to see the light.
Soon there'll be joy and happiness and your little world will be bright.
Valka placed a hand on her son's chest. Her son covered her hand with his own, casting his own smiled, his gaze sad like his mothers. Valka leaned back into her bed, she could hear Stoick yelling at doctors about why he couldn't see his wife.
Have faith, little one, 'til your hopes and your wishes come true.
You must try to be brave, little one.
Someone's waiting to love you.
Her son looked at the door, but Valka brought his eyes back to her with a simple hand on the chin. Taking her son's hand into her's, Valka smiled at her boy, her son, her baby.
She didn't want Stoick to be the last face she'll see, when she wanted the last face she'll see, was her son.
Her little Hiccup.
Seconds after Valka finished singing, she closed her eyes and flatlined. Hiccup wailed and Doctors rushed into the room, trying to bring Valka back to life, to no prevail. Valka Haddock died holding the hand her son after singing to him one final time.
That night, Hiccup promised that when the chance came, he would leave and reveal Stoick's corrupted ways.
He just had to brave and wait.
Me: How many of you cried while this or after reading it?
I didn't expect to do all this, but things kinda piled together and well, it's just fit.
The song, 'Someone's Waiting for You' is from the movie, 'The Rescuers'.
