Another chance

Chapter 6:

Julia Josen née Corvin had once sat down and plan what she wanted to do with her life. She had planned finish school, go to college, and get a great paying job and later marry. When she married, she had planned to wake a little for having kids. Yes, that had been a good plan. Julia had managed to finish high school while some of her friends and cousins would drop out when they became pregnant. Using every cent that she would earn she began to go to college. Her parents would help her by paying half of her tuition and by letting her stay home (but she still had to pay some rent). It seemed that everything was going the way she had planned it when she was 13 years old, what Julia had not planned was getting pregnant

Back then, she had thought that getting pregnant while she was halfway to college had been the worst thing that could have happened to her, but that change when she heard her baby's heart beat for the first time. Her beloved grandparents, her grandfather Michael (whom she later named her firstborn after) and grandmother Mila took her and after her parents kicked her out telling that the only way that she could ever come back was if she had an abortion. Julia never went back, never called them again (not even when Michael was born), she didn't even invite them to her wedding nor to celebrate the birthdays for children.

During her baby shower, a cousin of hers had "asked" to know who her baby's daddy was. Julia you how her cousin was, she would try to get any secret that you have been spread it around and she wouldn't leave you alone until she got what she wanted.

"Come on Julia tell us who's your baby's daddy." Donna had kept asking her that for the past few weeks each time she had asked her when they were alone but this time she said it in front of all the women, which immediately grabbed their attention. "Come on, we all want to know who's that baby's daddy."

Julia looked around the room, most of the cousins in some of the aunts and friends were nodding, but there were others that were trying to look uninterested, but there were few who were giving Donna dirty looks.

"I was under a lot of stress that week," Julia began. "The boyfriend that I had nagging me to have sex with him. I kept having exam after exam that whole week. All I wanted to do that Friday when I got home was take a shower and relax. What I didn't plan finding my so-called boyfriend in my bed with you," she said looking at Donna. Now everyone was giving Donna a dirty look. "I got angry of what I just saw him doing but I was more heard that it was with one of my family. I went to a bar, got drunk, and ended up waking in a hotel room in the arms of a man named Alexander Corvinus; who is older than grandpa."

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Julia was putting away all of the present before going to bed when her grandpa knocked on her door before entering.

"Julia," her grandfather began after helping her with the heavier stuff. He sat on her bed and she sat beside him. "Are you sure that the man, the father of your baby, was really named Alexander Corvinus?"

"As far as I remember, yes"

"I do not know what you're going to name your baby but I will give you an advice, do not give him the last name of Corvinus."

"I wasn't planning to, grandpa"

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When Michael was born her grandfather once again warned her not to give him the Corvinus name. Julia never understood why but she did what her grandfather had told her, and when she asked him why all he said was "it's to protect him Julia, your son is special". Julia re-met Norman when Michael was only few months old, she and Norman had been good friends since they were children up until their sophomore year in high school when his parents moved to another city. Norman had always treated Michael like a son even before the two them had gotten married and even after they started having children.

She quit her part time job and became a stay home mom and babysitter for her nieces and nephews. She noticed quickly that her son was different from the other children. The boy almost never got sick but Julia had always thought that that was because Michael had a better immune system than the rest. The chickenpox only lasted a day and half with him while for the rest of the children 1-2 weeks. From that time on, she had kept a closer eye on her first-born recording everything in a notebook anything that would happen to him or his younger siblings and the cousins that she would take care of. Julia did not need to worry that her brothers and sisters in-laws would get angry with her for what she was doing she had gotten their permission first.

With this "records", she immediately saw the deference between Michael and the rest of the children. Like all children Michael would play, run, jump, and get into fights; but while the rest of the children healed normally, her boy did not. Michael healed fast, superfast, near instantly and this was what scared her most. Julia knew that this was not normal; not for a child, not for an adult not for a human being. Many nights she had the awake wondering what was wrong with her son, how long will he have this fast healing ability? Get her that one day he would realize this and do something stupid or that the fast healing would go away when he most needs it. Now it seemed that the latter true.

Michael laid in one of the hospitals bed in the ICU ward. It was too early to know what was wrong with him that doctors had said when Michael was first brought in, but that had been three days ago and yet he still hadn't gotten better. And Julia was scared for her son. Michael had not woke up once in the past the days since he been in the hospital. Every few hours a family member will call see if there was any news and let her know that her younger children were doing okay.

Julia grabbed a towel off Michael's forehead using it to clean the sweat off his face before rinsing it in the cold water and placing it back on his forehead. The doctors had given Michael some medicine to help with the fever but it was not working. NOTHING WAS WORKING! She just hoped that scans that the doctors took of Michael's brain would shed some light on what was wrong with her son.

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