Chase and Zuma are sitting on their couch, cuddled together. Zuma puts her head on Chase's chest and just listens to his heartbeat and breathing.
Her attention is drawn to the sound of small steps. She finally looks up and turns when she hears a young voice saying "Mommy?"
She regained consciousness.
The first thing she noticed is that she was in the hospital.
The second was that her right shoulder was fucking hurting.
Third, she felt strangely empty.
The door opened and a Chase entered
- You woke up! Thank God!
She looked at her belly ...
- Chase ... Do I ...
- No! You got contractions while you were unconscious and they had to get her out of you.
- Her?
- We have a baby girl. They're examining her now, but they'll bring her here when they're finished.
- What happened to my father?
- He's dead ... He had a lot of drugs in his blood. When John threw him against the wall it killed him. He was dead before he touched the ground. Anyway, John was at your house and you don't want to know what he found there.
- What? What did he find?
- Lots of our photos from different places. Your name written on the walls with his own blood. Lots of drugs. He found your mom locked in the basement, he took her to him. It wasn't the person we knew anymore.
The nurse came in this way with the bundle in her hands, gave it to Zuma and left.
It was a girl, the color of her skin was something between hers and Chasea, she had her eyes.
- She's beautiful . She whispered
- Just like her mom. Chase said
This was where Casy entered the room, her left arm was bandaged
- They let you walk? Chase asked
- The gunshot is not enough to stop me from seeing zuma, you and ... that baby.
She said leaning in to see.
SEVERAL YEARS LATER
- Which is why mom has the same scar on her arm as Casy's aunt.
His daughter, Ella, after John's deceased wife, was looking at him
Now that she was nine, her hair was zuma long, half dark, half light like his.
- Grandpa was a bad man?
- He was not. He just got lost. You will be older, you will understand ... He heard a car honking ... Grandparents came.
Ella broke up and ran out almost bumping into her mom.
- She is fast.
- I guess it's after me ... said Chase as he walked over to her and put his hand on her stomach ... It means he'll be like you
She giggled
- I hope.