Kath and Nick walked out of the hospital, hand in hand, neither of them
saying anything. They didn't know what to say. Nothing was going to change
what they had just been told. Change the fact that Kath was dying. They
walked across the car park, not really sure where they were going, just
walking.
They eventually came to the park and managed a smile as they saw children playing in the late afternoon sun. They sat down on the grass and looked like any ordinary, happy couple, she on her back with her head on his stomach, him smiling and stroking her hair while he talked. She looked really happy, on the outside. It was her wedding day after all, but on the inside she was devastated and confused, unable to get her head around what she had just been told. That she was dying.
NICK: You.you know I'm.I'm gunna be here for you don't you.
Tears began forming in his eyes once again, unable to imagine his life, his world, without her being in it
Kath nodded her head. She knew that if she opened her mouth to speak she would be unable to hold the tears back any longer, and she knew that she would never stop.
NICK: I...I love you Kath, you know that don't you
Kath gently nodded once again and Nick lent down and kissed her head. Kath closed her eyes. It was all she could do to stop the tears from escaping and running down her face.
'Why? Why me?' she thought, 'why now? Just when I've found happiness.' She remembered all the times that she would have been glad to learn that she was dying. Glad to escape her life, the hell that she was living. There had been times that she had wished that she could curl up and die, because it seemed the better option. A way out. A way out of being a human punch bag night after night. A way out of having to lie to everyone around her about how she got the latest bruise, the latest black eye. A way out of having to explain to Danny about what his father was really like. But now. Now she didn't need a way out. She didn't want a way out. What she wanted was to be with Nick. To spend many happy years with him. Just lying in his arms, being with him, made her feel safe, secure and happy. Feelings she liked. Feelings she had never felt before. But now she was being given a way out, without a choice and there was nothing she wanted least, and nothing she could do about it.
Nick continued stroking Kaths hair, gently brushing away from her face. He still couldn't believe what was happening. How could he have gone from being so happy this morning, to feeling like his, feeling like he had had his heart ripped out. Today had been his wedding day, the happiest day of his life, but it had been taken away so suddenly. They were supposed to be going on their honeymoon tomorrow, instead they would be going to the hospital, and know that Kath would never come out again.
They eventually came to the park and managed a smile as they saw children playing in the late afternoon sun. They sat down on the grass and looked like any ordinary, happy couple, she on her back with her head on his stomach, him smiling and stroking her hair while he talked. She looked really happy, on the outside. It was her wedding day after all, but on the inside she was devastated and confused, unable to get her head around what she had just been told. That she was dying.
NICK: You.you know I'm.I'm gunna be here for you don't you.
Tears began forming in his eyes once again, unable to imagine his life, his world, without her being in it
Kath nodded her head. She knew that if she opened her mouth to speak she would be unable to hold the tears back any longer, and she knew that she would never stop.
NICK: I...I love you Kath, you know that don't you
Kath gently nodded once again and Nick lent down and kissed her head. Kath closed her eyes. It was all she could do to stop the tears from escaping and running down her face.
'Why? Why me?' she thought, 'why now? Just when I've found happiness.' She remembered all the times that she would have been glad to learn that she was dying. Glad to escape her life, the hell that she was living. There had been times that she had wished that she could curl up and die, because it seemed the better option. A way out. A way out of being a human punch bag night after night. A way out of having to lie to everyone around her about how she got the latest bruise, the latest black eye. A way out of having to explain to Danny about what his father was really like. But now. Now she didn't need a way out. She didn't want a way out. What she wanted was to be with Nick. To spend many happy years with him. Just lying in his arms, being with him, made her feel safe, secure and happy. Feelings she liked. Feelings she had never felt before. But now she was being given a way out, without a choice and there was nothing she wanted least, and nothing she could do about it.
Nick continued stroking Kaths hair, gently brushing away from her face. He still couldn't believe what was happening. How could he have gone from being so happy this morning, to feeling like his, feeling like he had had his heart ripped out. Today had been his wedding day, the happiest day of his life, but it had been taken away so suddenly. They were supposed to be going on their honeymoon tomorrow, instead they would be going to the hospital, and know that Kath would never come out again.