Doctor Craig having his morning tea alone in the kitchen. Belle is nowhere to be seen around the apartment so he had to make his own breakfast.
Arman and Mia are still on their bed. Last night he couldn't not sleep as he was thinking about how to get rid himself away from Amy Brickfield.
Belle was right about that bitch. Amy will do anything to have him back by force, yes, she was born into a rich family and top five richest among others in California.
Doctor Craig first met her several years ago inside the coffee store where she accidently bumped into him and the stain of her coffee was on his new shirt.
He wasn't mad at her at all. He is stunned to see Amy for the first time and since then they begin their relationship until he is the one who broke their engagement after finding out who she was.
A motherf*cker spoiled bitch.
He is now draining the orange juice and reading the newspaper about this topic. He sighs harder in the morning.
Finally, he made up his mind. What if she did look after him all the way here.
He jolted when a strong feature walked past behind him. It was Arman who dragged the chair and sat across from him.
His swollen face show it all after waking up. It's funny to see when his hair is messed up. Remind Doctor Craig of his dad, Gibson. Of course, Arman looks exactly like his father.
Like father, like son.
"Bad dream?" Doctor Craig asked. The boy nodded yes. "You two had wrestlers again?"
Arman shook no, the boy spoke. "I lost the game to Mia. How is she so brilliant about everything!" Doctor Craig smiled.
"Because she had your dad's brain". He pointed at the time. "Almost noon. I woke up late. When you grow up you will know how suffer to become an old man like me".
He pushed the plate to Arman. "I cooked a simple breakfast before noon. I hope you like it". Arman reached the sausage without arguing and ate it. "I think your mom is out for business. I guess she is".
"Business on weekends? Nah!" He shoveled the food in his mouth. "Does it hurt, you broke your own engagement?"
Doctor Craig shook no. "I free like a bird. Like I never used to fly before. She's the cages and she kept me inside as her pet. And now she lost her key, I'm free to fly again".
"What a phrase. So you love our mom. Do you intend to marry her?"
Doctor Craig shook his head. "I can't. She is still married to your dad".
"But he's dead! There is no way he is coming back. You will get my blessing, you have been our dad since we were born. You look after us until you are now. Why not marry my mom, Uncle Craig?"
He shook his head again, he said. "I can't, Arman. I do love your mom but not like this. There is something both of you should know and I will say until the day is right to tell.
"Besides this is stupid, your mother will never love me as her husband but her big brother. That is the difference between that meaning".
Doctor Craig breathed heavily. He studied Arman's face with a smile.
"You remind me of your dad. You have his features".
"I may look like him. But I am not a murderer!"
Belle walks through the crowds in the middle of the Time Square as the noon reaches. The weather is kinda cool today. She just came out from the bookstore for a new novel she purchased.
Times Square is a very busy city. The roads are busy, everyone is busy, everything is busy. You could almost lean to someone's shoulder if you walked through the crowds.
She was on call with someone until she bumped into, making her stumbled on her back and the pain she received on her hips. She grip the cellphone tight in her hand, she breathes.
"I'm gonna call you back. Excuse me!". She stood dusting her pants. "Excuse me! I need an apology from you, Sir you bumped into me. Watch your going will you".
A handsome man approached her with guilt. Trying to help her but she refused. "I'm sorry". said the man. "Are you okay?"
"Do I?"
The man feels guilty again. He spoke. "If you are not okay we can go to the clinic if you want. I-I'm sorry. I really am that sorry". She growled.
The man studied her face like he had known Belle before but where. Belle eyes up to him. "Whatever! Never mind, I can go to the clinic by myself if I get hurt. I don't need everyone to help me". She walked but this man said,
"Belle". Slowly she turned to the man. She must be asking herself 'how did this man know her name'. His face lit up unbelievable. "Belle? Belle, it's me. It's me Belle".
She rolled her eyes up annoyedly. "Who are you? And how did you know my name? I don't know you you probably one of my patient I guess but that not possible you look so clean and super f*cking rich". The man smiles then laughs at her. "What's so funny?"
"I cannot believe this, you're still the same girl I know and you never change a bit. Belle. It's me, Jake Harley, your boyfriend".
Belle studied his face and she smiled at him but suddenly. Whamp! Her fist broke Jake's nose, he stumbled on his back holding on his nose. There is blood coming out but not that much. She growled at him.
"Why do you do that?" he asked.
"It's over, Jake! There is nothing between you and me anymore, well of course you need to stay out of this matter because I am not your girlfriend, if I was before you should look after me".
Jake standing up, his eyes wide, said. "You were right about all you said, Belle but there's one thing you don't know. I do try to search for you and my mom forbids me to do it because it could damage our family reputation and our life. What should I do to save you? I was sixteen, Belle we are".
"Without saying goodbye, Jake!" She cried. "You think I want all this to happen to me? No, I don't. My life sucks after I met him while you are moving on with your fancy life". Belle shook her head, "We shouldn't see each other again, Jake this is a mistake".
She turns her heel and again Jake stops her. She looked over her shoulder, he begged her to stay.
"Then tell me everything you have been through with him. I beg you, Belle tell me".
Later. Belle and Jake went to the diner having their first lunch together as an adult. Belle sits silently as Jake studies her face. How he missed Belle so much. He will never forget her face, the face who had stolen his heart even now, he prays that one day they two will meet again.
And today God answered his prayer. They two met in the biggest city of New York. Again, God answered his prayer.
"How's your life after his death?"
She looked up and said, "I carried his baby". Jake closes his eyes for a bit then he opens and looks around the diner. "You don't have to feel sorry for me. I am that unlucky girl".
"No. That's a miracle, Belle. You don't have to say that you were born unlucky, you were already a good mother to your kids without him when you raised them. I am the one who should feel guilty because I was never there for you. I will never forget all those memories we had together".
Belle nods her head, she lifts the spoon and eats. She spoke. "How's your life then?" He smiled and said,
"Same old. After you disappeared your parents came to my house before we moved back in here. I say 'I don't know where you have been' but I do know that Gibson had you after Emma's dead".
He stared at her. She spoke. "I am the one who should say sorry, not you. I betrayed our love for him".
"Doesn't matter anymore, Belle, what's already past, just let it go and now we two have our own life. Mine is mine and your is your. We can't turn that back to the time when we were sixteen and you must know that I will never stop loving you".
Belle snorted, "Even I carried our enemy's child?"
"Those kids are innocent, Belle and I'm glad they already know what kind of their dad was to us". Gently he reached her hand, Belle didn't shoved his hand away. Does she find her new love with Jake again? "I've missed you my very dear Belle".
The morning. Doctor Craig with the twins are going to school using Belle's car as for Belle she uses public transportation going to work.
Parking the car on the side of the road, the twins quickly out from the car. He stopped them.
"Relax. The school bell has not rang yet. So, tell me about this gardener man I heard from your mom. Where is he at?"
Mia points at the back of the building school, exactly the school bell rang Arman and Mia says goodbye to Doctor Craig.
"I'll pick you guys at three then!" He shouted, watching all the students running inside the building.
As for him, gently he's out of the car and locked it then walked to the back of the building.
At first he didn't see him, but then he heard heavy footsteps approaching right in front of him and there he saw the gardener with a tool bag around his waist and a hammer in his hand.
The men look up and stare at each other for a moment. The gardener sighs, Doctor Craig smiling at him.
"Hello brother. Don't you miss me?" The gardener gave Doctor Craig a big hug and cried. "How can you end up here, Gibson? Is it for Arman, Mia or Belle".
The gardener breathed and smiled. "For my family".
The truth was. The gardener is the real Victor Gibson who never will die for that bitch call, Veronica Bilson.
All these years Gibson and Doctor Craig had been lying to Belle and Doctor Craig kept this secret from her. For the sake of her life.
Flashback when Gibson had been involved in a car crash back when he was young and Belle still in her sixteen.
The truck did crash the tree, he survived but not for Veronica Bilson as the seatbelt she was wearing was stuck and couldn't get out.
The truck suddenly caught on fire and burned her inside, he could hear her screaming asking him to help her out.
Victor Gibson tried to help but the explosion took her, he laid unconscious on the ground until the police arrived.
The police are real but for the mortuary, the doctor, the burial and all these scenes are fake according to Victor Gibson's plans that will allow him sentence his life behind the bars on charges of murderer.
He knows Belle is pregnant. He knows the day the twins are born. He knows everything about Belle's daily routine even now.
Thanks to Doctor Craig who kept him update in jail and the photos of Belle and the twins he got from Doctor Craig.
She is the only one who doesn't know that.
Victor Gibson never forgot his responsibility to Belle and two of his children. While he's in jail he also does community service and gets money from that.
From there he learns how to cook, how to sew, how to become a wonderful father to Arman and Mia.
Every year he never missed giving a birthday present to the twins, even Christmas. When Victor Gibson got released from jail for good behavior, he did work at several places until he decided to work at Arman and Mia school as the gardener.
He will see his kids everyday in school including Belle. God has the best plans for him and he will seize that chance to amend for his mistakes he had caused. They will soon have one happy family but just not for now.
They took their seats on the stump. "Why did you break your engagement, Craig?"
"I am not here to talk about me, and I am here to talk about you. So, Belle is here, she saw you, spoke to you. How's that feeling to see your own wife grown as a beautiful woman and a mother of your child who went to school here where you stood?.
"I just want to know how that felt, finally you did. You have your own family you desire. Tell me".
Gibson nodded proudly, Doctor Craig could see his tears as he wiped away with his hand. He spoke.
"She's wonderful. I feel guilty because I wasn't there to see her grow as she is now. When she comes to see me I really want to kiss her lips, hug her and I just want to tell her the truth where I had been".
"She will kill us both someday if she finds out that we lied to her and you are still alive". Doctor Craig breathed with sigh. "You have wonderful twins, Gibson".
"I am. Thank you for always being there for my family without abandoning them the way I did".
There is silence. Gibson spoke back. "In your opinion will she accept me back into her life?"
Doctor Craig shrugged, his eyes studying the window.
"I don't know, Belle is a complicated woman, so I don't know how she felt. If I was Belle, if you ask my opinion I would kill you again!.
'You left me with a child I had to raise them alone, and I survive alone without you'. said Doctor Craig with a woman's voice. Pretending he was Belle.
"I did what you asked me to do for Belle and the twins. Did you really sew, knit all those baby clothes, and toy plush by yourself?"
Gibson nod yes. "Belle once told me the scarves you give her are very comfortable, she is still wearing those scarves when the winter is coming".
"It's premium cotton wool. Special for my lovely wife". He smiled. "No one knows who I was before, Ethan James, just the name I picked from one of the movies".
Doctor Craig frown, said. "That's Ethan Hunt from Mission in Possible".
"So, will they believe me if I say my name is Ethan Hunt?"
Doctor Craig frowned again. "The name doesn't matter now. All that matters is how I can win my wife's heart again".
Doctor Craig sighs, he spoke. "It takes time, brother, you can't just barge in and tell 'I am Victor Gibson' she could get a heart attack".
"A time? I've been watching my kids without them knowing who I am. I don't need time. I just want my family".
"Don't you forget that you also lied to Belle. She won't forgive you. Wanna know why? She start to love and your stupid plans ruin everything".
Gibson growled, and began to chop the wood. "It wasn't a mistake. I had to".
"Then give her time. Slowly we approach, convince her and everything is gonna be fine. Just not now".
Doctor Craig stood up, he smiled up at Gibson. "I'll see you again. I'm afraid the twins will see us here together. Mia already thought you were her dad".
"She should. Because I am"
Doctor Craig nods his head. He turns his heel and walks. "I call you!"