LIFE AFTER JACK
Chapter Twenty-One
"Mr. Dawson, your wife would
like to see you," the nurse said.
"Okay. By the way, thank
you…what is your name?"
"Nurse Jill," the nurse
replied.
Nurse Jill walked Jack to Rose’s
room. Rose was breathing hard, and asked Jack to come over to her.
"Jack, what are we naming
the babies?" Rose asked.
"Well, I will pick the boy’s
name, and you can pick the girl’s name," Jack replied.
Rose agreed to this.
"Rebecca Molly Dawson,"
Rose said.
"That is a beautiful name,
Rose," Jack replied.
"What about our baby
boy?" asked Rose.
"Andrew Dakota Dawson,"
Jack said.
"I love the…" Rose
closed her eyes and began breathing very faintly.
Jack thought that Rose was
getting tired. She started murmuring things to Jack.
"I want you to remarry when
I am gone," Rose murmured.
"What do you mean, when you
are gone?" Jack asked Rose.
Rose slowly closed her eyes, and
her breathing slowed even more. Finally, she completely stopped breathing.
Nurse Jill heard Jack screaming and ran in. It took her a couple of minutes to
realize what had happened. She immediately got a doctor, and he rushed in.
"It looks like she had a
stroke," the doctor said.
"No! No! No! No!" Jack
screamed.
He fell to his knees in tears.
Nurse Jill got him up and asked if she could get him something. Jack just ran
out the door and outside. He jumped into the car and drove away. He came to a
bridge and decided he was going to jump off.
"God, why would you do this
to me?" Jack screamed out, sobbing.
He was just about to jump off of
the bridge when he thought about his two little babies at the hospital.
They cannot live their lives
without a mother or a father. What would they think of their parents when they
got older? Jack had all
of these thoughts running through his head at one time. He slowly stepped back
from the bridge and got back into the car.
Jack took his time driving back
to the hospital. He was still crying, but it was not as bad. He walked back
into the hospital and walked to the nursery. He saw his two little babies and
thought about how he was going to raise them alone. Rose had told him to
remarry, but he just could not see himself doing that.
For the rest of the night, he
just stood there, looking at the twins.