Hit Due the Shuttles Move (Gambol Series #4)

Prolouge

Starting a relationship is easy. Keeping a relationship, though? That's much easier said than done.

Nixie and Haines is a good example. They seemed to have it all. Effort? Consistency? Affection? Love? They all have it. If there was a map to forever, surely they would found it.

But unfortunately not all relationships last with no problems. Haines got in an accident and that accident claimed all of his precious memories and his relationship with Nixie vanish as quickly as deleting a text message on one's cellphone.

"Haines, don't leave me please," Nixie said while running to the E.R. with Haines lying on the bed full of blood.

She continuously murmuring that thought as if Haines is hearing her until they got to the E.R. She cried like a river while waiting outside the E.R. She also called Maxine, Haines's auntie to tell them what happened to him.

"Iha, what happened? Where's Haines?" Maxine asked her the moment she arrived.

"He's in E.R. tita, someone called me and told me what happened to Haines," Nixie answered while crying.

"Oh god!" Maxine exclaimed.

They patiently wait outside the E.R. for almost 5 hours. The moment the doctor got outside the ER they immediately stood up and ask him.

"What happened doc? How's he?" Nixie asked immediately.

"The operation is successful but the patient hit his head and is suffering from a severe concussion. Maraming pwedeng mangyari kapag may head trauma ang isang pasyente. Kung mangyari man 'yon, kailangan natin siyang suriin ulit. He's in coma right now so let's just wait until he wakes up. He will be transferred in his room right away. Pwede niyo na siyang puntahan. I'll go now." The doctor explain to them and smiled before he leave.

As the doctor said a while ago, pinuntahan na nila si Haines ng malipat na sa kwarto niya at nakitang payapa itong natutulog. Puro galos ang katawan niya. Wala silang nagawa kundi umiyak at titigan lang siya dahil sa kalagayan niya.

Two weeks after, Haines woke up na hindi inaasahan ng kanyang Tita at ni Nixie. Sabi kasi ng doctor sa kanila ay mga three weeks o higit pa ang posibilidad na magising siya. Agad na lumapit ang dalawa kay Haines na iniikot ang paningin sa buong kwarto, ng mahinto ang tingin nito sa kanila.

"Thank God, your awake! How are you feeling?" Tanong agad sa kanya ni Nixie.

"I'm g-good," Nanghihina pang sagot ni Haines.

"God, you make me, us so damn worried about you," Nixie told him at hindi na niya napigilan pang maluha ulit. "I don't know what to do kapag nawala ka sa 'kin," Dagdag pa niya.

Patuloy lang sa pagsasalita si Nixie pati na rin ang Tita niya ng magsalita si Haines na nagpabigla sa kanila.

"Who are you?" Haines asked.

Nagkatinginan naman si Nixie at Maxine sa pagkabigla at tinignan nilang muli si Haines na bakas sa mukha niya ang pagtataka kung bakit ganun nalang ang reaksiyon ni Nixie. Dahil doon ay muli na namang naiyak si Nixie.

Can Nixie find the happy ending to their love story? Kung ngayon na hindi siya maalala ni Haines at kung paano ito nagsimula? Can Haines overcome his doubts and see the truth in Nixie's action? Matulungan kaya siya ng puso at isip niya na maalala ang lahat ng nangyari, meron sila at ng maaring mangyari pa sa kanila?

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