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“That is hard to say,” Doctor Sean continued, “like I said the last time. She could leave us anytime and
it is also possible that she’d be in pain like now and last another year or two.” “Being in pain like this…”
Meredith murmured under her breath, “Yeah, every day is torture for Nia.” Nodding his head, Doctor
Sean replied, “That is why I’ve tried to persuade you to bring Nia home, to stop her from having to
suffer all this pain.” In other words, the doctor was telling her to give up. Meredith knew better that Nia
would not make it through more than a few days as soon as she left the hospital grounds.
Walking out of the doctor’s office, Meredith felt as if her soul had left her body, and all that was left was
an empty shell.
Just the thought that Nia would get weaker by day, and the pain that she had to suffer would grow by
the day, Meredith desperately wished that she could suffer all the pain for Nia instead. But she still
could not bring herself to just sit around and count down the days that Nia had left.
After crying for a while outside Nia’s ward, Meredith finally entered the room.
Nia had woken up from her nap. Perhaps the medication had worn off, and Nia looked slightly worse
than before.
Nia could only call out to Meredith in a soft and weak voice.
But she still wore a sweet smile on her face. It was as if she was saying to Meredith, ‘Welcome back,
Mommy.’
“You’re awake, darling?” Feeding her some water, Meredith then asked, “How are you feeling? Would
you like me to hold you?” “Okay.” Nia nodded.Meredith lifted Nia into her arms and planted a kiss on Nia’s cheeks. “Nia, it’s been such a long time
since we had a heart-to-heart talk. Shall we have one now?
Nodding her head, Nia replied cheerfully, “Sure!”
Tracing her fingers around Nia’s small hands that were covered with injection marks, Meredith asked,
“You must be sad that you can only stay in the hospital when other kids get to go to school and play,
right?” Nia nodded weakly. “Mommy, I want to go to school and play with the other kids too. I will take
my medicine so that I can get better faster.” “You are already doing a good job, sweetheart.” Nia had
been a good girl, and a brave one. But the heavens did not seem to give her a chance to get better.
Doctor Sean was right. It was cruel to put Nia through such pain.
“Nia, what is it that you want to do the most now?” Meredith asked.
“What do I want to do the most?” Turning her head to look at her mom, Nia’s eyes shot wide open.
“Anything?”
“Mm…”
“The thing that I want to do the most is of course to stay together with you and daddy.”
“What else?” That was too unrealistic and there was no way for Meredith to fulfill that wish of hers.
“To get to go to school?”
That was unrealistic too.
“What else, darling?”
“To be able to play the piano on stage, to have a lot of people clapping for me.”“That…” Hesitating, Meredith nodded. “sounds doable.”
novelbinMeredith could not fulfill Nia’s other two wishes but she was able to fulfill Nia’s wish of playing the piano
on stage. Meredith decided that she would help Nia achieve her dream. Even if it meant that she would
have to pay the audience to clap for Nia.
With this in mind, Meredith started looking up on the internet places where Nia could perform. She
found a few and had contacted them but most of them had rejected her idea when they heard that it
was a three-year-old girl who was going to perform.
At her fourth attempt, when she asked them if they needed a performance, they replied, “No, we’re not
looking for any performing guest, thank you.” “Wait a second.” Meredith pleaded politely, “I don’t need
you to pay for our performance. I’ll pay you if you provide me a platform for us to perform.”