Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2017 03:18:21 +0000 From: Harry Scott Hayden Subject: "It Has Always Been You" - Chapter 46 - Surreal @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ A disclaimer: This story is fictional. Some of the things that happened or will happen to Michael and Nick. Parts of the characters are fictional as well. All other characters were made up and any similarities are just coincidental. This is a gay romance between teenage boys, there may be sex, but for the most part, it's about their true love of each other so if that offends you, please discontinue reading. Also, if it is illegal for you to read such material, you have been warned. I hope you're enjoying it and that the story draws you in wanting more. If you have any suggestions or concerns, do not hesitate to email me at harryscotthayden@outlook.com Thoughts and suggestion are always welcome and may or may not be implemented. Concerns will be considered and addressed as much as possible. AND, if you enjoy the stories on Nifty.org, please give a donation to help cover their expenses. While the site is currently free, donations only from Loyal fans can help keep it that way. Any amount will help. http:// www.donate.nifty.org /donate.html @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ "It Has Always Been You" - Chapter 46 - Surreal (Nifty/Gay/Highschool) It was one week before graduation. Nick and Mikael felt nervous and a bit anxious. Amazingly, both did very well in the year-end examination. With great magnification and gratification, Mikael was the valedictory speaker for the class of 2016 and Nick, incomprehensibly had a high enough grade-point average to make him the school salutatory speaker. He ranked second highest in the graduating class. Nick was emotionally ecstatic when he got his result. He could not believe he was this good academically and was grateful for not doing well last year. However, he was not referring to his studies; he was thankful to come back again and to find his soul mate in Mikael. It is meant to be shared and presented at the one you love. He was glad that he had managed to realize, that there is nothing wrong to love a guy and being gay. He made to believe for as long as you have not committed any crime, you are free to love anyone, and he found that in Mikael. Amazingly, he did extremely well. It was better than last year. He was glad that he had made the right decision in doing his high school education again. And what that makes him the happiest guy, the knowing of having Mikael in his life to love and be desired. So much happened to him throughout the year. There was the blown-out situation between him and Nick. Subsequently, there was Sandra the drama queen and next Drake, the guy who took his virginity and silently cheated on him. There were also the unforgettable horrendous scenes with Nick's mother, which ends up with the Cornelly's household to break up. However, the biggest surprised by it all was the revelation of their fathers, finding comfort, companionship and falling in love with one another. No other normal person will be kept away from being insane with all that chaos and drama, but he did it. He made everyone proud, especially his father, who is always there supporting and encouraging him. He had given him lots of sound advice that had kept him from going wayward and turned deranged. His father had openly accepting his way of life and was now, by experience it himself, had made them closer than they had already been. Their love of father and son was profoundly displayed for all to see. Nick was doing pretty much the same with his father. They are more vocally inclined to each other than before. Nick was finally happy to see that his father looked extremely full of life with his new-found love in Mikael's father. He and Mikael do giggled and cringed at the same time, with the thought of their father being together, doing what every gay couple is doing in the room right beside them. The afterglow that both father shown after their rendezvous, was spiritedly beaming on their faces. It was the impact of a good, love-making and a loving companion. However, hidden behind the happy face, no one else knew, not even the boys. The father worried about their future as a family. They really want to make the relationship to last, and yet they have the skepticism of other people, which had known them, to how they would have reacted. They saw enough through the life of Nick and Mikael to know that there are still homophobic people who have an interest to humiliate others of different sexuality. They vowed of being strong for each other and for the boys too. Nick and Mikael kept themselves busy. They were preparing speeches for them to talk at the graduating ceremony. It was not as easy as it looked. They were to enunciate all about the acquirement and down fall of class 2016 and making sure the speech will be on a positive note representing the rest of their peer's endeavors in the future. As all of them were going into adult life in college and beyond. -----------------------------------*-------------------------------------- Hayden went back to his daily life routine working for the hospital. There were instances where he had to do emergency operations and for the rest of his time, he went to visit his patients in the hospital ward. He pragmatically loved his job so much. It was every appreciation to his then sweetheart back in high school. She had him enthusiastic in practicing medicine in college and universities. She was non-other than Mikael's mother, Sarah, the love of his life. Sarah was the one who saw the goodness in him. She had perceived how passionate he was in caring for sick people during the time when they were volunteering at the old folk's home in their state of Wyoming. She was also the one who kept on encouraging and telling him of his skilled in healing people and how compassionate he was. She was the motivator. It was installed in him that propelled him to work and study hard in achieving his dream gold in becoming a doctor and a surgeon. In the end, he graduated with a medical degree, specializing in heart and brain. The day they got married, had given him that glimmer of a future. They were blessed by GOD with a beautiful son, Mikael. Their existences appeared perfect and complete. However, it all came crashing down when they got the news of her impended suffering from brain cancer. Her health began deteriorating. She had succumbed to her illness as she got fainter and weaker by the day. All the medication that was prescribed was unsuccessful in helping her to heal. She went through multiple test and medical procedure, chemotherapy and radiation. However, her body was rejecting all the medication and treatment that were given to her. The only thing left to do, was for her to go under the knife to liberate her of the cancerous cell. She requested him to do it. Flashback It was the night before the operation. Both were in the private ward, with Sarah lying comfortably on the hospital bed and Hayden was sitting on a chair beside her, holding on to her hands ever so tightly. His heart broke seeing her trying to stay positive and putting a brave front. Mikael at that time was only 14 years old and was sleeping on the long sofa against the wall. He was oblivious to his surroundings. "Honey, you need to rest. Please go and have some shut eyes. You will have a big job tomorrow, remember." Sarah was coaxing Hayden to rest. Nevertheless, Hayden was so stubborn and would not heed to Sarah's directive. "I won't be able to rest peacefully, knowing that you are sick, baby." Hayden sniffs a tear that ran down on one side of his face. Sarah reached out her hand and wipes away the tear of her husband with her thumb. She grazed her thumb gently over his rough manly skin of his handsome face. "I am not so sure if I can do it. I do not want anything wrong to happen." More of his tears began cascading from both of his eyes as his voice his concerned to her. "Please do not cry and be strong for me. I need you to be in your best form before you go and do the operation on me." Sarah was pleading with Hayden to comply with her instructions. She knew what to come to her, and she tried to stay positive for the sake of her family. No one ever knew how petrified she was when told of her stage of brain cancer. All the while, the continuous headache she had been due to a migraine or over working the brain. "I am scared Sarah. That I will make mistakes during the operation, and eventually I end up losing you forever. I do not want all that to happen." Hayden sounded sad. He did want to face the possibilities of losing Sarah. He had his hand, interlinking with Sarah. He never wants, not to feel of her touch. She is his life, and he loves her so much. "Nothing will happen to me baby. Let us submit all the provisions in the hands of God, because only he knows the path of our life that we are supposedly to take and how long the journey will be." Sarah was being wise with her words with Hayden. She does not want him to feel pressured and broken hearted if something did go wrong. "But I do not want anything to happen to you dear. You are everything for me and me..." Hayden abruptly stops speaking as he felt the lump down his throat. Sarah was gently rubbing his arm, and it gave him that sense of loving proximity towards her. "Honey, if something did ever happen to me; I want you to promise me that you will move on, live your life, be happy and please take good care of our little boy. He's going to need you more when he goes to adulthood." Sarah began to cough a little, and it got a panicked response from Hayden, who immediately went to the side table, pour a glass of water and feed her. Sarah took a few sips and cooled down. "Please promise me honey, please." Sarah looked straight into Hayden teary eyes and rests on her head back on to the pillow and gently breath herself to sleep. "I promise." Hayden silently whispered into her ears and leaned back in his chair and sighed deeply. He turned to look at the sleeping Mikael and said, "I promise Sarah." The very next day, there was a scurried of people inside the room. Hayden had already woken up and had himself prepared for the appending operation of his wife. He had instructed a nurse to wait on Mikael as he was still fast asleep and would not want him to feel worried about his mother. Sarah was prepped up and was wheeled over to the operating theater. All the necessary protocol was followed; all tools and instruments were sterilized again as a precaution. Sarah was wide awake when she was pushed into the operating room. She took a glance around and saw many people, donning the same outfit standing around her. She got overwhelmed and immediately in search for her husband who was standing beside her. She reached out her hand for him to hold and gave it a gentle squeeze. Hayden reciprocated as he instructed for a senior nurse to administer an anesthetic to his wife. It induced an immediate loss of consciousness, so he can go ahead with the operation. However, before she lost total consciousness, she took a look at Hayden for a last time and mouth the word "Good bye." Hayden took all the necessary precaution to do the operation with less invasive. The first cut to the Sarah bald head was the most difficult he had ever done. All the time during the surgery, he continually was asking the nurse to check on her statistic and did immediate remedy if something did crop up. Midway during the operation, the pulse and blood pressure monitoring machine began to beep rather alarming. Everyone in the room immediately got into action and does everything that they could. Hayden remained calm throughout the commotion and tried to remedy the cause of action. He later found out that part of the brain vessel that carries the blood had to burst, and he eventually took action to close it back. This bleeding caused a hemorrhaged, and it increases in pressure over the brain nerve, to reach alarmingly high levels, leading to either unconsciousness or death. Hayden had somehow known that he had lost his wife, when the life support machine had gone into a straight line graph. He stopped everyone from moving and asked them to prepare for closure. Everyone was stunned with his instruction, and yet they had respected him enough to follow. "Nurse Martha, write this in the chart. The time of death is 11.00 in the morning. The reasons of death, severe brain hemorrhages due to the bursting of the main blood vein." Hayden wanted to scream out loud from feeling so hurtful. He asked the nurses to clean Sarah's body and prepare her to be transferred to the mortuary for a post mortem. Hayden walked away from the Sarah body as she laid stone-cold on the operating table and went to the clean-room faucet to clean him up. He did not respond to any call of his name and walked straight to his office. Once he was in his office confinement, he locked the door and immediately dropped upon his knee. He instantaneously bursts crying out loud, so hard that his eyes began to hurt. As much as he wanted to blame himself for the failed operation, he remembered Sarah's words to him. He was to let GOD to decide for the outcome. He makes himself believe that Sarah is in a better place than he is and angels are taking care of her. He still felt contented to be the one to tell Mikael of his mother passing. Surprisingly, Mikael was rather calm when he got the news from his father. He somehow knew that his mother will be going away from him. Mikael did not tell anyone about the dream he had while he was sleeping at the ward. "Mikael wakes up my son." The voice was so angelic, and it makes him smile even when his eyes were still closed. He heard the voice again and began to rub his sleepy eyes and opening it slowly. His eyes were immediately blinded by bright lights, and he tried to get it fully adjusted. He was amazed to see the surrounding, beautiful open field with blooming colorful flowers swaying gently to the slumber of the wind. In front of him stood his mother, looking more attractive and radiant in her long flowing white dress. "Mother, is that you? Where are we now, mother?" Mikael ran to his mother and held on to her tight. She gently caressed his silky blond locks tenderly. "It is me, Mikael. We are in the realm of your dream, and I have something to talk to you, and I need you to listen to it tentatively and carefully. Will you do that for me my son?" Sarah spoke in Mikael's ears. At the age of fourteen, Mikael has been already able to stand at the same height as her. "I can do that mother. Are you feeling alright? You are not hurting in any way?" Mikael began to worry to what his mother going to say to him. He knew that she was suffering from the dreaded illness. He became overly concerned for her health. However, by the looked he saw on her right then; she was so calm, looked healthy and serenely beautiful. "I am now Mikael." She pulled him down to sit on her lap as she cradles his body into hers. His head leaned to her chest, and he could hear her heart beat drumming in a sweet lullaby." Mikael, I would not be long in the life with you and your father. I am going to a place, where all my pain will be gone, and I will not suffer anymore." Sarah was in tears, as she held Mikael tightly. She did not want him to see her crying. "Do you understand what I am trying to say Mikael?" Mikael did not verbally answer to her. However, he nodded his head gently in understanding. He was in a conflicting emotion at that time. He felt sad that he was losing his mother to an illness. At the same time, know that his mother was not ever going to feel anymore pain in her life. Nevertheless, standing in front of him was a beautiful angel who radiates loves, serenity and tranquility. "Mikael, promise me that you are going to grow up to become a wise and happy man. Please take good care of your father as he is a fragile as you do. Love him more than you already have." Sarah could feel Mikael body shaking in her arms and she knew that Mikael was crying. "Please do not cry my son and be brave for me. I will miss you and your father dearly. I promise you both that I will keep on watching both of you from up here." "Mother I love you." Those were the only words Mikael could say to his mother before he wakes up in the empty room. He looked at the unoccupied bed and reality set in that his mother has passed away. He knelt on the floor and gestured with his hand of the holy cross on his body and silently prayed for his mother. -----------------------------------------*------------------------------------------- Hayden and Mikael are now in a realm of everlasting love. They found happiness and love from Cornelly and Nick. 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