Second Chance

Prologue

Prologue

 35 years ago, Green Lake Hospital

“Mrs Silas, you neighbour Mrs Vista had her baby girl about 30 minutes ago” the nurse said as she walked into a hospital room to check on her and her son whom she gave birth to just yesterday. Her neighbour and good friend went into a labour today.

“Is everything ok?” she asked as she hoped that it was

“Oh yes, mom and the baby are really good, dad is ecstatic just like your husband was yesterday and everything went without a problem”

“Did they give her a name yet?”

“Yes they did, just like you said they would” the nurse smiled at her as she was leaving.

31 years ago - Daycare

“Mrs Silas, Mrs Vista, I can’t stress enough how sorry I am that this has happened, it’s just that we never thought it would come to something like this because your son Mrs Silas is such a well behaved boy and it is obvious that they adore each other” the teacher looked at both of them now

“The other boy was playing with your daughter Mrs Vista, and he must have wanted to give her a hug or a kiss, they are only four and it would have been an innocent act. It seemed as your son would not have it, Mrs Silas. He is so protective of Mrs Vista daughter, they always play so well and get along, so unfortunately he hit the other boy and then bit him. We would just like to let you know of this incident and ask if you could explain to your son about hitting and biting. We already did have a talk about it, but he seemed upset with the other boy and we are not sure if he understood it”

The two heavily pregnant women looked at the teacher and then looked at each other and smiled an amused smile shaking their heads. Their kids are becoming really interesting.

 

30 years ago – the Vista home

“Mama, I want to go see Abriel” her five year old daughter was standing in front of her, cute little pout on her face and a demand. She was so strong willed, stubborn and demanding all the time, determined and focused, she would not let anyone distract her from what she wanted and if she wanted to go see her friend, her mom knew if she did not take her at some point she would have a temper tantrum to deal with and she would scream the house down and wake up her one year old brother from his nap. So she tried to prolong it a little and asked “Why?”

“So he can see my bike and we can ride”

“Do we have to go now? Nick is sleeping. Can we wait until he wakes up?”

“But when is he going to wake up?” she asked looking at her with those brown-gold flecked eyes, her blonde locks bouncing around her round shaped face. She looked at the clock and realized that her son was sleeping for about two hours now and he should be up soon.

“Soon sweetie, and then we can feed him, get you a snack and go visit your friend” she said to her. Not even five minutes later, she heard her son’s cheery voice like he was cooing at someone and walked into his room. Her daughter was on the floor next to his crib and she laughed. Impatient little bugger that she was she went to wake him up.

“Now can we go see Abriel?”

22 years ago – Grade school, History

School desks were designed for two students to sit together. Every classroom and every school in Green Lake had the same school tables for their students. Classrooms usually had three rows of 5-6 tables to accommodate about 30 students.  Sometimes more often than not, it was not such a good idea to have two students sit together.