I Will Love You for an Eternity

Nick Parker was a middle school teacher, who loved his students, his colleagues, and coworkers, and they loved him back. He was a good-natural person, kind, friendly and very easy going and a sort of a person. It was obvious, he loved what he did for a living, and his awards spoke by itself for the matter. Four years ago, he was been nominated teacher of the year in his school district. His mother and he survived his father whom had died of cancer, and unfortunately, for Nick, on that same day of his demise, he was diagnostic with the same deadly illness. He was single and had had a dalliance once, but she had disappeared in thin air when she learnt he had been diagnostic with his father’s decease. With myriad of thoughts, ricocheting as tennis ball in his mind, he walked slowly, almost dragging his legs, as though each leg weighted a ton, downhearted, dispirited, out of his doctor’s office. Even though he was in his prime age, he was soon to die in thirty days, top, according to his tests results. His cancer that was quiescence for a year had awoken, deadlier this time and had already sprinkled all over his organs, like rain over a field. His days were numbers, his life over and so, it was his hopes. His father had died three years ago. It was the same day of his demise when the doctor diagnosed him with cancer, and he went through the rigorous treatment, radiation and chemotherapy, which by then, it seemed to succeed. The doctor had told him he was cancer free, a cancer survivor, but he was far off from his mark, it had come back and lethal than before, even though the doctor told him to go once again through treatment. However, he did not guaranteed that it would work this time. The fact was, it was too late, which he did not wanted to go through treatment anyway, however, his mother never lost faith and wanted him to go through it again, but he was adamant about the fact. It was a recurring topic for him, saying always that going under treatment was as going to hell and come back if you are lucky and strong enough to resist it. To him life was over. However, on the vagaries of life, his was to take forty-five degrees turn when he tried to remember where he had parked his car. His eyes swept the parking lot, trying to visual it, but he did not see it. Then, after a few minutes, he saw it, and when he walked purposely toward the car, believing was his but it was not. It just looked, like his, same color, same year, same model, and the same brand, but it was not. Next to it, he heard a young woman crying. Therefore, in a flash, his cavalier attitude toward the distress of others came to surface, and when he saw her, she looked very distressful and within minutes, like magic, a moment later, after her anguish had assuaged. He was smitten badly with her charms, which he thought was her green eyes, and her long hair, and her sweet smile. In matter-of-factly, everything about her, he loved it, in matter of no time at all, he felt besotted with her, but also, later on. He found himself entangled into an enormous web of arguments with his mother, who was not only a moral person but also pragmatic, when she persuasively, asked him to tell the truth to her about his terminal decease. Given her young age and charms, which it was a right thing to do, but he refuses to do so, terrified that if she knew he was a cancer patient, she would walk away as Nancy did when she learnt about his deadly aberration. Nick and Daniela’s mutual attraction, within hours, soon grow immensely, like tulips in the advent of spring, and in days they got marry in secret, but now, his dilemma was as gigantic as a mountain. Equally was his guiltiness, he wrestled daily with himself about whether to tell her the truth or not. Suddenly, finding himself with a huge, immense desire to live, and eventually, to a prelude to a new life with his wife, Daniela, therefore, he concurred with her mother to go through treatment but without Daniela’s knowledge. He would