❝ –– perhaps it’s true that things can change in a day. and when they do, those few dozen hours, like the salvaged remains of a burned house—the charred clock, the singed photograph, the scorched furniture—must be resurrected from the ruins and examined. and suddenly, they become the bleached bones of a story.
Honestly, she couldn’t have imagined how Teddy felt if she tried, and all Amelia could do was offer her the comfort in knowing her daughter would be okay. Sure, they had known each other awhile now, and one might objectively be able to call them friends, but the two hadn’t been very close, and maybe that was best in moments like these. It was impossible to stay level-headed in treating a friend’s child. So she didn’t waste her time trying to offer meaningless words of sympathy, instead finding a place to seat herself and ask her questions.
“I brought Pierce in to monitor her heart during the surgery and everything went just fine – no complications – but I just need to know whatever you can tell me about it, so I can make sure there are no secondary problems that come up. There’s not much in her file about it, just that it happened when she was a baby. Anything you can tell me about her treatment at the time – whether there’s anything else we should be looking out for.” It was a vague question, sure, but she figured that would be alright, dealing with another doctor and all.
She’d known this was coming for a long time now. But all of
those nightly ventures into the recesses of her mind had still been in vain — to this day, Teddy couldn’t even
begin to fathom what she could possibly say to the woman who had lost her child
to save hers. It sounded brusque, but it was the truth — if it weren’t for
Amelia’s son, Teddy wouldn’t be a mother today.
And just thinking of her, thinking of Delia, it made
Teddy pity Amelia for all the moments she had lost. Her son’s first words, the
way her child’s eyes sang with innocent light in the summer — Amelia had given
Teddy a gift beyond words, and there was no repaying that. If Amelia knew just
how long she’d been holding on to this secret, she would never forgive her.
But there was nothing else for it. The moment had
come, and Teddy couldn’t stall any longer.
“Delia… she had a heart transplant the week she was
born. She had a hole in her heart, and it would have failed if it weren’t
for that transplant. I’d have lost her right then and there…”
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