E K A K S H

We stop in front of the gates of a small orphanage where Lia has instructed the driver to bring us. Helping Lia out of the car, I look at her beautiful face as she smiles bright at me. She softly  squeezes my palm in reassurance. 

When I asked her what gift she wanted and she told me she wanted to adopt a baby, I was taken aback. Honestly, I didn’t even know how to process everything for some time. She might have just made the demand out of the blue but for me, it’s a feeling that cannot be described in words. 

Maybe she knows it. Maybe that’s why she asked for it. Or maybe she just wanted it.

I don’t know what’s true but since the moment she has presented that demand to me, my heart rate has not been normal. I have not been able to sleep for two days. I have not been able to focus on work for two days. The only thing that has taken up the space in my mind is the thought that Lia and I are soon going to adopt a baby.

Our baby.