Karma: Twice Happy Chapter 02

Gyll was often giving Karma compliments and saying he admired her. They had been married for over 4 months and so far everything was going so smoothly. She realized that she half expected for something wrong to happen eventually. Everything was going so good in her life. Even had work she had just had a promotion to being a High School Teacher. She was now able to afford her plastic surgery. They had her name on a list and she was waiting for the call.

 

The surgeons were able to build her a nose, rearrange her jaws, and fill her lips. The result was remarkable! She had never imagined that she would look normal and human one day. Yet she was, well, almost. They didn’t think they could do anything for her eyes and ears, until a different surgeon said that he could, so she had to wait for that call to see what he could do for her.

It had taken over a month to completely heal, but the result was worth every pain and discomfort she went through.

She often found herself looking at herself in the mirror. Making faces and having fun with her new face.

Gyll adored her new look and new self confidence in her physical appearance. She now accepted his compliments more. She had helped him so much with his public shyness that he was happy that she was getting the help she had always wanted.

When Gyll wasn’t working at the restaurant or spending time with Karma, he liked to play the bass. His passion was Jazz.

Her friend Marylena was shocked at Karma’s new face. She joked that maybe she should have surgery as well. But Marylena was already pretty, she just felt her nose was a bit too wide. Everyone has complains on something about themselves, no matter how pretty they are.

They had been trying to get pregnant for a few months and finally Karma got pregnant. She was starting to think maybe she couldn’t conceive. Gyll had been talking about having children for a while. He had even picked out the names when they first decided to start a family. He wanted Lacey if it was a girl and Lyric for a boy.

Melissa was a friend of Marylena and she also worked with Gyll, so she’d often drop by. But she would spend most of her time playing with Gyll’s bass. Gyll cooked a delicious pork chop dinner and she didn’t even join them at the table.

Karma was getting closer to her due date and she was getting a bit anxious. She started worrying about the baby’s health and if it would be born with deformities. She had a call from the surgeon, but she had to put her surgery to a later date now that she was pregnant.

Gyll also liked to paint and he loved painting portraits of his wife. She confided her worries to him about the baby being born deformed, but he told her it was unlikely that the baby would have any, and even if he/she did, he had confidence in Karma that she would teach their child how to deal with it. And now surgeons could even help.

Marylena, being the pessimist, had tried to convince Karma to have an ultra sound to see if the baby looked alright, but Karma had always refused. Her argument was that even if she knew in advanced, what would it change? She certainly planned on giving her child the love and time that she had lacked growing up, no matter what.

Finally the big day arrived when Karma went into labour. To her surprise, she delivered twins! Both were girls. The first baby came out and Karma laughing pointing out that she had a nose, at first she hadn’t noticed that the baby had huge eyes. When the second girl was born her heart sank when she realized that she had a deformed nose. She just felt bad for her baby that she would probably suffer in the hands of cruel children’s comments.

Gyll named the lighter skinned baby Lacey, and Karma named the other girl Sapphire.