Chapter 1 Defeated

• 'When life gives you a Lemon, make Lemonade.'
• Somewhere around a mountain:
• A little girl of about 10 years old was seen crying as she quickly dialed a number from her phone. On the third ring it was picked.
• "Hello mummy." Lola said in tears.
• "Yes, what is it? Why are you crying? You and Nora aren't back from the walk you both took one hour ago." Mrs Mary, the twins mother said worriedly as she put the phone on a loudspeaker so that her husband would also hear their conversation.
• "Mummy Nora fell off the mountain." Lola answered sobbing badly.
• "What!? Oh my Gosh, how did this happen?" This time around it was James, their father who asked.
• "We were both playing around the mountain when Nora's feet suddenly slipped and she fell off the mountain. Please come quickly and help her mum. We are at the mountain close to our house, hurry up please." Lola answered, still crying.
• Soon an ambulance and helicopter came down to the mountain, the helicopter went down to the bottom of the mountain and flew out with a bloody Nora.
• They quickly put her body in the ambulance which zoomed off.
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• The Next Day:
• News reporters were seen littering around the hospital and were being blocked from coming inside the hospital by the police.
• When they saw the white limousine that drove the Dantes, they rushed to meet them, but their bodyguards and police prevented them from getting closer. A reporter successfully maneuvered the guards and police and reached the couples heading worriedly inside the hospital, holding up his phone to them as he put it on record.
• "Sir, sir one moment please, is it true that the young star actress and singer who has appeared in numerous movies met with an accident today?"
• James stopped briefly to answer the young man.
• "Yes, one of my precious daughters met with an accident today, I don't know her condition yet."
• "Will she be okay?" The man asked, still persisting.
• "I don't know, I can't answer that question now." With that, James quickly left him and entered the hospital with his wife.
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• The doctor in charge requested for them immediately in his office.
• "What were they doing on that mountain all by themselves? Didn't someone go with them? Assuming someone went with them this wouldn't have happened, so why were they alone?" Doctor Maliki asked Mr and Mrs Dantes.
• "We didn't know they went to play on that mountain, we thought they were at the back of the house, please is Nora okay?" James asked in a worried tone as his wife, Mary, sat beside him and cried out her eyes.
• "She is okay, though she is now awake, it still baffles me that Nora would survive such a great fall," Doctor Maliki said with a smile, Mary and James breathed the breath they didn't even notice they were holding, and smiled at the doctor.
• "But I am sorry to say this, the fall didn't kill her and for that we are thankful to God, but some of her body won't be the same again." Maliki added, the smile on the faces of the Dantes vanished as it had quickly come.
• "What do you mean doctor, won't she be able to walk again?" Mary asked her deepest fear.
• "I wish that was the case ma'am, but it is not, it is more than that." Doctor Maliki answered.
• "Then what is it?" James demanded.
• "She has lost her sight." Maliki finally told them.
• "I don't get you doctor, please elaborate."
• "Your daughter Nora is blind, and no, there is no operation that can fix that. My guess was she belabor her head against the rocks many times when she falls down the mountain."
• "This can not be happening, how can Nora be blind? Is there nothing we can do, doctor? We don't mind the amount, we will pay you." Mary said, crying.
• "I am sorry but there is absolutely nothing that can be done in her condition now, and also, the impact of her hitting her head on the bottom of the mountain so hard, made her larynx, which is her voice box, got damaged as well, she can't talk again. Like I said, I am still in shock that she survived that fall, her bones weren't broken, it is still a miracle. This is the time she will need you both most, and with your support and love for her, she will pass through this deep waters."
• "Okay doctor, thank you so much for your help. So can we see her?"
• "Sure, follow me." The doctor said and took them to the ward where Nora was, in there, she was greatly bandaged, her throat that was slash before had been stitched.