Secrets in her eyes

Chapter 2

As I awake I'm greeted by the sunshine spilling into the room from the slit of the curtain. I didn't even realise I had fallen asleep and I look around to find the room empty, convincing me last night was simply just a dream. That is until Amaris walks in holding two cups in her hand and a paper bag.
"Good morning, I thought you might be hungry so I bought you a croissant and hot chocolate because I wasn't sure what you might like" I try to sit up but find a sharp pain in my side. Amaris comes over and helps me up. "You should be careful you'll open your stitches if your not careful" stitches? Why would I need stitches? I stop thinking about it to keep myself going crazy. After helping me sit upright Amaris brings me the croissant and I thank her for the breakfast. She sits at my feet on the bed with her drink in hand staring at me as if she was studying me. I notice she hasn't got any food so I question her "are you not going to eat too?"
"I'm not hungry and I'm ok with my coffee" she smiles. As I sit there with my breakfast one thing keeps playing in my mind. "Were you the one singing?" She looks up startled.
"You heard that?" She says in the quietest voice. I nod. "Your amazing. You should sing at the music competition" she turns away with a snicker. "They'd laugh at me. I'm not the kinda girl people like to see up on a stage"
I stay silent. No matter how much I'd love to see her upon that stage she's right. "Would you like anything to do?" Amaris asks
"What do you mean?"
"I can go and grab you a magazine if you want. I have a book in my bag if your into that kinda stuff" I laugh. In my seventeen years I have not once read a book. I make her aware of this fact.
"Your really missing out dude. Books are amazing" Noting her love for books I enquire about her favourite one. Her face lights up like a little light bulb. She excitedly tells me her favourite book and tells me everything about it making me feel as if I'm reading it myself. The amount of depth she goes into astounds me. She tells me her favourite quotes and why she loves them.
"Would you like to read it? I have it in my bag?"
I chuckle "We'd be here all day. You'd be better off reading to me" after a moment she replies back "what if I did read it to you?" And I'm smiling. She grabs the book and gently reads every word to me. Each word filled with passion and love. She portrays each character with love, changing her voice and tone with each and everyone of them. Hours pass with her filling my mind with a new world and exploring this world in ways I didn't think were possible. As night falls upon us her voice becomes hushed. I'm sure she's doing it to make me sleep because slowly as the sentences go by my eyes begin to droop sending me into sweet abyss.

I'm convinced I'm dying.
My lungs won't expand. My head ponding with pain and my body aching with hot and cold chills wrapping me all over. The feeling of fear and dread and every bad feeling mixed into one      I try to scream but I can't. My body won't let me. I feel someone grab my shoulders shaking me and I open my eyes. Amaris is stood over me screaming for me to wake up.
That it's just a nightmare.
That it isn't real.
She tells me to breath and I follow her breathing slowly calming myself down. My body is still shaking recovering from the trauma. I try my best but the tears behind my eyes battle to be let free. It's a battle I lose. They fall escaping my eyes and I can't stop them. No matter how hard I try. "Oh sweet it's ok let it all out" Amaris whispers whilst pulling me into a hug. She smells like freshly picked flowers and her hug feels like the warmth from the sunshine enveloping me. She gently rocks me soothing me with her words. When I finally calm down she let's go of me and the words escape my mouth without warning "don't leave me" she looks back at me with eyes so full of emotion. "I'm not going anywhere" she responds. But even so she understands. I love to the side and she lays down beside me gently placing her arms around me. I close my eyes and shudder. An after spell of my ordeal. "Is this ok?" She questions.
"Sing for me" I ask. After a pause of silence she gently begins singing a song I cannot recognise. 
Soaking up the sun wrapped around me and smelling the scent of flowers I slowly fall asleep.