Secluded Affair

chapter 15

Jons POV

"Mr Bongiovi, why don't you get a coffee and stretch your legs. You're not doing yourself any favours, sweetheart. You look like you could use some air," said the nurse 

"Please call me Jon. I don't want to leave her; I want no need to be here if she wakes up."

"Jon, I'm Lizzie. I'll be honest with you it's not like it's going to be the next few hours she's going to wake up; with head trauma, the body and brain need time to heal. The swelling on her brain needs time to reduce, and it's not going to be quick, that's for sure. Go to the nurse's station and ask for a beeper; if something happens, I will beep you to come back. Ok? Now go on with yourself," Lizzie said, patting my back.

I lean over and tell Cori I will be back soon; I kiss her cheek and watch her as I walk out of the room. I pick up a beeper from the nurse's station and get directions to the cafeteria. I walk down the halls, twist and turns down some stairs. I finally found the restaurant. I grab a coffee and a sandwich, pay and then head outside. Finally, feeling free from the four walls and able to breathe, the confines of the small room, the muted mint green walls everywhere you look, feel like they're closing in. I need to get out for a while; I finish my coffee, heading over to a cab sitting there.

I hop into the backseat, give him my address, and set off. I look back at the hospital, watching it get smaller and smaller the further we drive away. I feel a deep ache in my chest like I have left my heart there. I am fighting the feeling to turn the cab around and going back to her, but I need to freshen up and get some clean clothes. The taxi pulls up kerbside to the villa; I hand him some cash and hop out. I stand and look at the place that holds so many happy memories of this last week; I take a deep breath and walk up to the door, insert the key and open it up. There is a mess where the police have been. I walk through the house to the bedrooms; I stop at the door, scared to see what has been left behind, apprehension gripping my guts.

I open the door to the bedroom, and the floor is covered in shit from the paramedics and the police. I look up to the bed, and there is blood everywhere. I start to pick up all the shit from the floor and take the bedding off the bed, ready to go in the bin. The emotions build up inside me the longer I stay in this room; I can't bear it anymore. I grab what I need from the room and leave. I close the door and walk back into the kitchen. I hold my car keys and walk out of the house towards the garage and get the car.

The further from the house I drive, the better I start to feel, the anger dissipating somewhat. But, as I get closer to the hospital, I have this gnawing feeling in my stomach. I can't put my finger on it. Something doesn't feel right; I need to get to the hospital quicker.

I get out of the car and walk towards the entrance to the hospital; as I'm walking, two white butterflies dance their way in Infront of me. Taking me back to the memory of being in the garden with Cori, just lounging around enjoying the day, white butterflies were fluttering around the bushes. Cori said that when you see white butterflies, a loved one has come to visit. I shake my head and smile at the memory, but something still has my gut gripped tight. As I walk through the hospital, my beeper starts going off. I run through the halls and up the stairs to the ward Cori is on; I make it to the nurse's station, and Lizzie is there. She takes me by the arm and leads me into the room next to it.

"Jon, Cori took a turn for the worst; we have had to put her on a breathing machine. A few moments ago, her heart stopped beating; now we have managed to get her heart beating again, but she has been classed as unstable; we don't know if it will happen again."

"She, she died, how?"

"Why? We don't know, maybe the pressure from the swelling caused too much work for her heart, and I just stopped. We don't know, but she does have more machines around her. We don't think there would be any lasting damage as we were on it quick. So don't be too alarmed when you go back into the room, sweetheart."