The Forced Arrangement [Harry Styles]

19: Give Me Love

Chapter 19:

Ashley POV:

I heard a heart monitor beeping, the smell of antiseptic detergents was surrounding the room and I just wanted to chop my nose off. I heard a cough and some movements, I tried to open my eyes but my eyelids felt heavy.

A door opened and someone walked in.

"How's she doin'?" a familiar voice asked. 

"I don't know," another familiar voice replied, sounding tired.

The first voice sighed and stayed silent. "Harry, I'm sure she's okay, the doctors said so."

"She's been in a coma for three days already!" Harry replied angrily. "Fuck what the doctors say! I should have been hit too or at least protected her and not move away and forgetting her there!"

Coma!? I'm in a coma?

Tears welled up in my eyes and trailed down my cheek. "She's crying?"

"What?" Harry asked, I felt him shift and I felt two pair of eyes on me. Soft fingers brushed against my cheeks, wiping away the fallen tears. "What if she never wakes up?"

I wanted to open my mouth and scream and tell him I'm awake but I couldn't. I was too weak to do so. I had to give him a sign that I was listening, that I was sort of awake and alive. 

Harry POV:

I saw her fingers twitch and I looked at Niall hopefully, he was smiling. Her head moved softly to one side and her eyebrows furrowed together as though thinking of something. She groaned and her eyebrows relaxed slightly but furrowed again.

"You reckon she heard us?" Niall asked and I shrugged.

"Think so."

I sighed nervously and studied her face. Her eyes were shaking and that's when I noticed that she was trying to open her eyes.

"Niall," I whispered and he looked at me. "Get the doctor."

"What's wrong?"

"She's trying to wake up. Go!"

His eyes widened and he quickly left the room and came back soon after with the doctor that was assigned to her. He walked towards Ashley and checked her pulse.

"Her heart rate is very quick, the heart monitor is increasing, actually," Dr Victor said, furrowing his brows in thought. "At the moment, she's awake but she cannot talk or open her eyes, she can hear us right now too. Now she can either fully wake up or continue with the coma, that is unknown."

My face fell and I sighed, I prayed that she would wake up. I need her. 

Dr Victor walked out of the room once again but when he did Niall hit my shoulder and I winced and gave him a death glare but he wasn't looking at me, but at Ashley. I whipped my head at Ashley and noticed her eyes opened. "Ashley?"

Her lip trembled and tears fell down from her eyes and trailed down her cheeks but I quickly wiped them away. Her eyes turned to look at me, then looked at Niall, then back at me. She looked confused and scared. "Babe, what's wrong?"

She shook her head and looked away. I put a finger beneath her chin and turned her face to look at me, her brown eyes looked lost. I furrowed my eyebrows and looked at Niall. "Call Dr Victor."

He looked at Ashley and smiled sadly then nodded and left the room. I looked at Ashley, she was studying my face. 

"Ash?" I timidly asked.