Loveproof Heart

Chapter 21

(listen to the song for a bit of how Chris is feeling becuse i dont really want to change pov a lot in this story)

Chapter 21

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Darkness. Quiet. Unpeaceful rest. 

I was stuck in a dark abyss...impossible to drag myself out of. Snatches of reality made their way through...

Chris' voice, his touch.

My mum's voice, her soothing hand.

Mary's voice, her tears.

The doctor's voice, his misunderstood diagnosis.

Each time desperatly tryng to follow it, to let it lead me out of the darkeness and into the light. Each time it never worked.

Until eventually I almost gave up..that was until I heard Chris again.

"Hailey. Please. Wake up. Don't leave me. I just finally got you to give me a chance and those days before killed me. I can't live without you. You're my other half." A warm hand engulfed my considerably smaller one. "My mate."  He ran his free rough hand across my forehead and down my cheek. My face twitched.

The hand stopped on my chin. 

"Hailey?" Shock coursed through his voice, mingling with hope that he was trying to restrain. "Hailey, can you hear me?" I willed myself to gently squeeze his hand. 

"Wake up. Hailey, please just, wake up. For me, for everybody." Something cool and wet dropped down onto my face and ran down to the floor, followed by others.

I've been trying! But everytime I start to hope and believe I'm going to make it out of th darkness, it seems to drown me and pull me back harder than I can pull myself out. 

Desperatley I tried to open my eyes, to open my mouth and let my voice be heard. To wake up and live my life once more.

There, ahead of me was white spot of light. I raised my arms up and stretched, desperate to make my way out of the hell.

My eyes snapped open and I saw a tearful, shocked Chris sitting in the seat next to me. 

"Hailey!" He rejoiced, jumping out of the seat and engulfing me in a hug. I tried to open my mouth and talk but it came out in a dehydrated croak. 

Chris looked rough, his clothes rumpled and creased and he had let his facial hair grow. He had facial hair?

Well he did now...

"I have to go and tell your mum, she went to get some food." He whispered as more tears fell silently down his face and off his chin to the linoleum floor. 

I nodded and he quickly left the room leaving me alone.

As soon as he had left the room I could feel my eyelids getting heavier and every blink I took was effort to open them back up...

until I was once again in the dark abyss.

Alone. 

And this time, there was no light up ahead. Just more darkness.

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