Love's A Real Thing Right?

Chapter 14: Some promises have to be broken

"Now you could go up to the ICU waiting room, or you could wait down here, either place you still need to wait two hours for any form of feedback on what's going on with your friend. Now I'd recommend staying down here, there's a cafeteria and well there's people here."

Sylvia wiped away her tears, "Thanks for your help, and I understand what you mean, but I'll go up to the ICU waiting room, I want to be close to him even if the closest I can get is two rooms away, I just need too be near him."

"Ok ma'am, we understand, we'll head back to the station now." Before he walked away he handed her his card, "If you need help with anything just give me a call ok, since you're an eye witness in this case and your ex is a homicidal maniac."

Sylvia chuckled as she placed his card in her back pocket, "Thanks officer, you've been a huge help, bye." After they left she quickly made her way up to the ICU operating room's waiting room and sat down to experience the longest two hours of her life. To her it felt like that long car ride to the beach as a child, where you keep asking your parents if you're there yet every other minute but in this case she just kept glancing at the hands on the clock above her that didn't seem to move at all. To her, the time in the waiting room felt as though it had stopped, as though she was in a space outside of time. She thought to herself, 'Time is relative isn't it, and since I'm experience it too the very second it feels like it is taking longer than usually, I mean when I usually think of time I think of it in minutes, but now I'm looking at every second, and there are a lot of seconds. Did it always take so long for sixty seconds to pass?' As she sat there overthinking time itself, she felt as though an eternity had passed, that was until an alarm sounded in the ICU operating room, within a span of mere minutes she saw over twenty doctors rush into the operating room where Ace was. She became uneasy and started pacing up and down the waiting room while fidgeting with her with her fingers, she was really stressed. 'Was he ok, what happened that so many doctors needed to rush in, he's gonna be ok right, she didn't get to tell him she loved him, he can't die, he can't they were angry with each other before he left and went out, he can't die thinking I'm angry with him and hate him.' a million thoughts rushed through Sylvia's mind as she waited one the operation to be over.

After almost an hour later the doctors slowly began leaving the operating theater but they had a grim look on their faces, she thought the worse had occurred and Ace was dead. She immediately broke down in tears and broke the ear numbing silence that lay in the waiting room.

The chief medical officer saw her in this peculiar state and made his way over to her, he placed his hand on her shoulder in a comforting manner, "What seems to be problem dear? Why are you crying?"

With a strained voice Sylvia replied, "My, my friend." She wiped her tears a little and took a breath, "He was in there," she pointed to the operating theater, "And he's dead now, he wasn't supposed to die, he can't die yet."

The chief medical officer was a tad bit confused, "Your friend is dead?"

"Yes."

"And he was in there?" He was pointing to the operating theater.

"Yes. Why?"

"Well dear, firstly is your friend a young man?"

"Yes, his name is Ace. Why?"

"Well I don't know the young man's name, but I just came out of that operating theater, and if you're sure he was in their, he's alive, unconscious but alive."

Her eyes light up, "He's alive?"

"Yes, yes he is, we have stabilized his condition for now, and we're still doing some tests and investigations, but yes, he's alive."