My (Almost) Perfect Life

Chapter 7

My jaw drooped open. "Meoww" the creature inside the basket purred. It was beautiful. The ash colored chunks with white accents filled its silky body. Its bright green eyes shimmerd in the sunlight. "OH MY GOSH CAM!" I just about melted like butter. I was speechless. Back when we were dating I told him how much I wanted a kitty. "Cameron I...I can't even describe how much.." I couldn't even speak. "Do you like him?" he said with a smile. "I LOVE HIM!OOO WHAT SHOULD I NAME HIM?!?!" I said very exitedly. He started laughing at me and I gave him a playful punch. Which actually hurt me instead. My parents came up behind me unexpectedly. "What's going on out here?" my mom said. "Cameron got me a kittten!" I said happily. Cameron reached out the basket for my parents to see. I could see my mom really liked it. She had a cat too when she was highschol. She died when I was 7. Coincidentally  her boyfriend gave it to her as well, even though I wasn't dating him I still felt this 'connection' that I couldn't describe. "He's beautiful Cameron!!" she said exitedly. "Thank you Mrs.Johnson." he said with great pleasure. "He's adorable." my dad said,which was heavily unexpected, cats weren't his favorite but he knew how much I wanted one. "Come in." I said moving out of his way. "Mom,dad we're going to go upstairs." I said already half way up the stairs. When we reached my room he shut the door behind him and handed me the kitten. "Aren't you a cutie?Yes, yes you are!" I said playfully to the kitty. I thought about what to name him. "So what are you going to name him?" Cameron asked smiling and looking down at the cat. "Ashton." I said with a huge smile. "Why?" he said, and I knew that he liked it. "I don't know,I've always liked that name, and he's got some gray on him." I said stroking him. "I love it!"

*next day*

It was 8:30 when I woke up to my mom getting clothes out of my closest. I fluttered my eyes in confusion. "Mom,what are doing?" I said sitting up. "Pumpkin the doctors said that visitors are allowed to come from 9-10. I have a pair of sweat pants and a t-shirt." she said putting the outfit on my chair. "Okay I'll get ready now" I said climbing out of bed. "Great, I have breakfast downstairs when your ready." I got up put on the outfit she picked out,brushed my hair and teeth and walked downstairs. I didn't even worry about putting on makeup. When we got to the hospital I suddenly felt a huge weight on my shoulders. I've only known him for 3 days, but there's just something about him, and he almost died trying to save ME. We walked into his recovering room and saw him laying down in the bed and what looked to be his parents were crouched down next to him. He looked absolutely terrible. I couldn't imagine how much pain he must be in. He was beat up it was hard to look at him. His parents turned around and gave me this face I couldn't describe. I froze.