𝑰𝒏𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝑳𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓 | 18+ COMPLETED

Reina

I feel numb. I can't move but I feel soreness in my stomach, a tight ache as I soon start to remember what happened. I was shot in the stomach. I have no idea how many days it's been, my eyes betray me from opening them, but my ears let me hear every single thing around me.

I want to scream to make someone help me open my eyes, I feel trapped in my own body. The voices of distress and worry are all I can hear but nothing more. All I know is it's been less than a month and this is the second time something's happened ever since they came back. Where are they? How do they know where we are? How did they know I was holding a car event?

Someone that night could've gotten shot other than me because they were putting everyone in danger. Including Santiago.

Speaking of him, there's been a mix of feelings after saving me. When I got shot, I knew he stayed with me the whole time after I collapsed into his arms. I saw it with my own eyes on the stage, and I heard it from Isabel. That night he pressed over my wound, made me smile and laugh and pretended to threaten me but it didn't work, moreover, I felt some sort of amiable touch amongst him.

He wants the world to know that I'm becoming his wife, why? I have no idea why. But the way he announced it that evening made me realise we could have something more than hatred. Maybe he's hiding something, maybe when I got shot he got reminded of something similar that's happened in his life.

I could hear muffled voices in the room where I lay still, lifeless, trying to recognise the voices of those here. "It's been a week, doctor. When is she going to wake up? You've said her vitals are good, so why isn't she waking up?"

Was that Santiago speaking? It sounded like him. I recognise the disembodied voice; a monotonous yet huskily tone could only belong to one person and one person only.

"I know I've said her vitals are good and everything seems to be healthy but it's just a matter of her body responding to waking up. It's been a week since her body has been resting from the surgery and the wound so she should wake up soon."

"If anything happens to her doc, I swear to god—"

"Thiago—hermano, she will wake up. I believe in her," Matias reassures him and it fucking hurts me not being able to wake up and tell them I'm okay. I wanted to tell them that I can hear everything but it's my own eyes that are defeating me. "Uh thank you, doctor, we've just got to wait for her to wake up," I promise you Matias, I'm trying.

How has it been a week? Did they catch the shooter? Have they sent any more threats again? My mind is cluttered with all these thoughts, I don't want to get any negativity in my head because I know it won't be good for me. Especially if I think back to the past.

Now all I have to do is try and wake up. I need to wake up. Everything in me feels so defeated, weak and it's like my body can't function though I'm alive. But I've got to push through this and wake up. I've got to so that I don't put anyone in stress or sadness.

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I don't think the universe is with me. It's been an hour and I've been trying to open my eyes, but they don't want to. It was getting tiring of staying like this, I was devasted by the way my body was rejecting me to waking up.

I felt a pair of comforting, recognisable hands gulf mine. Maybe it's Santiago's? No, it can't be, he would never. It's probably one of my brothers. "Come on Reina, please wake up. We're not surviving without you." Thiago was tired just as I was, I mean I don't blame him and I'm sure he hasn't gone home to freshen up.

I can feel my pupil move within my closed eyelids, I end up squeezing Thiago's hand which makes him almost yell my name out. "S-She's waking up!" I can imagine Thiago jumping up in excitement, I suddenly hear feet shuffling hurriedly towards the hospital bed. "Come on Reina, you can open your eyes."