You and Me

Chapter 25

We arrived at the hospital and I ran to the front desk as fast as I could. I just wanted to get to her, see, comfort her and tell her she's the most important person in my life right now.

"What's Charlotte Carter's room?" I said and the woman started typing. "Mr. Ivan Lombardo?" I heard a man say and I looked at him. He was tall and had dirty blond hair and hazel eyes. He was wearing a blue suit, I nodded. "Thank you Ms. but I got it from here" he said looking over at the receptionist. "I'm Charlotte's big brother" he said, extending his hand and I took it. "I didn't plan for us to meet this way but life happens." he sighed "yeah, I don't want to sound rude but I would really like to see Charlotte" I said to him and he let out a sad chuckle. "Yeah we all would" he said and I stopped in my tracks and I looked at him confused. "She's in surgery" he said and my heart stopped, could it have been so bad that she needed surgery. "W-what kind of surgery, W-why?" I said to him concerned, "in the car accident Charlotte had some impact to her chest and it was severe since she has a heart problem" he said and I was so shocked, I've never heard of this before she never told me. " it's nothing new if she didn't tell you she doesn't really tell people this because she thinks it makes her look 'weak' compared to everyone" he says and we both chuckle "yeah that sounds like her" I tell him and he nods.

We've been waiting for news for the past hour and a half but it feels like an eternity. In that time I met her brother, her parents, and her two best friends. We've all been waiting impatiently for news. "Charlotte Carter's Family?" a doctor comes out and says we all stand up quickly and he looks at each of us. "The surgery went okay, there were some ups and downs-" he said and I interrupted "downs?" I asked for further information. "Yes in surgery Charlotte's heart stopped...twice" he said and I felt like my world was breaking into pieces. Her heart stopped not once but twice! The heart that holds mine.

"Charlotte is being transferred into her room. I will have a nurse come get you guys to take you to her room. I recommend that you go in one by one or in pairs. Also it would help if you didn't agitate her or worry her" he said and we all just nodded. "Also what would you like to do with the person who crashed into her, would you like to press charges?" he said and before anyone could reply I talked first. "Who was the person who crashed into Charlotte?" I asked for some reason I felt the need to know. "The name of the patient is... Camilla Albeins" he said and I was shocked did she really crash into Charlotte because of jealousy, jealousy I haven't given her a reason to feel.

A nurse approached the doctor and the doctor nodded. "Charlotte is in her room and it seems like she's starting to wake up. Who will go in first?" he asked and I felt the need to see her and kiss her, "if you guys won't mind I would really like to see her first" I said and they all smiled and nodded. I started to follow the nurse up to Charlotte's room and I couldn't help but feel scared and anxious.

I walked in and she looked pale and weak, tears started to leave my eyes. I wiped them and started to walk towards her bed and pulled the stool over. "Hey my love" I whispered, reaching for her hand and kissed the top of it. She struggled to open her eyes from weakness. When her beautiful hazel eyes met mine, I could see a puddle of tears start to form and I couldn't hold my tears back. "Hey" she said groggy and a tear escaped on the side of her face. "Don't cry" I said and sniffled, "I know what happened with Camilla and I want you to know just how wrong she is. You are the most important woman in my life, I love you and my heart belongs to you" I said and cried as she sniffled. "Ivan... my world ends and begins with you... you're my whole life" she cried. I kissed her hand and she reached for her chest with the other and I could tell she was in pain. "You ok?" I asked her and she nodded "yeah it's just it hurts a little bit when I breath, but I'm fine" she said and started scooting over. "Wooah be careful don't hurt yourself" I said and she patted the space next to her and I laid down next to her.

For a couple of hours her family and best friends went to check on her. She wouldn't let me leave the room so I was there the whole time her brother asked her several times what had happened but she said that she couldn't really remember that everything was just a blur. She said she must've been distracted and didn't want to talk about it. I could tell her brother knew further information but I didn't want to push it by asking so many questions.

It's been about 5 days since the surgery and It was about 7:30pm and the nurse came in and told me that visiting hours were over, Charlotte asked her when she would be able to go home and the nurse said that if there were no complications during the night she would be able to leave tomorrow evening but would have to stay with somebody for a while because of her heart problem. "I'll come see you tomorrow ok?" I said to her, giving her a kiss "after or before work?" she asked, smiling. "I'm not going to work tomorrow, I'll be here all day with you... nothing's more important than you" I said and kissed her she hummed into the kiss and I smiled against her lips. We said goodbye and I left. I knew I wasn't going to get any sleep tonight. The doctor had said that there could be complications tonight, I knew I was going to be worried all night.

I'm just glad she's doing better by the minute but I really need to find out Camilla's plan. Was it to hurt Charlotte? Or was it to kill her?

Published 05/30/2022