When Lily meets Max again at his sisters wedding, she still feels the crush she had on him when she was fifteen. However, even when things seem to be looking up for Lily when Max reciprocates his feelings for her, his ex fiance Sarah does not like t...
My body protests in pain as the fog clears in my head and I didn't know I could feel such discomfort like this. My mind tries to come up with a logical reason why I feel this way but I draw a blank. Unable to move or ask for help, I lie still willing for the pain to pass when I hear a soft, alluring voice nearby.
"Shouldn't he have come round by now?"
"When he's ready he'll wake up dear," a gentle voice replies.
"I hope so," the angel sighs. "Even though he's been unconscious for two days now, this part of the waiting seems longer somehow."
Two days? I've been asleep for two days?
I try to push past the cloud in my mind to work out why I've been unconscious for this amount of time but the answer seems just out of reach.
"I can see what you mean. I haven't been this anxious about seeing Max open his eyes since I gave birth to him."
Mom? She's here. The knowledge of this eases my immediate worries as I know she will make sure that I am kept safe when I am unable to care for myself.
"I don't think I'll be able to relax until he's out of here. I thought I was going to lose him Beth. He was telling me goodbye and that he loved me and I was so scared. What if he didn't hear me tell him that I love him?"
Lily!
A memory of a frightened and tearful Lily hovering over me fights its way to the surface which is immediately followed with a searing pain through my head as I recall everything that happened that fateful night. Sarah framed and killed for Callie's crimes, Blake and Johnson murdered in cold blood, Callie trying to end my life with a bullet to the stomach, Lily upstairs and at Callie's mercy. Seeing Callie threaten Lily's life was something I couldn't bare to happen and using the last of my strength I somehow managed to overpower Callie and put a stop to her before she could cause any more harm. My body was so weak and cold at the end that I new I was dying; and even though I didn't want to go I felt at peace knowing that Lily was safe and would be okay.
"Shh. He's okay, Lily. He knows you love him. Please don't beat yourself up over this."
I wish I could reach out for her and tell her not to worry but the pain in my body is so overwhelming that I can't even move my arms without them feeling as if they are on fire. A dull pain starts to throb in my head and the voices become faint. I try to fight, to stay here in the present but my body is still too weak and I slip under.
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The fog clears again and this time I notice that the pain in my body has subsided a little, which I'm grateful for. I don't know how much time has passed, but I must have been out for a while as the voice in the room I can hear belongs to my dad. From the way he's talking, it sounds as if he is alone and I try to make a noise with my throat or move a finger to let him know that I'm awake, but once again I'm rendered frozen. It frustrates me that I'm unable to make my body work properly and I hope that this is just a side-effect that will wear off. Seeing as I won't be moving for a short time at least, I decide to listen to my dad as he talks to me. He spends most of his time talking about nonsensical things, yet it's comforting listening to his warm voice.
