The Trials of Loving Her

Sera Chapter 13

Sera never did sleep that day. She spent the hours in bed contemplating whether it was Jace she really saw. She was out that night to celebrate one of her friends’ thirty-seventh birthday. As the morning drew near, she and all her friends decided it was time to go on home. She then heard the sound of a loud bike as she stepped out. Immediately it made her think of him. No matter where she went, whenever she would see a motorcycle, it was his face she saw. She would get this sick feeling every time she didn’t see him there. When she saw his face for just a split second, she felt sober instantly. She wanted to scream his name so he might hear her through the noise. 

   “It can’t be him,” she thought, “Jace is gone.”

 When she returned home she couldn’t put herself to sleep. The thought of him still rested on her mind. “I need to know,” she thought. She looked to the side of her to see her husband sound asleep while her mind still wandered on the possibility of Jace’s recovery. She waited a couple hours until sunrise. She got herself dressed in her casual clothes and proceeded to drive to Charlesville Hospital. She spoke to the front desk when she got there and she asked for his information but found out it was undisclosed. She then asked for the doctor who was in charge of taking care of him. That too was undisclosed. She then went back home. She collected and showed them a marriage certificate that showed proof of their marriage. She never did change her name to her husband’s. She kept Jace’s last name instead as a gesture of the love she once had. She didn’t bother mentioning she had annulled her marriage to him and found another who loved her and treated her well. The nurses took pity on her as she told them all about the accident that took him away from her. After many minutes of talking and crying, they gave her the information she needed. When they told her he had been taken home by his sister, she was grateful to them. She left the hospital smiling and crying all at the same time. She rushed over to where Lucy and her mother lived. After half an hour of explaining her situation to security, they let her into the compound after deeming she was safe and sane. 

  It was close to eight in the morning when she showed up at the door, ringing the doorbell multiple times until someone opened the door. It was Lucy’s mom who answered. She was still dressed in her robe, rubbing her eyes with the look of confusion.

   “Who is it?” Helen asked, aloud unlocking the door. “This better be interestingly good if you’re here ruining my Sunday rest.”

“Is it true?” Sera asked as she entered in. “Is Jace here?”

   “Please come on in, Sera,” Ms. Harrison replied sarcastically. “Make yourself comfortable while you’re at it.”

   “I went to the Hospital,” Sera confessed. “They told me he’s out. He’s been out three months now and you and your daughter never bothered to call or text.”

   “We both didn’t think it would be appropriate,” said Ms. Harrison. “You are married to someone else. It’s not your place anymore.”

   “I just need to talk to him,” she said, her voice breaking. “He needs to know why I did what I did.”

   “Lucy already told him everything Sera; she even showed him parts of your wedding to Arthur.”

   “Why would she do that?”

   “She’s a strong believer in the term seeing is believing.”

   “Every doctor I spoke to said there was a ten percent chance he’d recover. In medical terms it basically means there’s none. Had I known he would come back to me, I would’ve waited.”

   “He doesn’t even remember the accident. All he remembers is lying on the couch with you, watching a movie.”

   “I just wanna see him,” she told her as tears came falling out of her eyes. 

   “He’s upstairs sleeping, when he wakes up I’ll tell him you dropped by.” 

   “Upstairs,” she muttered while pointing the ceiling. “I need to see him, only for a moment.”  She started running up the stairs, ignoring Ms Harrison’s voice.

   “Sera!” she shouted. “That’s not a good idea,” she warned.

   Sera went barging into everything that held a door, her breath becoming aloud as her hands began trembling. Almost all the rooms she had opened seemed lonely, but on the fifth one her search was over. She saw him lying there on his stomach with a freshly written tattoo of her name that stood boldly on the right side of his back near his shoulder. Tears ran down her cheeks as Ms. Harrison watched from the door. Sera sat beside him, passing her hands through his soft, long hair. She kissed him gently upon his tattoo before walking out to meet Ms. Harrison.

   “Can you give him this?” Sera asked as she gives her a piece of neatly folded paper.

   “Of course.”

   “His mom and sister should know he’s alright,” Sera replied before walking away.