Destined Love

Sad Truth

Hailey's POV:
My body jerked upwards, my eyes wide like I had just seen a ghost, my head turning and twisting side to side, trying to figure out where I was and what had happened.
"I'm in a......hospital....." i muttered still trying to remember what made me end up here.

My trail of thoughts ended when I was tapped on the shoulder by a nurse , I turned my face to her, and she greeted me whith a warm smile.

"Good morning, how are you feeling?" She asked, with her smile never leaving her face
"What happened? What am I doing here? I was in a car a second ago, and....and now....I'm here?? I asked slowly, awaiting her response. She sighed before slowly shaking her head. "You don't remember, do you?" She asked with a broken voice.
I shook my head still looking up at her as I waited for her answer.

"Well, you got into a very bad car accident....." I immediately cut her off " an--an accident??" I said trying not to raise my voice, "Yes, you and the baby were the only survivors. You were kicking and screaming while the cops tried to drag you to the hospital and you needed to be restrained, so we did that...." she said shaking her, but still managing to maintain conductivity.

And that was all it took. I remembered it all now.

All the memories from last night, all the events, scenes and scenarios playing in my head like a horror movie. I didn't want to believe it, I wanted to think for a moment that I'd just be a nightmare. A nightmare that I'd wake up from any minute now. And I'd be able to wake up to Brooke and see her holding me, telling me that it was all going to be okay, but alas It wasn't. It was the opposite, it was reality, the hard, painful, heart crushing and inescapable reality.

I felt hot tears spill out of my eyes, as I tightly bit my lower lip trying to suppress my almost erupting screams, I shut my eyes trying to control myself and I almost had. until the damn nurse said it, the sentence that made me snap.

"Atleast you still have the baby, right?"
I swear, that sentence made me loose my mind, it brought out something in me, something dangerous.

It hit me like a million heavy bricks, my eyes shot open and my legs shot up from the bed, as I dangerously turned to the nurse, I quickly yanked her by the shoulders, with my eyes still very wide.
"THE BABY?! SHE'S HERE RIGHT?!" I asked with nothing but hope that she was here and she was safe. The nurse looked at me stunned and scared almost as if I were a crazy person. "....yes, but--MA'AM!!!!" She yelled back at me as I immediately let go of her shoulders and ran out of the room to find Gabriella.

I didn't care whether this was a public hospital, honestly I'd preferably say that I didn't give two fucks. Brooke left her in my care, and I'd rather die than to ever witness something bad happened to her.

I ran around the hospital quickly opening door to door, while having indistinct voices call to me, but I didn't care. Gabriella was somewhere in this hospital and I was more than ready to find her.

I still had tears flowing down my cheeks as I tried so desperately to find her, I was short of breath, panting, and sweating, but I wasn't going loose hope.
Finally I opened a door that had a sign which read 'Do Not Disturb' I quickly but carefully slid in to see a sleeping Gabriella cleaned and wrapped with a cotton blanket.

She looked like an angel, she had blonde hair just like her mother, small pink lips, chubby rosy cheeks, her hands were curled into small fists as I gently held her in my arms, her breaths were steady, slow but soft, she smelled so fresh.

I gently layed a kiss on her forehead.
"I never got the chance, but welcome to the world little one, I'm Hailey, your big sister,
It's nice to finally meet you. Wow....I guess it really is..... just you and me now. That's it, that's the sad truth" i said tears now spilling from my eyes as I tried to help my self from breaking down right then and there.

"Don't worry I won't let anyone harm you. It'll always be me and you,okay? I promise you that?" I said with determination in my voice. And it was true, I was more than determined to provide and protect Gabriella, now.... until the day I take my last breath.