abused & rescued ↣ nathan sykes

Waking Up In Strange Places

Kayla's POV:

It's so cold. I can't see anything. Why is everything dark? I hear a voice...it's sweet and soft...its Nathan! He's telling me to wake up, to give him any sign that I was alive. Of course other than what sounded like beeping of hospital monitors. I try so hard to give him a sign that I'm ok. I try to move anything...my toes, fingers, wrists, anything. With every ounce of strength that I had left in my weak, almost lifeless body and I was just barely able to squeeze Nathan's hand.

I can hear him gasp and it appeared that I had gotten my strength and life back inside me because I was able to slowly but surely open my eyes, only to squint them nearly shut as my eyes tried to adjust to the bright lights in the seemingly all white room. When my eyes are able to focus a little bit more I can just make out Nathan's beautiful face.

Nathan will always be attractive to me but looked so awful. He looked like he hadn't slept in weeks, his always shaven face was now scruffy and sad, and his hair, altogether it was clean, was a ruffly, scruffy mess. I soon could no longer see Nathan as he had fled the room screaming for a doctor.

So I was in a hospital? I looked down and saw many tubes in my right arm, and then at the many machines that the tubes hooked me up to, the white room, sheets, and gown and then it hit me, I was definitely in a hospital. But for what? I couldn't remember much from...wait what day is it today? I look at the calendar; Wednesday. So yes it was yesterday because the boys and girls came over to eat. Soon enough both the doctor and Nathan returned to the room. The doctor smiled at me,

"Hi there Ms. Snow, how are you feeling?" The doctor asked. I slowly shrugged my shoulders,

"I'm alright...I'm a little uncomfortable though." I said quietly, I'm surprised that they could hear me. I look down and then look up again at Nathan and the doctor. I look between the two of them and furrowed my eyebrows slightly,

"What happened?" I asked. I wracked my brain as hard as I could to figure out what had happened but I couldn't do it. I started freaking out because I couldn't remember and started to cry. Nathan rushed over to my side and turned my head gently towards him,

"It's ok baby it's ok, if you can't remember it's alright don't worry about it. Ok?" He said more than asked. I sniffled and nodded, but I couldn't stop crying. Nathan pulled my face to him and softly kissed my forehead. There was a cough and we both looked at the doctor,

"Would you like to know what happened Ms. Snow?" The doctor asked. I nodded my head,

"Yes please. And please, call me Kayla." I said. The doctor nodded. And then he explained everything that happened. Trevor, the fight, Nathan getting hurt, the gun,

"You got shot in the back, you're very lucky the bullet missed your spinal cord." The doctor said. Nathan rested his lips against my forehead and shook his head gently. The doctor decided we needed a minute and let us be. We sat in silence for just a moment before Nathan spoke up,

"Why did you move in the way?" He asked as a tear from him landed on my cheek. I looked at Nathan and lifted his chin up with my hand gently,

"Because I couldn't let him hurt you anymore than he already had...I just couldn't Nathan I couldn't..." I whisper as I start to cry again. We both sat there and cried together for a little while, a sad yet sweet intimate moment that I very much enjoyed. It didn't even matter that we were both crying and that I was very uncomfortable and weak.