One sick love story

Intensive care

I wake up hazy and I can see about 4 shadowy figures crowding round me as i wake. I try to sit up but a large hand rushes to my shoulder and forces me back down telling me not to try and sit up.To just remain seated. I just want to know what on earth is going on here. I don't remember anything. Where am I? Why Am I not aloud to sit up? Am I ill?
Things start to become a lot clearer and I can vaguely hear a familiar voice. " Ben" I say
" hey Darcy, how you feeling?" He replies softly. He comes and perches himself at the end of my bed.
"Um,okay." I reply in a voice that doesn't sound like my own.
"Thank god I was so worried I didn't know what to think...I ...I..."
"Ben just tell me what's going on." I stay sternly In a voice that's deeper than my dad's.
Before speaking he takes a large breath. Then starts talking really fast.
"I rushed over to you and I felt your pulse.. And and you were unconscious. Your heart wasn't beating. I screamed for miss Grunch and she immediately called an ambulance. I..I.. I thought you were dead. I was so scared so worried for you I felt so sick inside, and I was worried I never got to tell you how I really feel about you." He took another long breath. " I'm in love with you Darcy, and I never want to live without you." I don't know what to say. The answer still isn't clear on what happened to me. And I am so shocked with the fact Ben just told me he loved me.
All I can say is " I love you too" there are a few moments of silence until I realise I still don't know why I'm here. I try and sit up again. I scream a little in pain, Ben pushes me back and tells me to stay lied down. Suddenly my face is as close to his as ever and he leans in to kiss me. ,my lips press against his, it is comforting but also extremely painful. Suddenly I can no longer breath and I am fighting for air. He let's go of me and I cry for help. He shouts out for doctors and about 3 comes flooding in. Ben is pushed out the way by the doctors and in an instant I am surrounded by them, one attaches an oxygen mask to my face. I am so scared and confused I don't even know what to say. So I just cry. The doctors do all sorts of things to leads and cables all around my body reattaching things adding more things, I force my oxygen mask off my mouth but the doctor forces it back on. A small tear runs down my face, but it hurts to cry.

After a while the doctors all leave part from a young female and an older male (and Ben of course).
"Hello Darcy, I'm going to be you nurse okay. Is there anything you would like to ask me?" My breath goes back to normal and they remove the oxygen mask.
"What's going on?" Is the only thing I have to say.
"Well were not exactly sure at the minute."
The very young( probably not much older than me) nurse stares up to the ceiling and takes a big breath. The reality that there might be something seriously wrong dawns on me.
She continues " there's nothing extremely obvious going on at the moment. But because you threw up blood, and you went unconscious for a little while, were going to run some more tests okay." I don't reply as I'm just too tired to speak. But I give her a nod to make sure she knows I heard her clearly.
"How long have I been here for?" I suddenly realise.
"Not too long. You've only been asleep for just over a day. Your mum should be here soon so I will bring her in okay."
Im so nervous for when my mum arrives. I can't bare her to see me looking like this, attached to life saving machines, barely being able to breath on my own. The endless lecture that I will be okay will be torture. But then it hits me, will I be ok?
I decide not to ask any more questions and I just try and convince myself that I will be okay.
A little while later the doctors all leave and now it's just me and Ben in the room.
He comes and sits on my bed, right next to my head. He starts running his fingers through my long but dirty hair. "Your going to be okay."
After a while I reply "I know"
"Darcy, I'm in love with you" he just randomly says. "And I know we've only spoken properly for the past few days. But I can't help it. I fell in love with you the first day we met. And whatever's going on. I will always be there for you. We'll go through this together."
I don't know how to reply, I just give him a huge smile ,then he leans into me so his lips are inches from mine. He sweetly kisses me but carefully so I don't flinch with pain and says "your going to be okay. I know you will." He then pauses. "You'll be home in no time"
He kisses me again but with more force this time. I ignore every pain I have in my body and wrap my arms around his neck. We just hold it there. Feelings of relief and happiness shoot through my body, then he let's go. he slowly guides me back onto my pillow and within no time, I fall asleep.

I wake up slowly, and I'm in a different room. It's much quieter this time and I'm alone. There's two beds but the other ones empty and the whole room stinks of disinfectant. It makes me feel even more sick.
As my eyes adjust I look around the room. The walls are painted a pale blue colour and there are stickers of cartoons characters everywhere . I must be in the childrens part of the hospital.
Still feeling tired, I yawn and attempt to lie back down and go to sleep.
Until a sweet scented voice from the corner of the room stops me.
"Mum?"