Love in the theater

Chapter 19

Loretta was sleeping after being awake for awhile and Oliver kept looking at her sleeping with a constant smile on his face. The thought of going home, with her, made him feel so happy.

Suddenly the sound of someone knocking on the door took him out of his thoughts and Richard walked in.

"Hey man" Richard said with a smile

"Hi" Oliver said as he smiled back at him and shook his hand with his free one, the other one holding Loretta's hand.
"How is Mary doing?" he asked, a little concerned about his friend

"She's okay thanks god, the surgery went well she just needs to rest now" he smiled, not revealing the exact truth to his friend.
"You seem to be doing better, how's Loretta?"

"She's good, the doctor said we could probably go back home in two days so that's amazing news but she really needs to rest" Oliver said with his eyes fixed on her

"I'm glad, do you think about telling her that you like her?" Richard asked and Oliver chuckled

"I already did, we are together !" he answered exitedly

"Poor woman, she doesn't know what she's doing" Richard said as he playfully shook his head and felt Oliver hitting his arm

"Yeah but she doesn't need to know" he chuckled and then looked at him with a serious look "I want to ask you, do you know more about Roberta?"

"Not really, they arrested her when I was at the apartment but i don't know where she is now. The officer told me that he'll want to ask you questions but he's waiting until everyone's better"

"I really want her to pay Richard, pay for torturing Loretta, stabbing Mary, everything. She doesn't deserve to live after what she did. I'm so mad because of her we could have lost the loves of our lives" Oliver said, getting a little upset

"She's in jail now, we can forget about her, we just have to focus on getting our girls well. I'll have to go back to Mary now, I'll come back later, bye"
He said as he went to the door and walked out

Oliver turned his head back to Loretta to see her waking up.
"Hey there, you just missed Richard" he said smiling

"Did something happen?" she asked as she started being worried

"No don't worry, he told me that Mary's surgery went well and Roberta is in jail. You see? Only good news" he said trying to stay positive

"Good I'm glad" she smiled
"Can we go home today? Please Oliver I'm tired of this bed, it's hurting my back at this point" she said making him laugh

"Love, it's only two days and then I can bring you back to your apartment, I'm sure you can wait" he said, rubbing the back of her hand

"That's the problem, I want to go back as soon as possible. We can run away together and they won't even know" she said with a desesperated face

"Loretta stop" he laughed "you know we can't do that, let's just wait"

"Okay" she sighed

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After two days in the hospital, it was finally the time for both of them to go home.
After bringing the car to the hospital, he went back to Loretta's room and opened it to find her waiting on the bed, with her bags around her and her coat, scarf and shoes on. Oliver couldn't help but laugh.

"Are you waiting for something?" Oliver asked as he chuckled

"No but I'm waiting for someone and that person's here so we can FINALLY go back home" she said as she "jumped" out of bed, took her bags and walked to Oliver as fast as she could which wasn't very fast.

"Loretta you're gonna hurt yourself, first I'm gonna take those bag and then you're gonna go in the wheelchair" he said pointing to the wheelchair that was next to the door

"But, Oliver, I can walk, don't worry for me come on" she said as she started walking to the door until Oliver stopped her

"I want that ass in the wheelchair okay?" he said as he took her bags from her and led her to the wheelchair

"okay" she said laughing as she sat on it

Oliver went behind her and pushed her out of the room and to the entry of the hospital.

"Can I walk now?" she asked.

Oliver looked at her and sighed "Yes you can but don't hurt yourself, please"

"I won't" she got up and went to kiss his cheek as he wrapped his arm around her "Let's go now".

When they got to the car, Oliver helped her to get in and then put all their things in the boot of the car.
He then drove them home.

"It feels so good to finally see the outside word, I missed it" she said as she looked through the window of the car

"When you'll be better, we could maybe travel, what do you think?" he said as he quickly looked at her and focused back on the road.

"I say it's a wonderful idea" she placed her head on his shoulder

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When they got home, he helped her get in bed and then left to go take their things out of the car.
Loretta was waiting for him to come back, looking around when she saw one of her shirts on the floor.

"I'm back" he said as he walked in the bedroom. He saw her looking at something. "What are you looking at?" he asked as he sat beside her in bed

"Do you know why this shirt's here?" she asked, wondering why she would have put it on the floor before Babette's funeral

"Oh uhm well maybe I came here and was missing you so I took one of your shirts" he looked at her, a bit embarrassed

Hearing him say that made her fall in love with him even more.
"Don't be so embarrassed, that's the cutest thing ever!" she got closer to him and took him in her arms "I'm here now"

"I'm so glad you are" he said as he kissed the top of her head "I love you so much, I can't even think about what Roberta did to you. Imagine if Richard arrived too late, you would be dead and i-i couldn't have lost you" he said as tears started running down his cheeks.

"But he did, let's not think about the what if, we are both together, we are home, we are healthy and that's the most important for me" she said as she took his face in her hands and dryed his tears.

"You're absolutely right, I'm sorry for breaking down like this" he said as he wiped the last tears he had on his cheeks

"Now let's take a nap together" she said as she laid down

"I think I'm just gonna clean the apartment and prepare something to eat for when you wake up" he said, getting up

"Babe come back here, you need to rest as much as me" she said as she opened her arms for him.

He immediately layed next to her, with her arms wrapped around his waist. "I like it when you call me babe" he said with a smile on his face even though she couldn't see

"Then I'll always call you that" she said as she fell asleep.

Seconds later he also fell asleep, both of them felling happy to be in each other's arms.

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