Perfect - Book Two

Waking up from a Coma

"Will she be okay?!" I hear Josh ask the doctor, holding his hand tight in mine. "I can't lose her, I especially can't lose her on her birthday at that!" I feel Josh holding my hand; my body going in and out of being conscious. Not able to talk to Josh. Not able to ask him if Bennie is okay. Not able to look and make sure my beautiful ring is still on my ring finger. 

"We don't know yet. We'll have to wait and see, she got pretty banged up in the crash." The Doctor explains to Josh and I feel a kiss to my lips softly. "It's all in the matter of time until we see what happens." I can hear everything. 

I feel Josh's hand let go, and hear a loud noise like he's falling to the floor. His head in his hands and crying out my name. I look between being conscious and unconscious to see Matt touch Josh's shoulders rubbing them. I look up to the guys and try to tell them thank you for helping him. But nothing comes out. "Come eat, Josh," Matt says and see him shake his head no, shrugging his hands off his shoulders.

Matt looks at Josh worried. Josh looks at Matt with sad eyes and then I hear the door open. Silence fills the room, expect for the beeping of the machines I'm hooked up to. I feel warmth against my side and feel Josh lay next to me on my hospital bed, singing Baby Please Come Home once through. I feel Josh's body slow and he falls asleep next to my battered body. Josh's arms wrapped around me tight. But not too tight because of getting hit by a vehicle. 

After being in and out of a coma for 4 months... I wake up, my now skinny body being pushed up into a sitting position in my the hospital bed, and I look up at Josh. "You're awake, Baby!" The tall lanky guy stands up and I look at him confused at who he is. "You don't know me?" Josh questions, sitting back down in the chair. 

I shake my head no and look at the nurse next to me, "I'm only seventeen and you must be at least 25." Another nurse and a doctor walks in and sees the confusion on both our faces. "Did I overdose?" I ask randomly. 

Josh's POV

The nurse pushes me out of the room and makes me sit with my head between my knees, as the guys walk up to us from the waiting room. "We thought this would happen. Didn't know how far back it'd be but we know know that she's stuck thinking that she is seventeen years old. Must have been addicted to something. Don't say ANYTHING that could confuse her."

I stand up, pushing myself through the door and sitting beside her on her hospital bed. "I'm sorry, who are you? And where am I?" She asks confused. Totally not connecting Josh to being in a different hospital. She thinks she's still in Sarnia, addicted to heroin. 

"You're in Vancouver, Amelia. You moved here with me, I'm Josh Ramsay."

Her eyes go wide, she stutters my name, "Jo- Josh Ram- RAMSAY!?" I nod. I'm guessing she was a fan at age seventeen... "How? Why?" she questions as Mike, Ian, Brett, Brennen and Matt walk into the room and her jaws drops more (if that's even humanly possible). "Am I legit dreaming?"

I shake my head no, and I sit next to her as the nurse walks in again, with a tray of food. She sets it in front of Amelia.  "Amelia, you are able to leave the hospital if you feel up to it..." 

"Where is my Dad? I need my Dad to take me home, I'm only seventeen," she starts to freak out.

I look at the nurse, not knowing what to say. She'll most likely freak if I tell her that she lives with me and the fact that she and her Dad had a fall out ten months ago. "Sweetie, Josh is going to be the one that looks after to you..." the nurse explains in a calm voice. I see her look up at me. 

"But, what about my Dad?"

I look at her, my arms craving for a hug and I really want to plant a kiss on her perfect lips. "You and your Dad have three provinces between each other..." I blurt out stupidly.  "You two had a fall out 10 months ago..."

"What do you mean?" She questions me. 

I mentally hit myself in the face and glance at the nurse, "Sweetie, you can trust Josh. He'll look after to you. Look at that ring on your finger. I think that's from Josh," the nurse says calmly, pointing at my hand. 

"Okay... but I want to call my Dad..."

"Um, I don't think that'd be a good idea..." I say and she stands up, looking at her reflection. I see her jaw drop and her knees go weak. I catch her by the waist before she hits the ground.

"I don't look like I'm 17..." I pick her up in my arms and sit on the side of the hospital bed, she doesn't move from my arms; she just curls up against my chest. Her eyes closed. "Why do I feel so attracted to you when I'm only 17 and you're... what... 27?"

I nod, "Yeah, I'm 27." I feel her arms tighten around my waist and I notice the nurse and the guys smiling. "Ready to go? Ready to get memories back?" I look down at Amelia and she's staring up at me. She nods scared.

"Let's get her out of that hospital gown first than," the nurse says. "They are a little breezy to wear out of the hospital rooms." 

I set her on the bed with ease and grab a pile of clothes from the chair.  "Here you go," I set them on her lap. "Sorry though, they are mine. Might be a little big."

She looks up at me and smiles, "Thanks Josh." A smile like she knows me only by Josh from Marianas Trench. She lost the last 10 months of memories because of a drunk driver that decided to drive the night she decided to walk home.

The nurse pushes all of us out the room and sticks her head in the room, "Do you need any help?" She walks in and closes the door behind her. I am guessing she needs some help. 

"What am I going to do? She thinks that she's seventeen and I'm in love with her," I slide down to the floor and Mike kneels in front of me. "What Mike?" I say when I look up.

"Dude, love finds a way. Trust me." He says as the nurse walks out of the room and nods that I can go in again when ready. I feel my eyes get wet. I really do love her with all my heart. I stand up with Mike's help. I walk in and see her wearing her favourite shirt of mine. 

She turns to look at me, "I'm ready to go..." I get lost in her eyes and she snaps her fingers in front of my face. "Earth to Josh."

"Let's go, Bennie probably misses the shit out of you," I offer to take her bag and she gives it to me, with a questioning look on her too perfect face. "Bennie and the Jets, my dog... and yours too..." I say the last part under my breath.