How Everything Changed (Book 4)

Chapter 52

*Jeff*

"...Can you hear me?"

I groaned as I moved my hands up towards my eyes, trying to rub the sleepiness that I felt from them. Looking over, I saw that Ryah was sitting next to me, holding my hand. She moved her hand up to my cheek and rubbed it gently.

"Its okay...Matt's on his way," she said softly as she kissed my forehead.

A few seconds later, Matt walked in, and he wasn't alone. Morgan walked in right behind her, and she gave me a small smile. Unfortunately, that didn't comfort me in the least.

"Oh God!" I yelled at her. "Go away!" When she didn't move I started yelling at Ryah for her to get her out of here.

"Jeff, calm down sweetheart. Its just Morgan. She's not gonna hurt you baby I promise," she said squeezing my hand lightly. At this point, Morgan had backed up into Matt, who told her that she should go. I felt a lot better about it, that is until Morgan ignored him and walked right back over to me.

"Didn't you hear me the first time!? Go aw--" I stopped when she wrapped her arms around me. That's when I felt relief rush over me. With the relief, came the guilt. I was feeling guilty because I had yelled at Morgan to go away, when she took the time to see me when she could just not come at all. Suddenly, I didn't feel like yelling anymore, I just felt like I needed to let it out. That's when the tears fell. Now, Morgan never saw me get very emotional...maybe a few times, I would let tears fall in front of her, but never did I start crying as bad as I did now.

Morgan didn't say a thing, she just let me cry on her chest, running her hands down my back in a comforting manner. I wrapped my arms around her tightly, but not so tightly so she couldn't breathe. She still didn't say anything, she just kept running her hands down my back softly till I calmed down. Once I did, I pulled away from her and felt my cheeks get hot from embarrassment.

She walked over towards the door and closed it softly, closing it off from Ryah and Matt, who I knew were listening. She then turned around and walked back over to me, pulling up a chair as she did. "Jeff," she said grabbing my hand and rubbing my knuckles softly. "Why do you keep passing out everytime you see me?"

I didn't think that I would have to have this conversation, so I just acted like I didn't know what she was talking about. "What do you mean, Morgan?"

"Jeff," she said raising an eyebrow at me. "You passed out several times, and one of those times was in front of me."

I thought about it for several seconds. "Well..." I said, turning my head towards her and smiled. "I had a dream about how we were walking in this field. You were wearing this beautiful white dress and we were back together." Morgan rolled her eyes playfully and smiled at me. "We were talking about good things, that is, until Ethan showed up." I frowned slightly and turned my head away. "He popped me in the face and suddenly we weren't in that field anymore. We were in the hallway of the arena, and I got up off of the floor from where he pushed me over and walked over to you. You had stood over him and he was dead. I paled for a second before trying to ask you what you did. I touched your shoulder and you held me up against the wall." Tears once again found their way to my eyes, and I noticed that Morgan had some tears in her eyes as well. "Y-you didn't have the white dress, but you had the outfit that you sometimes wore to the arena."

"The Mortal Kombat one?" Morgan asked me, still holding my hand.

"Yea, that one. Y-your eyes didn't have the love that they had before, but hate. When I asked what you were doing, you kicked me in the stomach and held me back against the wall. You said that you've wanted to 'do this'" I said, putting finger quotes around "do this", "for a long time. I had screwed you over so many times with so many women, and when you asked me to stop, I wouldn't."

She nodded in understanding. "Go on."

"You said that men like myself and Ethan don't deserve to live at all, that we didn't deserve to breathe God's precious air. Then you killed me." At this point, the tears fell down harder and I tried to calm down. "It-It felt real, it really did."

"Was it because I held up a knife to your throat and told you that I wouldn't hesitate to finish Ethan off?" Morgan said, her face a mask of shock as she wiped the tears from her eyes.

"I'm not sure. I was okay with that because I knew better than to screw around with that. At least I thought I was until I had that dream," I said, my voice shaking. I thought I was gonna break down again when Morgan hugged me again.

"You don't have to worry about that," she said burying her face in my hair. "I wont ever do that to you unless you gave me a good reason. Ethan has every right to die for his treatment of you."

We heard a throat being cleared and we looked up to see Matt and Ryah. "I hate to bring this up to you," Matt said. "But visiting hours are over."

I pouted slightly and looked at Morgan telling her to do something about that. Morgan smiled and rubbed my head softly. "I'll see what I can do about that," she winked.

...

Later on, we fell asleep. Morgan slept in the chair, and naturally I slept in the hospital bed. I was deep in sleep when Morgan woke me up by wrapping her arms around me, climbed in bed, and just looked at me. "How are you feeling?" she said, running her delicate fingers over my cheek. I smiled as I caught her hand before it fell from my cheek, and kissed it quickly. "Better now that you're here."

"I seem to have that effect on you a lot don't I?" she said. She climbed on top of me and kissed me for a while, which I happily accepted. After a few minutes, I felt my breath hitch in my throat and suddenly I couldn't breathe. I felt suffocation settle in as Morgan stared at me with an evil smile on my face. The heart monitor I was hooked up to beeped rapidly and I felt like I was dying.

The last thing I remember was Morgan's evil looking face.

...

"Jeff!" I heard someone scream. I woke up screaming as two nurses had to hold me down to try and sedate me. "Get her out of here!" I screamed as I was afraid that Morgan was gonna try and kill me. "Get her out of here!" One of the nurses walked over to me her and whispered something to her. I don't know what was said because while they were talking, the younger nurse stuck a sedative in my IV and Morgan's teary eyes were the last thing I saw before exhaustion took over me