Sight

Seventeen.

Lying in this room so white and so suffocating made me want to scream, but it was now Tuesday, the brilliant day the doctor had told me and blessed me by saying I could exonerate myself from this claustrophobic space, even though the room was quite large.

Avery simply sat at the edge of my bed as I closed my eyes and pretended to be asleep, "Ava, honey, what is happening to her? Do you know anything?" I heard my mother plead Avery, I wanted to frown at her shattered state, but I was asleep.

"I'm sorry, Misses Darwin. I have no clue." I heard Avery respond, she sounded lost, like I had lost her.

"Avery-"

"I'm not lying to you." Avery finalized and I could almost see my mother's eyes shining with tears but shielded with self control.

"Will you stay with her? I need... I need to go see Lloyd, I don't want to leave her, but I need to see my husband and my son." My mother's tone sounded like she was fighting herself.

"Go, Misses Darwin. I'll stay." Avery's tone was strong and tied together, and then I heard the creak of a chair and the suction of the rubber rim from around the door of my hospital room clamp to the ceramic polished wall.

"Maria, open your eyes, please. I know you." My eyes fluttered open and I smirked at Avery, she rolled her eyes, the veins in her eyes coloring into the deepest reds screaming the tiresome she felt.

Then the smirk faded, "Do you believe me?" My tone hushed, but loud enough.

"I don't know anymore, Maria." Avery's head dropped and so did my stomach.

"Avery, I saw Daniel." My voice was soft, my finger tips numb.

Avery's eyes went wide, her blue irises twisting with fear, "Wh-"

"I saw, Daniel." I repeated and Avery swallowed.

"How is that possible? I don't underst-" I cut her off, yet again.

"I don't know!" I exclaimed and my eyes were immediately frenzied, Avery's dimmed.

Then she took a deep breath and moved closer to me, her hands, fingers interlocked, on her lap and her back arched upright, her cheeks had lost their natural pink suddenly, like the blood had been sucked out of her, tendrils of her lava colored hair touching upon her cheek, seeming to brush a stroke red onto her lifeless cheeks. "Maria, I-"

Suddenly the door opened and in walked the boy with the eyes so pure it shone like the sun had kissed its golden rays upon his irises and the tornado swirls of rusted golden swiped and curled its way through them.

His hands were tucked into his pockets and the dark blue tee shirt he wore clung to his body adoringly, although his skin had grayed and there were hollows at the spaces under his cheekbones, he was beautiful.

"Maria." The English accent I adored resonated through my ears and willed my heart beat to race, I saw Avery's demeanor change as a result, as though a wall made of metal had fallen through and pushed away her emotions.

"I'll leave you two alone." Avery's voice low, she turned and picked herself off my bed, looked at Alexander and smiled with a little nod, he did the same.

The door shut behind her by the time Alexander had walked up to me, "Maria." He said again and I looked up at him, feeling quite naked without my glasses, "Alexander."

"What happened to you, love?" His eyes were so sad, so dead, they didn't glow like the stop lights they usually captured you like.

"I had a little accident." I said shyly, I didn't know why.