Cross My Heart

Chapter 46

See? Here I am! Truckin' on! I ain't lyin'

Two days later...

GWEN'S POV:

"Ok, sure. Yes, I'll definitely call you if....WHEN he wakes up. I promise. It was so great to finally meet you all. Gavin's so lucky to have a wonderful family." I said to Gavin's mum and dad and brother.

We were standing outside of Gavin's room. It was absolutely KILLING ME not to be IN his room. And it had killed me for the past two hours, as I had to wait here in the hall with Nate, while his family all visited. They're his actual family, so I was lowest in the order of things, so I got kicked out while they visited. I mean, not actually kicked out...I gave them my spot. I could have stayed and let just one of them visit at a time, but....they're his family. I couldn't do that.
And the doctors allowed all three of them in there at once, which was good. Took up less time, anyway!

They were saying goodbye now, and they'd be back tomorrow. His mum told me he's in good hands with me by his side, so she didn't want to stay here all day and bother me.

They had finally all found flights in. They'd been trying for a few days, but there were terrorist attacks and and also weather problems going on all at the same time, so they finally just made it now. They hadn't even learned that he was kidnapped till a few days ago!
His brother Oliver got here first, and sat in his room for an hour with me. I let him have his privacy at first, then he noticed me standing at the window, and he told me I could come in and stay with him also. We got to talk in that time, which was nice. His brother was about 2 years older than him, and he was really nice. He looked a lot like Gavin, actually, so he was a cutie. His hair wasn't nearly as ginger as Gavin's though. No tattoos that I noticed, either. He was more quiet, laid back and sort of shy and reserved than Gavin, too.

When I came back into the room with him, his eyes were red and puffy, so that made me sad and teary as soon as I walked in.
Of course, I went in and went straight to Gavin's bed and told him I was there again, and gave him a kiss and a hand squeeze.
Soon, his family got there, and Oliver stayed in there while I gave them all space. I didn't really meet them until a while later. Their top priority of course, was to see Gavin. They'd been waiting long enough.

Soon though, his mum came out to the hall where I was sitting by the wall resting my head on Nate's shoulder, and she sat with us and we all talked. She was happy to meet me and asked me lots of questions. She talked with Nate, who she knew very well, obviously. We told her the entire story...except we left the sex out. All of it. I didn't know if she even knew anything about Gavin's prior story of how he met me and rescued me, but...we just left it all out. He could tell her later, if he wanted.
Plus, it'd be embarrassing to me in the first place.

There were more tears as we told the story, and she hugged Nate a lot when it was done, and cried and thanked him for trying to take a bullet for her son, and thanked him for possibly saving his life anyway, by knocking him an inch or so to the side, so it missed his heart.
It was a good talk.

But I just wanted to be in there with Gavin. Oliver and his dad were in there meanwhile.
Then his mum went in and the dad came out. He said he'd get the story from his wife, so we didn't have to tell it all over again for the 30th time. But we did get to talk a while and get to know each other. They both are so nice. And Oliver too. I was jealous, I'll admit. Not that my mum isn't nice...it's just that Gavin grew up with such a great family...it must have been a great time being a kid for him and his brother. The way he always talked about his family to me, and the way he'd talk to them on the phone, I knew they were all very close, even if they were far away and didn't talk every single week.