~Imogen's POV~
A month has passed...and I don't feel as if I'm changing, am I even supposed to totally change? I haven't self harmed in that span of a month, how could I anyways. Zandra's and my goal is to get out of here together, and that's what we are going to do.
I try to be more optimistic and try to realize how much I have, and I'm actually starting to get it. There are so many people out there who suffer more than me. Look at Zandra, she lost both her parents...I'm lucky to have mum.
Zandra has improved as well, she always says to me. She says that after a week or so, to make sure she won't relapse, the doctors are letting her go. I feel that meeting Zandra is one of the best things that could have happened to the both of us.
We have helped each other through the rough times, and just been there for days when someone needed a friend. I almost feel, happy. For one of the first times in my life...it seems to be looking up.
Mum, Aspyn, and Miles came to visit a few times in the past month as well. Aspyn and I cried for almost the whole visit, trying to catch up on everything, and when she left there were more tears. Poor Miles sat there just trying to comfort Aspyn.
When mum came I totally lost it. I didn't realize how much I would miss her. She told me how lively I looked already, and that I'd probably be out in no time. Which is true, because two days after Zandra is released from the hospital so am I.
We were so excited when we found out that we accidentally might have smashed one of our desks in our room. That night we stayed up talking until morning about plans and what we would do together. She lives 35 minutes away from where I live, which isn't that long when you live in Vancouver, and she plans to attend our high school for senior year, if you can imagine!
We spent the nights after a long day just talking, watching movies silently under the covers together, or just sleeping...which is what we are supposed to do.
Over this past month, Zandra has really grown on me. Whenever I look at her it feels like I can't breath, my body warms up whenever she's around me, and she makes my life so much...so much...brighter. But I would never be able to tell her that.
I feel like I can tell her everything about me...I kind of already did.
We are walking down the halls through the hospital into one of the rooms. It's our free time today and we are going into one of movie rooms. Lucy is taking us.
We walk in and realize it's just us. The room has one flat screen tv mounted on a bare wall, and there are beanbags, pillows, chairs, and blankets piled on the floors. "I call the blue beanbag!" I yell sprinting across the room.
"No I want that one!" Zandra screams running up behind me.
I get to the beanbag first and plop down on it. Zandra gives me a glare and then smirks at me. Wait what? She then drops right down on my lap and snuggles into me.
Okay? I wrap my arms around her and grab a blanket from the floor and covering ourselves.
"What movie do you guys want? We don't have many but-"
"Let's watch Lilo and Stitch!" Zandra's loud voice cuts Lucy's words off.
"Zandra, don't you want to watch something else? You always watch that." Lucy says with a short laugh.
"Nope, I'm good." She says and then turns to me. "Unless you don't want to watch it Imogen."
"No it's fine...I've actually never seen it." I say shyly.
"What!?" She says with a shocked face. "Oh my god! We are watching it now." She says making our final decision.
"Okay then girls." Lucy replies, walking over to a shelf and pulling out a disc, before walking over and putting it into the tv.
The movie starts to play the previews and we fast-forward through them. The movie begins and Lucy walks over to a wall and flicks the lights off, making the only light in the room glow from the tv.
"I'm going to step out really quick okay girls? I'm going to trust you to behave, since you are leaving in a week....you don't want to be here longer?" Lucy says, before smiling at us and heading out through the door.
She came back in five minutes later to tell us that if we were okay on our own, that she would come back when we called her at the end of the movie...or someone else would.
Zandra and I are snuggled together in the beanbag and the blanket on top of us, our eyes trained on the movie. We are only a few minutes into the movie when then cutest blue alien thing comes on the screen. "Oh my god! That's the most adorable thing ever!" I yell at the screen.
Zandra giggles, "Just like you." She says quietly, and I stop breathing.
She moves closer into me and my arms automatically wrap around her tighter. I can't focus on anything else the whole movie.
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When the movie finishes, Lucy comes to take us back to our room so we can have some time to do something before dinner. I read some of my book, and Zandra takes a nap.
When one of the nurses comes to take us to dinner, I had to wake Zandra up. Dinner was uneventful, and when that was finished we headed back up to our room. Over all today was a pretty lazy day I have to admit.
Before Lucy could leave our room I asked her to take me to the washroom. I stripped my clothes and got into the hot shower, already steaming.
I took my time brushing shampoo and conditioner through my hair and spent five minutes just letting the hot water run down my body. I dried myself and then pulled on some shorts and a big t-shirt.
After brushing my dripping hair, Lucy took me back to Zandra's and my room. She said goodnight and then I opened the door.
I stood shocked in the door way when I say Zandra standing with a piece of paper in her hands. In sloppy writing wrote, 'I couldn't help not asking...would you like to be my girlfriend?'
I can't even think straight, and all I can do as nod. A huge smile breaks out across Zandra's face.
"Are you sure?!" She asks.
"Yes." I say before she goes rambling on.
"Because I don't want to have you find someone else when we are discharged. I just want to be with you. I want to be able to go out with you, and be able to hold your hand, and kiss you, and just hold you close to me." She says before taking a breath. "And I know this is probably really soon, but I don't want to be without...yo-"
I cut her off, running across the room and squeezing her as hard as I can. We are going to get out of this...and we are going to get out of this together. "Me too." I say
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AN~ I love them so much! Sorry it's another short chapter, I was writing this on a bus.
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Xoxo
~Shadow❤️
