Love At First Sight

Chapter 60

Justin's POV

It had been a while since the accident and Joseph still wasn't very responsive and was still stuck in a coma. Demi and I are losing sleep because of him. Delilah won't stop calling because of him. Because of what's been happening, Demi won't eat properly and she keeps making up excuses and it's scaring the hell out of me. She needs her little prince. I need my baby boy. Selena needs her friend. I missed his voice. I missed his amazing laugh. I missed being able to hug him and play with him and talk to him and tell him I love him and wait for his reply and I'm getting myself even more emotional just listing these things so I'm just gonna stop there.

But anyways. Selena, Demi, myself and even Delilah when she was allowed had been trying to visit him every day in hopes that he might just wake up and start talking to us, but he was still in critical condition. There were really rare days where he would wake up, it wouldn't for long and so he'd just go back to sleep. It terrified me every time though. It kept me up at night wondering if he would wake up again. Today it was just Selena, Demi and I. I was sitting in a chair near his bed, a small cup of water in my hand to quench my thirst and machines monitoring Joseph were beeping constantly. Demi and Selena were sitting at the far end of the room, Demi's head on Selena's shoulder with her eyes closed. and Selena was rubbing Demi's arm for comfort. Selena's such a great friend. I couldn't ask for a better one.

I couldn't stop looking at his pale face. The natural tan that he had had disappeared, it was that bad. All of a sudden I saw his arms twitch and his eyes slowly open.

"Oh my gosh guys, guys Joseph's waking up..." I whispered, not wanting to frighten him. Demi and Selena quickly got up and walked over to the bed, standing pretty close to Joseph.

Joseph looked around before his eyes focused on us. "D-Dad? Mom, is that you? Se-Selena?" he asked looking slightly confused.

"Hey my beautiful little prince." Demi stroked and brushed his hair back revealing a large bump and a few cuts on his forehead. Her eyes were all puffy and red as she looked at him. You could definitely tell she had been crying a lot.

"H-hi." he smiled weakly.

"We were all missing you Joey, we all thought you weren't going to wake up." Selena said, looking him in the eyes and traced his scars.

"Well...I'm a-awake now. I-I love y-you guys. J-just to let you guys know, that I-I can't express how much you all m-mean to m-me. Delilah too. Like I-I'm so relieved t-that I can t-talk to you a-a-again and..." I saw his eyes watering.

Justin's POV

Oh no, oh no, oh no..." I groaned, as Joseph faded out once again from the conversation that we were all meant to be having. Since Joseph came round we had all been trying to engage in conversation but the state Joseph was in only allowed him to talk for a while and then fall asleep for a few seconds, then he would wake back up and talk again. But when Joseph fell asleep this time, it was different. The heart monitor was meant to be beating at a regular pace and yet it was being very weird at this moment, jumping and flattening at random parts.

"Joey? Joseph? Can you hear me? Please can you wake up? I love you, please don't go. Please don't go." I whispered, feeling my eyes well up with tears.

Joseph's POV

All I could hear was distants "I love you's" coming from Mom, Dad and Selena, and I could only smile. I tried so hard to keep opening my eyes, to prove to my dad that I really could wake up, that I really could hear him and that I really do love him too, but my eyelids became so heavy that immense pain took over when I did try and open my eyes. I feel like I'm fading away from my dad at this moment and he couldn't really do anything about it. I was literally gasping for air, struggling so hard to just breathe, I couldn't even talk now and there was a constant feeling I had for someone, anyone really to come and save me from what I was experiencing. It was like every time I took a breath, a sharp pain of what felt like pins practically attacked me in my chest. SOMEONE NEEDS TO HELP ME OUT. I wasn't sure what was happening, wasn't sure if this was God's way of telling me to come home and if I was going to be okay, but right now, I had no idea. I'm tired. I'm SO tired. I've never felt so physically, emotionally and mentally drained and been in so much pain in my life. My body is just aching everywhere and I can't move anything. NO. MAKE ITSTOP. Maybe if I just shut my eyes the pain will all go away. I won't have to put up with all the anger and the misery and the torment and agony in my life, I can finally just relieve myself from all of the pain and get rid of all the demons within me. It can all just GO AWAY. I give up. I'm done. I felt myself starting to drift off, faintly hearing my mom and Selena yelling for the nurses in the background, Dad crying so hard and screaming for me to wake up, and the machines that were beeping really fast around me. I can't wake up. I just can't do it Dad. I'm so sorry. His voice was the last thing I heard. Then everything was dark and still.