Rainbows after Hurricane

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Three months later...

              "How long is it going to take?" Dianna asks impatiently, as she tilts her head to the side and looks up at Asher who is quietly sitting at the edge of the bed whilst Lilly and Meredith are busy packing up her stuff.

               "Calm down, girl. Zach is doing the last minute formalities and then we will be off from here." Asher replies with an amused smile as he stares down at her lovingly.

              "Hopefully, I will never have to come back here again." Dianna sighs; leaning against the bed post as she happily watches her mother and best friend packing away her stuff from this wretched place for good. It's been three whole freaking months that she's been cooped up in here and she can no longer stay here even for a second. She has already overstayed her visit.

                "Now, now. Don't be ungrateful. If it wasn't for this place you couldn't have been healed properly." Asher reprimands in a playful tone, as he helps Meredith zips up bag.

               "Yeah, and if it wasn't for this place I would have been running my boutique instead of sitting here and doing stupid physiotherapies for no apparent reason." Dianna supplies, stubbornly, then, adds, "I was perfectly fine, and didn't need any treatment. I always knew there was a reason why I hated hospitals so much."

Asher rolls his eyes just as Meredith shakes her head, deciding to stay quiet since she's too used to her tantrums. "Whatever helps you sleep at night, babe."

Dianna opens up her mouth to shoot back a smart retort when the door to her hospital room opens, and in walks Zach with Jason following behind him. Meredith's face lights up in an instant, and she crosses the room to engulf him in a tight hug before planting a chaste kiss over his right cheek.

                  "Hi," Meredith whispers breathless, losing herself in his cerulean blue eyes.

                 "Hi," Jason murmurs, brushing his lips slightly against hers, "Miss me?"

Meredith nods shyly, eyes beaming with happiness of a newfound relationship. Jason leans in closer to kiss her but an awkward cough halts him in place, and Meredith rolls her eyes at her best friend. "Really, Dianna?"

                  "What?" Dianna shrugs her shoulders innocently, hiding in her laughter with amusement in her eyes. "I am thirsty."

                "Yeah, right." Meredith says sarcastically, pressing up against Jason's side. "I bet you were thirsty like you were stranded in a desert for hundred years."

Dianna chuckles, and her heart swells with joy when she notices the way Jason is watching her best friend. Jason and Meredith—who would have thought? If three months ago anybody had told her that Jason and Meredith likes each other, she would have laughed off in that person's face and even would have given that person the best shit ever told award. But, now as she stares at the two persons standing before her with so much love in their eyes, she couldn't have been more wrong.

So many things have changed since the hurricane that invaded this town over three months ago. She averts her eyes from Meredith and lands on Zach and Asher who are quietly discussing something under their breath, and if possible her heart swelled double its size. She had been waiting for this moment ever since she returned home. She had tried hopelessly to get them back together, and when finally she thought there's nothing she'd do and that they'd never be together, things changed for the better.