Being the Girl

39 -- Unbroken Pinky Promises

 Hey everyone! Sorry I took so long, but I've been extremely busy and my guitar has been calling me name. :P So... last chapter before the epilogue! EEEP! I can't believe this is really almost over. Geez I feel like I could cry right now. Anyway, an exciting last chapter, no? I hated writing it, but we'll see how it all turns out. Well, thank you for reading! Please comment, vote, and fan! Love you guys!

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A week passed. The same thing, no progress, no loss. He could be this way forever. I hadn’t gone to school and after school the other guys came to check in and stayed for a while. Sometimes they would switch off rolls of who would stay with me, but mostly it was Garrett and Ashton. Three more days. Nothing. It was torture. Pure and utter torture. If I thought him breaking my heart was bad, it was like a blade of grass compared to this. At least I knew he was still there when he broke my heart. Now he might not ever be again.

It was around lunch and Jenna and his parents were taking their lunch break. I was huddled in Ashton’s lap, barely awake. I stayed in the arms of the guys most of the time. If they weren’t there comforting me, I would break down and cry. Ashton was calmingly stroking my arm and I was listening to the constant heart monitor—in silences, I liked listening to it, making sure his heart was still beating—when a memory came to me.

I suddenly stood up. Garret and Ashton looked at me carefully. I ran my fingers across Alex’s cheek. I talked to him and touched him a lot. I know it made no sense, but it made me feel better, getting it off my chest even if he couldn’t hear or feel it. “Remember the night we were laying under the stars with Ryan because the guys didn’t trust us alone? You asked me to be your girlfriend and then… then we made a pinky promise.” I smiled in spite of how pained it was. I took my pink into his. I wrapped mine around his and his lay limp. “We promised we’d love each other forever.”

I closed my eyes and a tear slid down as I listened to the heart monitor. And suddenly I felt a small movement. I could have sworn it was just my imagination, but I felt his pinky slightly curl around mine. My eyes quickly fluttered open to see what I never thought I would ever see again—Alex’s crystal blue eyes. “I-I never broke that promise,” he said, his voice hoarse and barely above a whisper.

“Alex!” I screamed. I practically jumped on top of him as I wrapped my arms around his neck and buried my face into his chest. I looked up at him as I began to sob uncontrollably.

He looked at me concerned. “Danni, what’s wrong? Why are you crying?”

“Why am I crying?! I’m crying because you were in a coma for a week and I thought you were going to die! You stupid idiot!” I screamed and cried into his chest. He smiled and wrapped his arms around me. I looked over at Ashton and Garrett who were both smiling uncontrollably. “Garrett, go get a doctor. Ash, call his parents and Jenna.” They nodded and did as they were told.

I looked down at him and glared. “And you. I swear to God if you almost die again I will kill you! I thought you were going to leave me,” I said, my voice softening to a whisper as tears streamed down my cheeks. “I thought I was never going to hear you say, ‘I love you too,’ again. I was never going to—”

“I love you too?” he mused, looking down at me. I furrowed my eyebrows together in confusion. “Doesn’t somebody have to say I love you first?”

I smiled, tears still in constant motion down my face. “I love you, Alex. I never stopped. Everything I said was a lie. I was hurt.”

“Danni, about what happened. I need to tell you—” The doctors came in and I had to get off of him. They begin to check and test things. They finally said he would be fine after recovery and some rehab. Soon his family and the rest of the guys came from school. After a while the doctors were done and he got caught up with his family, immediately his eyes went to me. “I need to talk to Danni alone.” Everyone nodded and left, knowing our situation.