Roses ♢ Tanner Braungardt

16: Please Wake Up

Tanner's POV
I watched it all. I tried to stop it, I really did. But it was impossible. Even if I had superpowers so I could go super fast, I wouldn't have been able to stop it.

I feel absolutely horrible. There is not a time in the universe that I would feel even worse than now.

I remember my strangled cries for help after the trigger was pulled. I remember me screaming for her not to leave.

I remember her eyes closing. I remember her mouth moving, trying to form words and make sound but nothing was coming out.

Now, I'm at the hospital. She's alive, but in a coma. It could take months for her to wake up.

I hate this. I'm sitting in her room, staring at her almost lifeless body. It's only been a few hours since she was shot, but her skin is so pale and her body look so fragile, yet peaceful.

They got the bullet out. She had a long surgery.

I just want her to wake up. I read somewhere that if someone's in a coma, sometimes they can hear everything around them, but they cant see, say, or do anything.

Because of that reason, I've been talking to her. I've been talking to her a lot. I'm just hoping she can hear me.

"Kasey.. I have no clue if you can hear me, or if I'm just talking to myself here, but if you can.. I know I've only known you for such a short amount of time, but.. I-" a cry escaped my throat. "I love you."

I place my hand atop of hers and it seems as if she responded. Her hand flinches, but relaxes a moment later. I wonder if she's controlling this, or if it's all involuntary movement.

"Please wake up." I say. That will be the last sentence I say, so I don't waste my voice in case she can't actually hear me.

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It's been 2 days since she was shot. She still hasn't woken up. I don't know what to do.. I've only left the hospital once and it was yesterday. Taylor came. She told me to go home, shower, take a nap, and clean myself up. She said she would let me know if anything happened.

It's weird, Kasey's family hadn't come to visit her. Not once.

I just waited and waited for her to wake up. She was my world now. People would say I'm going too fast, but I don't care. I'm falling. And I'm falling hard.

I'm falling hard and fast. In this short amount of time I've known her, she has become my world and stolen my entire heart.

She's a thief. And a great one at that. I don't know how she's done it. She's a beautiful, perfect thief.

Everyone says "nobody's perfect". That may be true, everybody has their flaws.

But true love is when you find everything, even their flaws, perfection. And that is what I see with Kacey. All of her 'flaws' she calls them, are absolutely perfect and adorable.

I just want her to wake up so I can tell her I love her and know for sure that she can hear me.

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a/n: I know I know this was a really short chapter! But I really wanted you guys to have something to read in this book!

I have a question for you. Should I post shorter chapters more frequently or longer chapters less frequently??