Unbelievable(Benny Rodriguez Love Story)

Time to Choose

Two Week Later

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Rosa
                I sigh sadly, looking at Aqua who was covered with wires and all sorts of machines connected to her. It was depressing, enough to make anyone cry but my tears were all gone. I look to the other side of the bed to see Benny laying his head on her bed as he rested in a chair. His hand was tight on her hand and his cheeks were stained with tears. He was sleeping which is good because he's been here everyday, through visiting hours at her bedside wishing for her to wake up. Aqua has been out for two weeks now and the doctors were starting to lose hope of her ever waking up again, but they knew better than to tell Benny that. We all did. He was heartbroken. He refuses to play baseball anymore which I'm guessing has something to do with that's how they became close friends. Their lives surrounded around the ball game and now that part of baseball is gone from him, he can't bring himself to play. Everyone in the small suburb comes to visit her to see if she has waken up yet. Philip and Benny kind of gotten into a fight the first day we were allowed to see her. 

~~Flashback~~
                "What the hell Rodriguez! You and your damn big ego just about killed her!" Philip came in screaming.
                "No I didn't! It's your fault that any of this happened! If you hadn't been so clingy maybe she wouldn't be the way she is!" Benny yelled back, getting up defensively.
                "At least I wasn't afraid to admit my feelings for a girl instead of being some wuss!" Philips yells back, getting in Benny's face.
                "You know that I like her! You knew that she was the only girl that I ever liked!" he yells.
                "Well maybe you should of made that clear to Aqua instead of going to date Jennifer Gardenette," Philip says.
                "I-I-" Benny gets cut off by Philip.
                "No. She was broken when you did that. When you called her worthless. When you called her a bitch, a whore, a slut. Every time she cried because of you, she came to me. I don't like her in the romantic way anymore. Not that there's anything wrong with her, it's just I knew I'd never have a chance because she's too caught up in you even though you just put her down," Philips says angrily then walks past Benny and takes a seat on one side of the bed.
                Benny sighs and sits down on the other side, taking Aqua's hand in his. He looks at her face with regret and guilt in his eyes.

~~
                Ever since that day, Benny has been silent. We all knew that Benny liked Aqua but we never thought that it would tear him up this much. Suddenly Aqua's heart monitor starts beeping uncontrollably then it flat lines making Benny wake up abruptly and start to freak out. He calls for a nurse and he looks to Aqua worriedly. I notice that his face was a bit more stubbly due to the fact he hasn't shaved in ages. We get kicked out of the room and Benny takes a seat, full out sobbing into his hands. I sit next to him, rubbing his back gently.
                "Shh Benny...She'll make it. It's Strike-Out we're talking about..." I mumble softly as I look to the closed off room.

Aqua

                I was in a white room that had a bed along the wall. There was one window and a dresser. I look around confused as to where I was. Last thing I remember is sneaking out of my house and crossing the road. I see a woman who was tan, short with dark brown hair but the bluest eyes I have ever seen except mine. I take a step towards her and she moves back.
                "Don't dear. Not unless you're ready to leave everything behind," she said in an elegant, velvet sounding voice.
                It made me want to sleep. She was wearing a plain white dress that was two fingers wide at the shoulders that go to her ankles, and she was wearing no shoes and a gold band was on her left ring finger. I study her and then I realize that me and her were practically splitting images except I was a bit darker than she is and my hair isn't straight, it's wildly curly. I gasp as my eyes start to water. This woman was my decreased mother.
                "Mom?" I ask in a soft watery voice.
                She smiles softly, her smile sending warmth through out me. She nods and motion to the window before speaking, "Yes. I am your mother. I am sorry that I left but trust me, it was never intentional. I wish I never left the house on the stormy night. I never saw that man come up behind me. I never heard him. One minute I was walking away angrily after having a fight with your father and then I was here, wondering where I was until my dad was here talking to me. Darling, it isn't your time yet."
                "My time? My time to die?" I ask.
                "Yes. You are currently dying right now. Your heart just gave out," she says, her blue eyes holding sympathy in them.
                "I want to die. There's nothing left for me back there no more!" I exclaim.
                She frowns and an image shows of Benny sobbing into his hands in a hospital then another image shows doctors surrounding me as my heart rate monitor was showing no heart beat. I heard them state a time and I assume it's the time that I died. I felt myself start to feel less connected and color started to show in the room. My mother's figure started to become clearer and I could see the scars on her chest of where she was stabbed repeatedly.
                "There is a boy waiting for you. He may have done some terrible things to you but know that he cares for you. Darling he is sobbing over losing you. Don't be afraid to let him in. In ways it reminds me of your father and I's love story," she says softly. "You have to go back to him. You have to go back to your siblings. To your father. He would be crushed. They all would. What is your choice?"
                "I-" I sigh and think. Do I really want to go back? Back to a world of pain and hurt? was it really worth going back to pain? Up here everything seems much more simpler, and I would be with my mother and grandfather.