Battle Scars

chapter 30 - always have, always will

A week later, the family and I sit in the hospital waiting room while Brandon sleeps in a room. It's around 5:00 at night. Right before dinner today, Steph, Lena, Mariana and I were in the kitchen talking when we heard Brandon scream. Long story short, something went wrong, and we had to rush him to the hospital. The doctors anounced about a half hour ago that he'd be staying over night.

His nurse, a tall, skinny woman with perfectly clear skin and straight brown hair, walks out of his room to tell us he's stable and awake. Steph and Lena see him first since they're his moms of course.

After what feels like forever, but was really only about 45 minutes, his moms, Mariana and Jesus have seen him and it's finally my turn. I rush into his room, sit in the chair next to the bed, and hold his hand.

"Hey," he says weakly.

"Hey, how are you?"

"Grand," he says sarcasically.

"We're worried about you."

"Don't be. I'll be fine after a few days."

"But still," I argue, "we love you and you might not..." I decide to stop there. I was going to say 'you might not get better' but I'm trying to stay positive.

"I might not what?"

"Nevermind. Lets change the subject, I want to talk about something happier."

"How about we talk about you?" he says with a half smile.

"Me? Why me?"

"You said you wanna talk about something happy, you make me happy so...."

I smile, "Ok so, what about me?"

"I don't know... Tell me about yourself."

"But," I say smiling, "you already know everything about me."

"And...?" he smiles.

"Ok ask me something then."

"Um," he pauses, "do you like cats or dogs?"

I laugh, "I like both, but prefer cats."

"See, I didn't know that! Most people like dogs."

"I guess that's why I like cats more, 'cause most people don't."

"Interesting," he smiles again, "what's your favorite..... Band?"

"You already know this, but Black Veil Brides."

"How about your favorite color?"

"Again, you know this, but purple," I answer, "and blue."

"Your favorite TV show?"

"You know I don't watch TV, I'd much rather listen to music," I say.

"I still don't know how you say that listening to angry guys scream is the same as listening to music," he jokes.

"They don't always scream!" I correct him, defending BVB, "In a lot of their songs, they don't scream at all. Besides, you're just jealous that you can't sing as good as they can," I tease, with a smirk on my face.

"Wow. Ok then," he says, pretending to be hurt.

I laugh and kiss him. I love being able to joke around with him. And I really must love him because if anyone else offends my favorite band, I blow up!

"I need to tell you something," he says.

I'm a little worried, "What...?"

"I love you. More than I've ever loved anyone in my entire life. You're perfect to me. In my eyes, you have no flaws, just perfection. You're beautiful inside and out. I can't tell you how thankful I am to be able to call you mine. There's no one else in this world who I could picture myself happy with. Just the thought of you makes me smile. Callie, I'm fighting mostly for you. I probably would've given up by now if it wasn't for you. I just need you to know that no matter what happens, you're always going to be the love of my life."

I start to tear up somewhere in the middle of that, "Where did that come from?"

"My heart," he smiles, "I just needed to say it. It doesn't seem like I tell you it enough so..." his voice trails off and he smiles at me.

"Well I love you too, B. Always have, always will."

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Author's Note:

So here's chapter 30! I can't thank you guys enough for helping me get this far. Almost 7k reads now! You have no idea how much it means to me! And your comments are the best, they always make my day! But yeah, here's the next chapter, I hope you guys like it! Again, thanks SO much for reading, voting, following, and commenting! It means the world to me because I love writing sooo much! So, OMG, I can't say this enough, thank you sooo much!