Make Love To Me

Remember Me

Anna POV

Wake up.

Wake up.

Wake--

'Her lungs cannot take it', I hear one of the doctor say, looking nervously at the clipboard in her hand.

'The pressure is too much', a nurse agrees, looking at me pityingly.

I am currently sitting outside the ICU, looking at the passing doctors in a very desperate way to know something, anything about Scarlette.

A hand touches my shoulder lightly. I look up to see Allen, looking wired and tensed.

Somehow, seeing him make it worse.

I remember me myself being in this same ICU, helpless and blank. I just cant believe that the reverse has happened.

 Allen wraps an arm around me and I snuggle in his chest, feeling calm at once. He kisses my hair. 'Is she going to make it?', he whispers.

'No', I tell him, burying my head deeper into his shirt.

Dont cry Anna, Dont cry....

'She's completely in life support', Dave says, his face red and tired, 'her blood pressure is decreasing by the minute. There is nothing we can do'.

'She wanted to be my bridesmaid', I say softly.

Something in her bucket list that we cannot do. It breaks my heart that her one true wish cannot happen. I just dont understand why the world is twisted up. The good guys get beaten, traumatised, abused, killed. The bad guys just..I dont know, live?!

So many questions, very few answers. I sigh as I watch another nurse hurry into the ICU.

She wanted to choose my wedding gown, she wanted to do my makeup, arrange my honeymoon locations, bid me farewell, cry dramatically, make dirty jokes, annoy me till the end..

Gone.

One single word.

Breaks me all at once.

Suddently a doctor rushes towards her parents. 'Her blood level has drastically decreased. She may just have a few more minutes. You can see her..'.

I dont wait her to finish. We all go inside, rushing past the eerie green lights. 

Scarlette looks very weak, her cheebones showing up in an inhumane way. Her red hair was withered. She did not look like herself at all.

'Scarlette, my darling', her mother weeps, holding her hand, weeping profusely.

I feel like a robot, deprived of emotions.

Scarlette coughs a little and strokes her mother's head, smiling weakly. 'You've been the best mom ever. I cant believe I'm leaving you so soon', she says, her voice raspy and worn out.

'Dad', she says, and her voice cracks, 'I love you'.

Her dad nods his head and kisses her hand. 'You too, love. Love you'.

'I'm gonna miss you guys', she says, looking at all of us. Her grey eyes land on me.

'Especially you, Anna. I'll miss you', she says, tearing up.

She beckons me towards her with her arms. I sit next to her. 'I can never see you graduate, get a job, marry...never be your bridesmaid...'

I clutch her hand in mine. 'I love you. That's never going to change. And about my wedding, you'll be remembered Scar, as my best friend. The bestest friend ever', I say, wiping my face off tears.

'Remember me', she says to all of us. 'We will, honey', my mom says as she smiles sadly at her.

'I love you all', she says.

Suddently she gasps. Her pupils dilate and she holds my hand so tightly that it hurts.

But I dont care.

'Scar, can you hear me? Scarlette, just hold on!'. I yell as she writhes about in pain.

And suddently, she stops moving. Her heart stops beating.

Scarlette is gone.