Jacob's POV
It's been 3 months since we went on a hike up Suicide Hill. It's been 3 months since Echo fell and has been put into the hospital she's in a coma she hasn't moved or anything since that day. But I swear before she passed out I heard her say "Tony come back" it was a little plead for help if only I was beside her then maybe she wouldn't have fell. I stare at her long black hair it was washed and the back of her head has a 1 inch long cut and it's maybe half a centimetre deep but they only keep it clean. Her leg needed stitches because when she fell she opened her wound two times worse than when she first got it. Her leg also needs a cast she bent it wrong and it's fractured. She broke one arm and she scratched her face up pretty good. I touch her warm soft hands as I did the day she fell. I examine her face her cuts were treated properly and they will disappear instead of turn into scars. Her cast can come off in a few more weeks. Her stitches can also come out soon. I hear Shelby in the hall crying she hasn't left for longer than 2 hours since the accident I have had to leave multiple times due to school I only come on the weekends. I do my homework and when I finish Bill or my dad drives me over to see her. I feel my heart slowly tear apart as I see her lay there motionless and sometimes I can still hear her voice telling me she kicked my butt at a video game. Or how she laughs when we play tag and I couldn't catch her. Or maybe when she was angry and wouldn't talk to us but she would go off somewhere and sing,her powerful voice and the words she spoke may have not been beautiful, but she made them beautiful. I feel a tear threatening to come out but I blink it back. I see her arms full of muscle and her legs soft and smooth. I look at her face and I remember when she flutters her eyes open when she wakes up. I remember how I almost told her how I felt about her. And most of all I remember how her and Journey are almost a spitting image of each other it's just height,weight,and eye colour that helps you identify those two. I hear a click of a heel and I look up and see Journey her long black hair going down to her elbows because she recently cut it. Her green eyes staring at me in curiosity. Her smile isn't at all like Echo's but she looked close enough. When I first saw her walk into the hospital room I swear I saw Echo smirking at me but it was only my brain playing tricks on me. I look back at Echo and I see her face furrow I get over excited when she crunches her face a little but she didn't move besides that. I feel my heart sink again I get up and walk out of the cold hospital room and down the empty hallways and out the door. I was done waiting for Echo I was almost positive she wasn't coming back. I remember when the doctor said it could take months for her to wake up and it's a 90% chance that she will forget everything about everyone she may not even remember her name. That crushed me there's only 10% chance that she will remember me and her family but 10 out of 100 isn't much. I walk towards the coffee joint and I order a French vanilla latte and I sip at it. Until I notice a girl staring at me she had blonde hair up to her elbows she had icy blue eyes her chest popped out and her legs smooth her body curvaceous and her smile was seducive. I wink at her making her blush the way Echo did when I complimented her Stop thinking about Echo! She left you. I see her staring at me again and I realize that to girls I looked yummy. I wrote my cell number on a napkin and I got up I put it in front of her and I walked out the door "Dumb ass that wasn't even your number" I say out loud to myself I wrote down Echo's number from the info page I looked at it was her cell. I don't bother and I walk away to the park being empty I felt like I could be myself. I look out on my phone where I wrote poems.
LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT
LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT IS AS RARE AS A BIRD WITH NO FLIGHT,
OR A BEE THAT LIVES IN THE GROUND,
IT MAKES YOUR HEART POUND,
BUT YOU KNOW IT LIKE A CIRCLE IS ROUND,
BUT WHEN NOT RETURNED YOU FEEL LIKE A DOG IN THE POUND,
REJECTED AND NOT LOVED AND OUT OF PLACE,
OR YOUR DROWNING AND EVERYTHING ELSE HAS AIR,
IT HURTS EVEN MORE WHEN YOU FIND OUT YOUR NOT IN HER PAIR,
YOU WATCH HER LAY THERE LIFELESS AND NO BREATH,
FOR IT WAS LOVE THAT CAUSED HER DEATH.
