Meeting Innocence

16

Beeeeeeeep

Beeeeeep

I hear the sound of a hospital machine beeping over and over but I can't seem to get myself to open my eyes.

They are just to heavy.

I force my eyes open as the beeping would not just stop.
Just after opening my eyes, I automatically close them again as the bright light that welcomed me stang my eyes.

I slowly start adjusting my eyes to the light and then finally to my surrounding.
I see walls painted in sky blue, a small window on the white door.
To my left a see a young lady dressed in white uniform like a nurse.

Nurse
She is a nurse.
Am in the hospital.
Why am I in the hospital?.

Suddenly I am being engulfed in a rather tight hug.

"Oh my God!" I hear Verona yelp in a high pitch relief filling her voice.

"Thank God you are OK, are you crazy?!" She says while pulling away from me.
All I could do is just stare at her.
'Why is she mad?'
I ask myself.

"Excuse me madam, can you step away from the patient for a well. I need to check if everything is OK" she the most sweet full manner, maybe that is why Verona is not giving her death glares.

She walks towards me with a smile.
She checks my eyes using a touch then the drip in my arm.
She starts to write something on her board.

"How do you feel?" She asks her eyes still on the drawing board.

"A- A..." I try to say but fail as my throat feels dry like the desert.

"Your throat is dry, here have some water" she says hand me a plastic cup of water that was just by my side.

"Thank you" I say after finishing the water.
I see vero  step out of the room with her phone pressed to her ears.

"How do you feel?" I bring back my eyes to the nurse.
Romantic blue eyes meet mine and I couldn't help but warm up to the purity in her eyes.

"I feel fine. Why am I here?" I ask and before I could read her emotions, she rushes to answer.

"Well...." She says prolonging the well.
"Your friend rushed you here when you were unconscious. You have minor burns.
You're lucky you know, if the burns got deep it wouldn't be easy to shield them cause they would have still left scars on your body" the nurse explains.

Reminding me of the reason I got the burns in the first place.
My vision becomes blurred because of the tears crowding my eyes.

"Ms.." Am brought back to reality by the nurse who swiftly shake my shoulders so she  could gain my attention.

"Umm.. Ahh.." I respond not being able to see her clearly.

"I said you are to rub this cream on body and take these pills twice a day." She says.
All I do is take the cream and pills from her.
I could not form words, tears drying from my eyes.

'He left me'
How could he do this to me?
To us?
Why!

I see Verona walk in nodding towards the nurse who later on walks out of the room after talking to Verona.

"How do you feel?" She asks walking towards the right side of the bed.

"Was it Jacob?" I ask her.
"The one you were talking to on the phone, was it Jack?" I rephrase my question after noticing the confusion on her face.

"Yes" she answers after a while of hesitation.  "He wanted to know how you are doing" she says.

"What time is he coming?" I ask her.

I miss him.
I want to see him.

I lift my right eye brow in question when she does not respond.
I notice she is nervous.

'He is not coming'

"He was going to come but he is just busy. He told me to whish you well for him" she says with a shaky nervous smile.
I could clearly see that she lied.
He did not whish me well, he never said that.

'He is not coming"
'He doesn't care!'

He doesn't care about me!

"Look Bella you have to under-"

"I want to be left alone" I cut her short not ready to listen to her speak for him.
Defend him!

"Please..." I urge as I see her hesitant to leave.

'He doesn't care'
I chant as I cry myself to sleep.

'He does not care about me'
'He does not love me'
He never did.

*****-***†*********--**--************-*****

I am snapped out of my sleep when I feel a touch on my cheeks.
A caress.
I jerk up and sit straight looking around the room.

Nothing.

I see nothing am just met with the darkness that consumes the hospital room.

Somebody was here.
I know that, I could feel it.
Somebody watching me.

After a while of looking around the room, my eyes land on something.

A figure.
Hiding in the Connor.
If it had not moved just a bit, maybe I would have not seen it.

Am scared, I clench the bed covers to my chest in a tight grip.

"Whose there?" I ask in a shaky voice looking right at the figure which I assume is a figure of a full grown man, almost the same height as Jacob.

"Ahh" I gasp as realisation hits me like a brick to the head.
I should have known.
I should have known just from the touch. The feel of the caress.

"Jacob" I call out to him but he does not even respond talk less move.

"Jacob I know it is you, just come out of the dark" I say.
I see him start to walk towards me but then stops at a far distance from me then rushes out the door.

Jacob.
He came.
'He came' I say to myself both disbelief and joy consuming me.

He came.
He does care.
He cares.

He loves me.
'He loves me'

See you in the next chapter.

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