Wishing for Sunshine [the sequel]

Chapter 6

Danny POV

It's been three days. Three whole days since they took her out of the medical induced coma. They say she's healthy and will wake up, but yet she's still asleep.

I thought this kind of stuff only happened in soap operas and in the movies. Why won't she just wake up!

Every minute that passes my worry and anxiety builds up. I keep bouncing my leg and when I'm up I'm pacing the floor. I just don't know whether to cry or yell right now. I just want her to wake up.

"Danny. Danny. Danny!" A voice calls out to me.

I turn my head to see Ava sitting there and I look across from me I notice Collin. I see the worry on her face and Collin is just as lost as I am as he sits in the chair.

"Ava." I mumble before I turn to hide my watering eyes.

No one understands what I'm feeling or going through. Yeah Collin is feeling sadness and fear of losing his sister. Ava and Jacob are worried and sad that this happened to their best friend. But me, I'm feeling so much more than that. I feel the guilt and pain for what I've caused her to endure.

I'm the reason she ran outside that night. I'm the one that brought her into this lifestyle and told her to stay after she gave me hundreds of chances to end the contract before we got to involved. It's just that I can't save her, I can't help her, I can't change the outcome and it's all up to her and it's just hard to not be in control.

"Danny, why don't you leave and get a burger or something. You haven't left the hospital and when you do its just to shower and change clothes. You stressing over this isn't going to do anything, it's just going to destroy you." Ava said in a worry tone to me.

I turn to say something to her about how stupid that was and that I belong here until she wakes up, but I saw her face and I knew this was taking a toll on her too.

"Yeah you look like a mess." Collin said and maybe that vow of silence he had going on wasn't such a bad thing when he gives me those smart remarks.

Maybe they are right and I should leave for a couple minutes to just get some fresh air and gather my broken self up.

But I just want to stay and wait for her to wake up and then I'll leave once she does wake up.

Ava is right about me taking some time to myself but on the other hand I'm so worried that I'll be out and she'll wake up and I won't be here to see her and tell her that I love her and that I chose her and not the stupid money.

The last thing that she'll remember is me not standing up for her right away. She ran before hearing my decision. I don't want her to go another minute thinking she isn't the most important thing in my life. I'll do anything to have her by my side again.

"Danny, you need to leave for a few minutes." Ava said to me again and I just couldn't leave, not now.

"Ava, I need to stay. What if she wakes up and I'm not here." I plea to her.

Ava quickly stood up from her chair. "What if?! What if?! Danny that's what you keep saying, and look she's not waking up! She's not going to wake up!" Ava screamed at me before bursting into tears and running out of the waiting room area.

I got up and ran towards Ava and tried to hold her hand or something. She kept pulling away from me and trying to get free from my grip. I know I'm a monster, I've caused all the pain.

"Ava, she going to wake up! Listen, Em is a fighter she's going to wake up." I tell Ava over and over, but was I really telling her or was I telling myself that.