Mirage [n.h.]

nineteen

"Stop whimpering your life's already messy. You'll thank me one day for this." He stated as my feet led inside of the hospital.

I pushed the glass door so I can really go inside of it. This is a hospital many kinds of people were here, but only one thing common about them is that their sick. They probably went on an accident, a nervous breakdown, or one is not feeling well. When I entered the hospital, it's all peaceful and quiet. Probably Nicholas wants me to reflect here.

I sat down on a bench just beside a small fountain and in front of the information area. I can see people entering and exiting from where I'm seated. I don't know why would Nicholas wants me to go here, he said that I'll found out the answer here in the hospital. But he didn't actually told me about which part of the hospital am I going to find that answer.

Moments later I spotted a woman that looks a lot like Ysabelle with a bouquet of flowers on her hand. I hurriedly followed her and thankfully I got in the elevator quickly with her. As soon as the elevator door opens at the 6th floor she went out and so I followed her. We went inside of the ICU area or the Intensive Care Unit and past through many rooms. As soon as we reached the room were it says 'Rivers, Ysabelle' the woman went inside.

And from there I stopped myself. I began to think what Ysabelle told me about her accident, about her being in coma for months now. Her soul is wandering off somewhere but her body is completely unstable. I peaked inside the room and luckily it was wide open. There I saw Ysabelle's body connected with tubes and she seems like she's just sleeping like an angel. 

My heart warmed a little and made me teary-eyed seeing Ysabelle. I saw the woman again putting the bouquet of flowers on a vase. She saw me afterwards and was puzzled for a little.

"Can I help you?" She asks.

"I uhmm, I'm Niall Horan ma'am." I slowly went inside the room eyeing at Ysabelle.

"Are you that ex boyfriend of my daughter?" She asks strictly.

"No ma'am. I'm one of her friends uhhh.. here in New York."

The woman's brows furrows for a while as she crossed my arms. "My daughter didn't mention any friends here in New York, especially a name like.. like Niall."

"We just kind of met before the uhmm.. accident ma'am." I replied.

"Oh. I'm sorry about her she is still not waking up. It has been.." she tries to stop herself from crying by covering her mouth. "6 or 7 months." Then a tear fell through her left eye but she quickly wiped it off with her thumb.

"The accident really hit her hard. Do you happen to know who did it?" I asked still eyeing at Ysabelle.

"Police says it was a hit and run. No one ever saw it. Perhaps a CCTV camera could tell us, but the investigation is still ongoing.."

My feet slowly went in front of Ysabelle's mom to try and comfort her."I'm so sorry about your daughter, Mrs. Rivers."

"It was an accident. We didn't want this to happen to her." She assures.

Suddenly a knock on a door disturbs us. When I turned around, a lady with glasses wearing a white lab suit enters.

"Good morning. Seems like Ysabelle has a visitor today." The doctor says as she enters the room with a clipboard on her arm.

"Let's see." She looks up the machine connected to Ysabelle through tubes. She then punch in some buttons making it sound techy. "Alright. Mrs. Rivers?"

Mrs. Rivers attention went to the doctor. "Your daughter's vital signs are pretty well. The same results we have just like last week."

"When will she wake up, doc?" Mrs. Rivers asks Doctor Santiago. I saw a name plate on the right side of her lab suit.