Strong ✅

HUMAN

J

ordan was flipping shit. He was crying and cursing and hovering over Aaliyah's body. He knew that Ashley was going to blame him for it all and most likely kill him. As Jordan had followed Aaliyah out of his house, a car came rushing by and in that moment, Jordan knew that she would be hit. The driver just rushed by like there was no tomorrow, as if they hadn't just hit a poor innocent teenage girl. Jordan rushed to the hospital after the EMTs drove her off in the ambulance.

Jordan ran through the doors, up to the receptionist desk. The older woman looked up and smiled.

"Hello dear. How may I help you?" She asked.

"I'm looking for Aaliyah Bell." Jordan panted, trying to regain his breath. Running really wasn't great for his asthma, but for Aaliyah, it was worth it.

"Are you family?" She asked.

"No, but I called her mom and she's coming as soon as possible." Jordan said. She nodded.

"Alright, I'll let you in. Room 515." She said and Jordan muttered a quick thank you before he rushed off. As soon as Jordan reached her door, his nerves ran up and down his spine.

'It's fine. She's fine. She won't be mad, but Ashley will kill me.' Jordan thought as he opened the door.

Jordan walked into the room and noticed that a doctor was in there.

"Hello. I'm Aaliyah's doctor. I'm Dr. Gray, but please call me Sophie." Sophie greeted.

"Sophie then, how is she?" Jordan asked.

"Right now, she is in a coma. Once results come back, we'll let you know more. The coma should only last a week at most, but she is in stable condition and she's fine." the doctor assured him. Jordan thanked her as she walked out the door.

Aaliyah still looked beautiful. Even with all the wires connected to her and scratches on her. Her chocolate brown hair that was in a ponytail, was taken out, but she still was the most beautiful thing he'd ever seen.

"Oh Aaliyah. This is all my fault. If I had known that my mother hated you, then you wouldn't have run off and gotten hit. I wish it was me instead of you. I love you and I just want you to wake up, please. I love you too much to let you stay here. I'm not gonna leave. I'm gonna stay every night and talk to you everyday. I promise." Jordan admitted as held the unconcious girl's hand.

The door opened and soon after Jordan looked up, she was being pushed against a wall and being choked.

"What the hell, Jordan? I get a call saying my best friend was hit by a car by your house. What the fuck did you do?" Ashley shouted as she held him by the collar of his plaid shirt.

"My parents and her mom are enemies. My mom called Aaliyah some names and she stormed out. I tried to stop her, but the next thing I knew, she got hit by a car." Jordan said. Ashley let go of him and she hugged him. Jordan was sure that Ashley was bipolar because she just went from choking him to hugging the life out of him within a .05 second time frame.

"Thank you for loving her. I know you do. Please keep her safe. Please don't hurt her, but if you ever hurt her, I will cut your balls off and feed them to sperm eating lizards." She warned and Jordan flinched at the thought of that, but still nodded.

Hours had went by and suddenly everyone was here. Everett and Axel bought her some roses and sat next to Ashley. Danny and Kendall bought her a stuffed teddy bear. Ethan and Cat bought her some chocolate that he ended up eating. Violet came by for a little bit since she liked Aaliyah. Aaliyah's mom had a crying fit for a while and she hugged Ashley for most of it. She hit Jordan once, but she recooperated with a hug. Rosa was, in all honesty, heartbroken.

"My baby girl. I can't lose the only thing I have left. That bitch was the whole reason my baby is in the hospital now. No offense Jordan, I know she's your mom, but Natalia is a stupid, selfish, grudge-holding, bitch!" She shouted.

"None taken. My mom is a bitch." Jordan said.

"Oh, Jordan. I like you." Rosa stated. Jordan smiled in return.

Jordan hope that Aaliyah would wake up soon. He didn't think that he could handle another day without her.

♦

Aaliyah looked around the white place that she was in and she couldn't help but smile. It was beautiful. She imagined that that was what heaven looked like. It was beyond beautiful. Families everywhere, laughing, playing, singing in the green fields of grass.

A man approached Aaliyah and her jaw dropped as she realized that it was Mateo, her brother. Her dead brother.

"Hello sis." Mateo greeted. Aaliyah engulfed him in a hug to which he returned gratefully.

"Where am I?" Aaliyah asked.

"Right now, you are in temporary heaven. You're in a coma, but you may still hear and see everything that is going on around you. Come with me." Mateo motioned.

Soon they left the paradise land as Mateo had told his sister it was called and he led her to a white room with a large television.

"This is a vision graph. It shows you everything going on around you in present times." Mateo told her.

Aaliyah clicked a button on the remote that Mateo had given her and a video of Jordan came onto the screen and she melted as she saw a guitar in his hands and all the boys came into display. Even Ryan was there, which made Aaliyah's heart melt.

Jordan started to sing a mellow song.

"Shut the door. Turn the light off. I wanna be with you. I wanna feel your love. I wanna lay beside you. I cannot hide this, even though I try."

"Heart beats harder, time escapes me, trembling hands touch skin. It makes this harder and the tears stream down my face."

Axel began to sing.

"If we could only have this life for, one more day. If we could only turn back time."

All of the boys began to sing as well.

"You know I'll be, your life, your voice, your reason to be. My love. My heart is breathing, for this, moment, in time. I'll find the words to say, before you leave me today."

They finished the song off with the last chorus, and then the television shut off.

"Well Aaliyah. It looks like my big sister's in love. That song couldn't have brought tears to your eyes if it wasn't someone close to your heart that sang it. He better treat you right." Mateo concluded and he walked out to give Aaliyah some time to think about things.

That night Aaliyah spent the rest of her time watching some of her most important memories and most especially the memory of the day she met Jordan.