Sweetest Touch (ManxMan)

Chapter 21

Chapter 21

Ivan’s POV

I knelt next to unconscious Gavin and inspected his pulse. It was beating normally. I checked his head, just in case if he hit his head again but found no trace of blood or any kind and I was relieved by it. “Gavin?” I patted his face.

I heard a sound of people running towards us and I looked up to see a shocked face of Devon coming towards me. “Ivan! Ivan! What’s going on? What happened? We just arrived and we heard an explosion—oh my god, Gavin!?” he rambled and gasped loudly when he saw Gavin lying on my lap.

Tears threatened to break through my eyes and I shook my head. “He just remembered everything, Dev. He remembered me, us. I can’t lose him!” I cried and tried to wake him up again. “Don’t move him, yet. There are more ambulance coming as there are more people injured from the explosion,” Gabriel took off his jacket and covered Gavin’s body with it. Devon knelt beside me and rubbed my back, calming me down.

“It’s going to be alright, Ivan. He will be okay,” he said. This time tears broke through. “What if he hit his head again? What if he doesn’t remember me again? It was hard, Dev, when he didn’t remember me. I don’t think I—“ I started and Devon immediately grabbed my face with his little hands and glared at me.

He didn’t say anything to me but just stared at me smiled. “He’s okay, Ivan. He’s going to be okay. Even if he forgets, he will remember. He will always remember you in the end,” he encouraged me while patting my face gently. I took deep breaths and nodded my head even though I could barely register how much it meant for me for him to hear those words.

Paramedics hurried by and one of them reached us and immediately checked Gavin’s condition. Another two came by with the stretcher and brought Gavin into the ambulance. I found my legs to follow wherever he went and I sat inside the ambulance with him to the hospital. He was still unconscious and the paramedic pulled off his beanie and arched his eyebrows looking at the bandage wrapped around his head.

“He just got discharged from the hospital for a head surgery last week,” I told him. He wrote something on a board and nodded his head. “Let’s hope he didn’t hit his head,” he simply said.

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Gavin’s POV

At first, it was darkness, then it was the same throbbing sensation on the back of my head. But I couldn’t feel or move my hands and it was as if I was a floating entity without a body. I heard voices, just hushed ones as if they were afraid that I could hear them but I focused on them nonetheless as it appeared that my sense of hearing was the only that was working right now.

I tried to focus on why I was here but nothing came to mind. Just darkness enveloping my whole being. Gradually the sounds got louder and I cringed at the throbbing sensation that turned painful.

“He’s back!” an unfamiliar voice exclaimed and I opened my eyes slowly to see bright lights above me and beeping noises around me. Something was clamped over my face and it began to dawn to me that it was an oxygen mask. I drew a deep and loud breath as if I had been holding my breath for a long time. I breathed harshly and people in white and green scrubs moved around busily and someone held my arm and injected something into it. I was still weak and I just let him.

When I opened my eyes next it was night time, I guessed. All the lights were turned off except for the ones near my bed. The oxygen mask was still plastered on my face but at least I was able to breath normally again. There were no pain anymore and I glanced around to see a view that made my heart constricted.