The Perfect Love Story

Chapter 4

MAX’S POV

“What?! No!! That isn’t true!! Don’t lie to me like that!!” I stand up, I know I’m drawing attention to myself but right now I don’t care. I’m doing it for the one I love. “This can’t be happening!” I throw my face into my hands and scream.

“Please calm down. Once you are calm you may see her one last time.” The nurse’s tears fall down almost as much as me but not even close to as much as her mom is crying. Poor Leila has no clue on what’s going on and just is sitting around staring at all the tears falling. I walk outside and scream again. I start pacing and yelling at myself for not doing anything earlier. Not stopping him. Not calling 911 sooner. I want to die but I can’t do that. I have to see her first. That’s all I need to do right now. I walk back inside and find the nurse. 

“I am ready to see Laura. May I please see her by myself first?” the nurse nods and we walk to her room. I go in and she shuts the door. I sit beside the bed and stare at her. She looks so pale. I place my hand on hers. She is really cold. I cry for about ten minutes until I feel a hand on mine. I look to see that it’s her hand. I jump up and see a worried look on her face. I rub my eyes almost positive it’s an illusion. She tries to talk and mumbles something that sounds like it should be ‘what’s going on?’ I am way to freaked. I yell for a nurse or doctor. They rush in and ask why I’m yelling. “She moved. Her hand was on mine and she tried to talk.” I look at her again but now she is sitting up.

“My god! What is going on here?” the doctor stares at her. “We need to do tests and do them now.” They rush her out of the room and about 2 hours later the doctor comes out to talk to us. “Well, she is stable, and doing very well. It seems she was in a coma and we couldn’t feel a pulse or tell she was breathing because she was barely breathing and her pulse was faint. She is doing very well and will be able to go home tonight. She has a broken jaw but otherwise she will be fine. Her jaw will take, oh I’d say, 1 week to heal. It’s more of a fracture then broken, and she keeps asking for her love… whoever that is.” The doctor walks away.

“Her love? Who is her love?” Her mom looks at me. “Who could that be?” she asks with hope in her eyes. What should I do? Should I tell her? “Well Ms. Quinn, that would be me.” I look down and blush, “You know how I’ve liked Laur for a long time?” she nods and has a huge smile on her face, I’m not sure if it’s from what I’m saying or the fact her daughter is okay. “Well, earlier, when we went upstairs to talk, I asked her out. She said yes and then um, I uh, I kissed her.” I know her mom won’t be happy about us kissing, she’s always been upset about her daughter growing up, but to my surprise, she doesn’t get upset, she wraps me in a hug and whispers’ thank goodness’ into my ear. I feel great that she is happy for us, now, we can express to everyone how much we care about each other.

I see Laura walk out into the waiting area, Leila runs to her and hugs her legs. “Laur!! Don’t ever leave me again.” Laura smiles, or at least tries and then she walks to her mom and begins to cry. 

“Do you realize how close to death you were pumpkin?”

“Yes I do.” She begins to cry again as she walks to me. “Thank you for being the first thing that I see after I woke up from the coma.” She has an adorable little lisp right now. I lean towards her and kiss her. She pulls away and stares at her mom.

“It’s okay, she knows, don’t worry darling, she’s happy.” I kiss her again and grab her hand. “Let’s take you home. You have a dinner to get ready for.” I wink at her and assure her that it’ll all be okay. 

~LAURA’S POV~

I wake up and see a face I remember seeing before. At least I think I’ve seen it before. I have a pounding headache. I lift up my head at see his hand is on mine so I place my other hand on his. He jumps. I start to say ‘What’s going on’ but when I say it, it just comes out in mumbles. My mouth hurts bad too. My whole head was in pain. I sit up as doctors rush in. The boy starts to say something but I can’t understand. The pounding is so intense I can’t even hear him to find out who he is, come on! I start to have flashbacks, me kissing him, a big man (my dad), a little girl, a woman. It all comes rushing back. While they talk I start to say his name, or what I thought his name was at least. “Max? Max?” no answer. ‘ oh well’ I think to myself. All of the sudden I am moving. I go into this huge white room and I’m put into a machine. On the side it said cat. Cat scan maybe? I’ve been in something like it before when I was a little girl and my dad beat me too. I knew all the procedures. After that there was an x-ray and then a bunch of other weird things. Finally I can leave. I grab my jacket and walk out to the waiting room. I see my mom, sister, and boyfriend. Max. I love the sound of his name so much! As I walk out Leila runs into my legs saying, “Laur!! Don’t ever leave me again.” I try to smile but it hurts really bad. I walk to my mom and I start to cry. “Do you know how close you were to death pumpkin?” she asks me. Pumpkin. Pumpkin? She hasn’t called me pumpkin since I was a little kid. I loved being called pumpkin, it has always been my favorite nickname. “Yes I do.” That’s all I can get out of my mouth right now. I start to cry and make my way to Max. “Thank you for being the first thing that I see after I woke up from the coma.” I tell him. I notice that I have a lisp. I sound so stupid! Max leans in and he kisses me. I kiss back but then remember, my mom! I pull back and stare at her. Max can see that I’m worried and tells me that she knows and that she is happy for us. He quickly kisses me again and grabs my hand. “Let’s take you home. You have a dinner to get ready for.” His voice is raspy, and he’s been crying, all for me. I have never felt so loved! He winks at me and we make our way out of the hospital.

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-Victorya