Nothing's Fine - Sequel to "Loved By You"

Chapter Eleven: "Applesauce"

"Okay. Wait, wait, wait." he said, stopping me mid sentence but, it was alright. He had just woken up and I was just glad to be able to talk to him again. He lifted his big blue eyes and put them on mine and I couldn't help but smile under his beauty. "Can you explain it again? This time a bit slower? Sorry, my head still kind of hurts."

I reached my head forward pressing my lips to his forehead. "Of course baby." I said reassuringly as I put down the spoon I was using to feed him applesauce. It felt a bit weird to do that in the first place but he begged and I can't refuse him. I stood up next to his bed and looked into his eyes and started again.

"Okay. So we were driving down 81st on the way to real estate agency. Do you remember that?" he asked me to take it slow. I'm going slow.

"Yes." he said after squinting hard and looking up at the ceiling, trying to place the street in question.

"Alright so we got to the intersection with that one bar that we didn't like because it smelled too much like pickles. Do you know where that is?"

"Yeah honey, I'm not daft!" he said with a chuckle.

"Alright, alright. You asked me to take it slow!"

"Not two year old slow!"

"Hey, I just thought after the applesauce, you might have wanted..." he interrupted me with a laugh.

"Just shut up and finish your story!" he said smiling.

"Okay. So we pulled out into that intersection because we had a green light, but a drunk driver going in the opposite direction slammed into us before we could make it through causing the car to roll seven times and almost into the little creek by that area." he looked stunned. Like I had just told him he won a Nobel prize for being the first man on Mars. "You understand?" I asked after a second or two of silence.

"Yeah. I get it. It's just so weird! I mean, I remember seeing the car, but I didn't feel anything until I woke up. It's like there is just a giant gap between the crash and now, you know?"

"Yes. And the doctor said it was perfectly normal Boobear. You are fine. So... Fine." I said in a flirty way as I straddled his legs on top of the bed. He looked at me with sex eyes. But they quickly changed to worry. "Whats wrong?" I said pulling back a bit.

"The wedding! Haz! I completley forgot about the wedding!"

"What about the wedding love?"

"I want to walk you down the isle, not roll!" he said

"Boobear please, he said you would make a full recovery. And if we have to push the date back, just for that, we will. It's all okay. Really!"

"No baby, it's not okay! That was a super great time and the save the dates are in the post as we speak! We cannot change it now." I put my finger over his lips.

"Louis, it is going to be alright. I don't care if I have to carry you down the isle, we are gonna figure everything out but right now you need to rest. If you want to heal, you'll listen to me. Now, do you want some more applesauce?"

"Please." he said. I stood up and got to the door before hearing his voice pipe up again. "Harry?" he said. I poked my head back in.

"Yes my love?"

"What ever happened to Stacy?"

I walked back in, placed the empty applesauce container on the bedside table and sat next to him on his bed.

"So remember how we had that discussion before leaving about you forgetting your seatbelt?"

"Yeah."

"Well, Stacy, for whatever reason, had forgotten as well."

"What? That makes no sense! We specifically talked about how dumb it was not to wear a seatbelt. She couldn't have just forgotten!"

"But she did though."

"Okay. So where is she now?"

"Honey, Stacy died." he stared at me in disbelief.

"What?!?"

"She was ejected from her seat and the car rolled right over her. She died on instantly."

He sat there. Gazing at the wall.

"Haz, can you give me a minute?"

"Sure." I walked out but the tears were already streaming before I completely close the door. I heard them. I decided not to go and comfort him. He would've probably just pushed me away anyway. Instead I walked down to the cafeteria for more applesauce.

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I actually typed this all out before but it quit on me so I had to re-do it.

Love you all,

-N