The Amethyst Ring (A Hunter Hayes Fanfiction)

Chapter 18

                                  Hunter's POV

It's been two weeks since Jinger left. I swear I somehow miss her more everyday. We did 2 shows without an opening act until Danielle could come. I kept it down about why Jinger isn't here. I just said that a family member of hers was badly sick. Nothing about us breaking up was mentioned. I cut the We Were Us duet and I do If You Told Me To by myself now. Its just not the same anymore though...I don't even quite feel the same during the show at that point. Just not as pumped. Luckily nodbody has noticed yet. I can't really remember a time when I was the sad. I mean going through middle school and high school was bad but it was different. It hurt bad. Really bad. But it was a different kind of hurting. I can feel this aching, longing for her. The past week I've cried five out of seven nights. The other nights I was just too tired or I probably would have. I just need her back in my life. I feel like a part of me is gone when she's not here. I feel like I'm slowly falling apart without her...

  

                                       Jinger's Pov

I've been staying at the hospital almost every night since I got here. The second night and one night when Jordan really wanted to stay here I stayed at my apartment. Other then that he's been letting me stay here. But even with all that I still can't stop thinking of Hunter. I thought being away from him would help but I think his absence has made it worse. I'm sitting at the window staring out, thinking about it all when I hear a series of beeps and soft mumbling. I rush over to Isabelle's bed and see her eyes start to flutter open. I gasp and call out for the doctor and nurse. I get shuffled out of the room and wait for about two hours. Then the doctor comes and talks to me. "Everything was fine. No memory loss and no permanent brain damage. You can go see her." I smile and thank him. I walk in and see her awake and it just overwhelms me with joy. "Hey Isabelle." She turns her head over to me and grins.

"Jinger!!! What are you doing here!?!"

I gently giver her a hug. "I came to be with you. We weren't sure if you were gonna make it."

She looks slightly stunned. Then confused.

"But how are you not on tour with Hunter now?"

"I left to come with you."

"YOU WHAT!?!?!" She exclaims.

I spend some time explaining the situation with the tour and Hunter to her.

"Jinger Jessica Jones, you're plumb, flat out crazy." She says, looking at me like I've lost my mind. Maybe I have. I laugh a little at her and say "Isabelle you're my best friend. You're like my sister. I wouldn't leave a sister in this situation alone. I love you Isabelle."

She smiles gently.

"Thank you Jinger. This means so much to me. I never had any siblings and well just...Thank you. Now I know you want to stay and take care of me but you need to go and straighten things out with Hunter.  I'll stay with Jordan for about a week and a half like the doctor said."

I smile.

"I'll get everything set straight then. But we can stay at my place for a little while until you can go. What's a little bit more time gonna do?" After a good bit of arguing with her I get her to agree. The doctor let's her leave around 5pm and we go to my apartment and settle in. Finally around 7 when everything is settled down, I call Hunter but get his voicemail. I leave him a message telling him about the whole situation. I'm about to end the call with telling him to call me when I softly add in 'I miss you.' Then I hang up. He's in Oregon right now so it's only about 5 there now. He's got a show tonight though so I'm not sure when he'll respond. I'm just so thankful for Isabelle being fine right now...

                                     Hunter's POV

I walk into the bus to do one last little check up before I head into the arena. I check my phone and see that I have a voice mail for Jinger. It must either be great news or terrible news if she contacted me after what we agreed to. I play the message to hear what she had to say. THANK THE LORD ABOVE!!! Isabelle has come out of her coma and she'll be staying with Jinger for a little. She says that she wants to talk. She pauses and softly says that she misses me. I'm about to call her back then stop. A crazy, insane idea comes to me. I pack up and head straight for the airport, leaving a note on the bus explaining best I can. I get the next flight to Nashville and next thing you know I'm on the plane. I basically just blew off a show at a minutes notice to go see Jinger. What person in their right mind does that? I'll tell you who. No one. A person madly in love though... That's a different story...

                                      Jinger's POV

I head to bed around 11pm with still no reply from Hunter. I guess he'll answer tomorrow or after the show. If he even wants to talk to me now. I fall asleep praying that he still wants to be together and doesn't hate me. I wake up to a strange noise. I look and see that its 2 in the morning. I realize that the noise was the door being knocked on. Only certain people can get up here after hours so it must be a neighbor. I walk over and open the door open it to find Hunter standing on my doorstep...