All the Little Things About You

Chapter 09: Awoken

*still Ash's POV:*

I told Liam about it and asked him for permission. He had the same reaction as my mother. He couldn't react that much because he's still in quite some shock I said that but she offered to drive me there.

"Mum?" I asked. "Ash dear... Are you really sure?" She asked needing confirmation. I told her yes, more than anything in the world, yes. If it would help her? Yes.

She still isn't waking up completely because she has a concussion and has a hard time staying awake. I was sure I wanted to do this, for her. Yeah, I have Rh negative blood type. Skylar has positive and Liam has O. Lisa has B+ and yeah... So I offered and donated my blood.

"When are you going to do it ma? Please do it as soon as possible." I told my mother. "We will Ash, we will." She replied. She injected my arm as she took the blood out from me. "Thank God they let me help one of the only people I c-care for.." I smiled as I thought of it.

The process was done and we couldn't wait to see her. Was she waking up already? Is she strong enough to go back? Have her scars fully healed? I rushed into the room as the others were home being informed.

"W-who..?" Lydia asked, trying to sit up, slowly opening her eyes. "L-lydia?" I asked as I smiled and hugged her. "Y-you're awake!" "O-of course I a-am! Wait why are you so happy?" She asked in confusion. "Why wouldn't I be happy?" I asked as I raised an eyebrow in confusion.

"W-well you um.... Kind of uh... Hate me?" She said smiling and looking into my eyes. "H-Hate you?" I exclaimed.
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"Well you do don't you?" I asked him. "W-what.. I.. No I don't.. I only did that because...." He tried to explain. "Well, it doesn't really matter and you could tell me another time." I told him, yet again smiling. He whispered, "I definitely don't hate you." As his soft lips kissed my forehead. I looked down and covered my face with my hands in embarrassment. I--Heh.... Wait a minute where are the bands on my wrists??

"Ah um... Ash?" I asked worriedly. "Yeah?" "Where are my bands?" Looking down on my wrists filled with nearly healed scars. Surprisingly some already disappeared. Damn it. They saw. "Lydia... Why do you harm yourself?" He asked with his eyes looking so soft as his overall expression looked so sad.

Oh God... I seriously didn't want to talk about it so I looked up at him again with a tear sliding down my cheek and he got the message. "I understand..." He knew that I didn't want to talk about it, I have a feeling he has something in relation to that. So he just put my head to his chest and held me there for a while.

As I was sitting down, and Ash was there beside me, someone came rushing in the room. "LYDIA!!!" Skylar screamed. Ash broke the moment and hushed her as he wanted me to rest. Skylar started smirking again. "Who are you to say that hmmmm???? You aren't her boyfriend now are you????" She teased him. "Seriously Skylar?! I can't make her get some damn rest after that?" Ash answered back. That wasn't everything but I won't say it all anymore. Ugh.

After quite a while, Liam, Diana and Caylus came in. "Auntie River!!" Caylus said as he hugged me. Caylus called me River and not Lydia because he said River is better because he wants to remind me that he has a never-ending flowing river of love for me. He's the cutest I swear.

'Caelum Alarik Archer' Caylus. My dear nephew ♡

"Caelum!" I call him Caelum because it means sky or heaven. Heaven is the place I told him we'd once again meet after we die and we'll be happy again. And so I asked them stuff and caught up.

After a while... "Ash, did you tell her?" Skylar asked. Tell me what exactly I wonder? I tilted my head and stared at them with a confudled face. He shook his head slowly and said no. His eyes turn to me and smiled. I saw him mouthing something to me while Skylar was telling him to do so but I couldn't understand at first, then later realizing he mouthed, "Help me" because of Skylar.

I just giggled and smiled back. I whispered, "That's your sister for you. By now you should know." "I do but still, I don't think I'll get used to it because it differs every time." He whispered back and we both just quietly laughed.

"Ash, thank you for what you've done...But as much as you don't want to tell her, I think we're going to have to...She'll be very grateful for it, trust us." Diana said. What was she talking about?
"Al-alright.." Ash hesitantly replied.

"Lydia don't hate me for this alright?" He told me, looking straight into my eyes. "Why would I?" I asked. "Just.. Please?" He asked pleading. "O-of course I-I won't.."

"Well, when you fainted a few days ago, I kind of caught you and so we brought you to the car. I thought that the only reason you fainted was because of dehydration but we found out something else. Skylar was tying your hair so that the nurses and doctors wouldn't have a hard time examining if they needed to. So when she asked for a hair tie I got one from your wrist and saw a peek of something red and pink. I pulled up the ties and to my surprised, they revealed your cuts and scars. Your wrist was a little bit swollen as well. They noticed that I was worried and so I told them. This time, I thought that maybe another reason you fainted was because of too much blood loss and well, I was right, both of those were the reasons. I asked what your blood type is and well, it's Rh negative and that's... Rare as hell. Barely anybody has it and it's hard to find a donor. Your siblings don't have it and neither does Skylar. There was only one person I knew who could help and I....I donated the blood..." He explained.

"I-I... Why did you think I would h-hate you? I couldn't possibly do so a-after that!! I-I... Thank you Ash!!" I hugged him ever so tightly and he hugged me back. I don't think anyone knew about what happened the other day except for Skye so they didn't expect it. We stayed hugging for a long time because well I knew that in a few days, more blood loss would've killed me and I actually wanted that but with a person like Ash? I don't think so. He may be a jerk and play around sometimes but damn, he's an amazing person inside.