Dark Secrets, Big Lies |Toni Topaz|

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After hearing the suggestion from Jade's doctor that seemed like it was the only thing on my mind all night. Nurses came in and out all night long checking Jade's IVs and the machines she was hooked up to. I haven't gotten a full night's sleep in a month now, but I didn't care I refused to go home and sleep. I wasn't going to sleep in our home, in our bed until Jade was next to me.

Jade had a tougher night than usual last night that explained the high volume of nurse checks. I got up and got myself cleaned up and dressed.

I walked back to Jade's bed, pulled out my phone, opened Snapchat and clicked on The Daily Mail's Snapchat story and began reading every article to Jade. That was something she did every morning while we were in bed, and I was going to continue doing that for her. After I was done I leaned over and kissed her forehead and both of her cheeks. "Crazy gossip this morning right my love?" I asked as I sat down "baby please wake up, I'm going crazy without you Jade."

I grabbed her hand and kissed it "I just want to be able to kiss your lips again, I want to hear you say I love you back when I say it." My hand was still holding hers when I felt her hand twitch. "I want to go home with you and just lay in bed all day and order food like we used to on the weekends." Another twitch of her hand. "Baby can you hear me?" I looked down at her hand and two fingers moved. My heart began to race "babe move your fingers again if you can hear me" two fingers moved again. All I could think was oh my God!!

"Baby do it again" I stare intensely at her hand and two fingers weakly gripped my hand. Tears fell down my cheeks, I immediately pressed the nurses button on her bed. Pulled out my phone and dialed it rang for what seemed like a lifetime before it picked up "Hermione you guys need to get here now! I think Jade is waking up!!" I didn't even give her a chance to say anything back before I hung up. I got out of my seat and leaned towards her face. "Baby try to open your eyes I need to see those gorgeous eyes of yours."

I stared at her face and seen her working to get them opened "you can do it baby, I can see you trying, you got this my love." I said holding back intense tears, I pressed the nurses button again. Her eyes flickering and then finally I was looking into her gorgeous silver eyes. I couldn't hold my tears back anymore "oh my God baby, you did it, you're my fighter. I love you baby with all of my heart." Just then Jade's nurse comes running in "she opened her eyes!" I exclaimed. The nurse walked over to check while pulling out her nurses cellphone "Dr. Rodriguez I need you in Jade Jones's room immediately, she's awake!"

My heart was racing at this point I couldn't believe this was happening right now. Dr. Rodriguez raced into her room immediately made his way to Jade's bed and began checking her out. Not even 3 minutes after Hermione, FP, Veronica and Jug raced in. "Oh my God baby girl!" Hermione exclaimed as she walked over to Jade's bedside with FP close behind. "There's my mijas pretty eyes I've been dying to see again." Hermione said as she took Jade's hand in hers.

Dr. Rodriguez was still checking her out at that point. And then he walked over to me "Ms. Topaz what happened this morning?"

I began telling him exactly what happened, "what goes on from here?" FP asked as he was still at Jade's side rubbing Hermione's back. Jug and Veronica on the other side and I was at Jade's feet. "We'll continue to monitor how she does for the next few hours. If all looks well we will attempt to shut down her breathing machine and see if she can breathe on her own. If she can we will be in great shape."

I couldn't believe this was happening my baby finally woke up, just when it seemed like we would all be faced with the decision to pull the plug she fought her way out of her coma. She truly was the strongest person I've ever met in my life. I prayed that the day would go well, and that once they turned the machines off she would breathe on her own. FP and Hermione requested that no one besides Sweet Pea and Fangs visited today which everyone understood why.

It was around 3:00pm when Dr. Rodriguez came into the room "everything is looking great so far, now I think it's time we shut off her breathing machine and see how she does. Then we'll have to take her breathing tube out, which won't be fun for her." We all nodded in agreement and understanding.

 "Hi Jade, sweetheart we're going to turn off this machine that's been breathing for you I'm going to need you to work to breathe on your own. It's going to have to be through your nose right now until we take out this tube. It's not going to feel great but it has to be done." Dr. Rodriguez said to her as he stood next to the machine. Jade squeezed his hand giving him the indication she understood.

This was it, this was going to be the ultimate test for her. "You got this mija" Hermione said rubbing Jade's hand. A few more nurses came in and we stood in the corner of the room. "Ok Jade the machine is going off now, you fight to breathe sweetheart we will get this tube out as fast as possible." Dr. Rodriguez said as he turned the machine off. We all held one another's hands watching intensely at Jade.

As the machine fully shut down it seemed like she was having a hard time breathing her face turned a little red. The nurses quickly began taking the breathing tube out of her mouth. As it was halfway out she began gagging, her face turned even redder. Once it was fully removed she gasped for air, and then just like that her normal skin tone took over her face. Her stomach was moving up and down at a normal pace.

"Amazing job Jade we're going to put this oxygen hose in your nose just to help you out a little bit but you are doing all the work right now." The nurses left but Dr. Rodriguez stood watching her we all walked to her side. "You can try talking too your voice will be a little rough just because of the tube being down there for so long." He said as he stood back a little. "Hi baby girl" FP said as he grabbed her hand. Jade licked her dry lips "h-hey d-dad" her voice was very rough.

"Hi mija" Hermione said as she kissed her head "h-hi m-mom." 

"Hey sis" Jughead said. "Hey juggy" Jade replied. "We missed you" Veronica said as she rubbed her leg "missed you too r-ronnie." Her voice was slowly coming back to normal. "Hey babe" I said as I walked to her side. Her eyebrows furrowed "who are you?" She asked, my heart sank "baby girl that's Toni your girlfriend you know her." FP replied.

"Yeah babe I'm your girlfriend" I said as tears formed in my eyes. She remembered everyone else but not me what was going on. Her eyebrows still furrowed together looking at me like she had no clue who I was. "Jade you know Toni come on" Jughead replied. Then Jade began laughing "I'm just playing I know who you are" I wanted to hit her for scaring me like that "not funny Jade" Hermione said as she lightly tapped her hand. "Ok, I'm sorry know it wasn't funny." Jade said apologizing. 

This is what we waited for, night and day for over a month. She was awake, breathing on her own, talking and even making jokes. In my eyes she was Wonder Woman came to life. My heart was full, for the first time in over a month I was finally complete again.