Try Me (Drunk In Love #1)

Chapter Twenty Nine

Voices. I hear jumbled words. Sometimes speaking to me. Sometimes speaking about me. I try to wake up but I can't.

In my dream, I see fire. Everywhere I look, there is fire. And amidst it, I see Abel lying. I run towards him but the fire brightens making me step back. I call out his name, trying to wake him up. But he doesn't respond.

Without thinking I jump, and feel the fire licking at my body. I scream out from pain and open my eyes. I find myself in an unfamiliar bed.

The rhythmic beeping of a monitor is the first thing to indicate I am in a hospital. Oxygen tickles in my nostrils and when I lift my hand there is the heartbeat counter on my finger.

Turning my head was the worst mistake I made. Now the whole room in whirling around me and my head wants to split open. I see the bell button next to me and press on it, alerting anyone of my consciousness.

Few minutes later a nurse arrives. She checks the monitors above me first, then takes my blood pressure. After a few questions about having pain anywhere, she informs me that my sister is waiting outside. I ask to send her in, thinking it's Tabitha. But turns out, somebody informed Alexia and she dropped everything to come see me.

Alexia, or Lexi is my older sister and like my mother. Not because I don't have one, I do, but she cares and loves me more than her.

As soon as she pulls the curtain and spots me, she hugs me hard, momentarily forgetting about all the drips in my hand.

"Ow, good to see you Lexi." I wince in pain. It hurts to breath too deeply maybe because I fell face first.

She wipes the tears from her cheeks then sits down.

"My baby, are you okay?" She asks while holding my hand. I nod my head fearing that if I speak, I won't be able to stop myself from crying.

She kisses my hand then looks up at me, her eyes showing concern. "When I got the call, my mind stopped working. I didn't know what to do. Thank god, you are okay."

I manage a small smile. My mind drifts to that worst night and everything that happened. I remember seeing Abel last before darkness took over me. Without thinking, I speak his name out loud. Then realise Lexi don't know him.

"I need to see Tabitha. There was, someone.. I need to know if he is okay.." My words are incoherent but she understands them because I see her smile.

"You need to know if Abel is okay?" That shocks me. How does she know him? I nod my head yes.

"He is fine. Great, actually. Was worried about you." She says nonchalantly. I try to grasp how she knows him or vice versa.

"I met him when I flew in. He was the only one here with you. And of course, he is The Weeknd so I knew who he was but not who he was to you. He told me what you did for him." Her voice gets quite at the last part. Of course he told her I walked in a burning place.

"I had too." I say quietly.
"I know. But if something happened to you.."
"I'm fine." I assure her. Just then a guy pulls the curtain back and ask Lexi to give us privacy.