35. Dead To Me

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Back and forth I paced on the hallway, waiting for the doctor to come out of the room. It has been hours Nick's brother and I waited for someone to inform us something but even the nurse that brought Nick here couldn't say anything. She said she doesn't really know about the condition at the moment.

"Adeline, are you okay?" I saw my brother walked towards me with his now wife, Aubrey. They already changed into casual clothes. Aren't they supposed to be in a flight to Bali right now?

"Couldn't you see, she looks like a total wreck right now!" My brother pointed at me. Aubrey just rolled her eyes at my brother. "You should go back to the hotel and get changed."

"No, I'll stay here until he wakes up." I stated. "Aren't you guys supposed to be on the plane right now?"

"Our flight got cancelled until tomorrow afternoon or should I say this afternoon." He said while looking at his watch. "We have a lot of time so... care to tell us what happened?"

"I fucked up." I muttered, trying to hold back my tears as the memories flooded back in. "I'm to oblivious to the fact that Nick has been the one who's always here for me since I moved to New York, I'm too deep in denial that I have a feeling for him, not anyone else."

My voice cracked at the end, making Aubrey pulled me into a hug. I cried again, thinking about the chances of Nick to survive. What if he won't wake up? He'll be okay right?

"Everything will be okay, he'll wake up soon." My brother said, trying to calm me down but only made it worse.

"What if he doesn't?" I looked at him with my teary eyes.

"Are you guys family members?" The voice of the doctor made us looked at where it came from.

"I'm his brother." Nick's brother said.

"Come with me." The doctor said, leading Nick's brother to the room.

We waited in silence until Nick's brother came out of the room. My anxiety start to rose up, I just want to throw up right now. Many assumptions went flying inside my head. I'll keep on blaming myself if something bad happened to him. I mean, something bad has happened to him just a few hours ago, but if I heard more bad news about him, I won't stop blaming myself.

I haven't told anyone back in New York because I don't want to make them worried. Nick's brother has called his mom and booked the earliest flight that available for this morning. She'll definitely blame me for this, I just knew it. Maybe I should start looking for new apartments and move out, because I know for sure she won't let me stay near Nick again.

Soon, I heard the door of the room opened. Nick's brother walked out of there with such a mixed expression face. "What did the doctor said?" I asked him.

"He's still in concussion, there are a few broken ribs and mild brain damage caused by the crash. There's a chance he'll survive." Nick's brother explained. Somehow I feel relieved but still worried at the same time. "Oh and I forgot to tell you that the police called, they found a footage showing how his car crashed and it wasn't because some irresponsible driving."

"I knew that, for sure because he hasn't drink any kind of alcoholic drink back at the wedding." I confessed. "But how? He's not that stupid to just randomly crashed someone else's car into a wall."

"I'm not done yet... they found something suspicious on the footage." He admitted. "They found a car speeding so fast like they're escaping from something right before Nick's car crashed."

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