All That Towers Above

Chapter 2

One year later

Andrian pov

"Come on, you can do it" my mom, dad , and my best friend Vince, encouraged.
I groaned as I took one step forward and released my hand from the walking stick so I can walk alone.
I breathed as I slowly took one step, then another. one at a time, I quietly chanted in my head.

I turned around and saw as my mom cleaned the tear from her face and my dad hugged her.

This was a relief, cause even I thought I wouldn't be able to walk again.
When I woke up from my coma, everything was okay except I couldn't move my legs.
Immediately I was transferred and had a leg surgery which took months before there was an improvement.
And now I can walk again.

"Mr and Mrs Anderson, Andrian is showing improvement, with frequent therapy, he will be able to walk perfectly again."
The doctor said writing on his pad and we all nodded.

"Thank you doctor, no amount of words can express how grateful we are for this" my dad, Eric Anderson said while patting the doctor's back and he nodded.

"No need to thank me, am just doing my job" he smiled.
"If you'll excuse me" he said and walked out of the room, and my dad followed.

I walked while my mom supported me back to the bed.
"Thanks Mom"
She smiled and nodded. "Are you guys hungry?" She asked both me and Vince but didn't wait for us to reply.

"Let me call Lola to prepare something okay?, I will be back" she said and hurriedly left the room.

Vince sighed and sat down in a chair beside me.
"Hey man, am so glad you could be able to join us the semester in college, don't worry you didn't miss much" he continued and I rolled my eyes, I wasn't thinking of college or anything right now.

"I don't care about college Vince" I said and stared at him, college is actually the least thing on my mind.

"What?, Don't ever say that or this time your dad will murder you" he whispered and shook his head.

I raised my eyebrow at him and sighed. Am not worried about my dad murdering me or anything, after everything that have happened I couldn't just move on like nothing happened.

"It's about Ava isn't it?"
I sighed, yes it was about Ava.
They insisted that she died but there didn't found her body, or many people were unidentified because of the amount of injuries, they were disfigured, so they did a mass burial for them, so probably she was one of them.
Ava died, she died because of me.

"What's done is done, we can't undo the past Andrian,it was meant to be, okay?, cause she won't have agreed to follow you, or she would have been right here with us"
"Ava death affected all us, but we have to move on"
Vince was also Ava's friend, we used to hang out together before but now there are nothing but memories.

"I can't move on, I killed her" I said as my voice broke down during the last sentence.
I can't leave with myself, I can't bring myself to move on.

Ava was my light, my life. With her everything felt so perfect, but now she's gone.

"You didn't, the plane crashed" he said emphasising every word to make me understand, like it's going to make me feel any better.
No amount of words can make me feel any better because I brought the idea of eloping, if it wasn't for me she wouldn't have be in the plane in the first place.

"But it was still my fault" I said slowly, I was tired of everything and wish I wouldn't have woken up after 2weeks of being in coma. I wouldn't have felt all this pain and would rather die than leave a life full of regret.

Vince touched my shoulder and continued "I cannot start imagining what your feeling right now but atleast look at your parents, after everything there are still beside you and they are still happy you're here. The least there want from you right now is to be their old Andrian, their son, not this depressed, helpless one here who wishes he could die"

I could never be the old Andrian, I could never be their old son.
Cause the old Andrian died with Ava.

"Move on for them, and for you" Vince finally said and waited for me to reply but I have nothing, I simply nodded.

The least I could do right now is follow their every wishes, go to college, take over the family company and marry Danny.
But to move on from Ava's death, that is something I don't think I can ever do.

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