Chapter 27

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Aqua's POV

~THREE HOURS LATER~

I continue to watch the raindrops fall as my tears fall. I trace my finger on the window from the cloud to the ground. A lightning bolt shoots from the clouds to the ground. I trace Cameron's face on the window with frost. I look at the smile Cameron has. I look over at Jen and Josh. Josh's eyes flutter open and he looks around to take in his surroundings. He looks over at me.

"Hey, Little Archer," he says. He calls me that sometimes because of how much I like archery.

"Hey, Josh. Just wait a minute. I'm going to get the doctor," I say as I lightly kiss his cheek and leave the room. Daughters sometimes do that to their fathers, so don't get any ideas. I find the doctor and we go back to Jen and Josh's room. Suddenly, Jen wakes up. I don't fight the urge to wrap my arms around her and hug her. I never thought I would be able to hug Jen anytime soon.

"I missed you Jen," I say into her shoulder.

"I missed you too," says Jen.

"Where were you guys going before you got into the accident?" I ask.

"We were going grocery shopping," says Jen. I nod my head.

"Can you sing?" asks Josh. I look at them in shock. They want me to sing? In the hospital? I decided to sing the song Love Me by Katy Perry.

I lost myself in fear of losing you. I wish I didn't do. But I did. I lost my own, my own identity. Forgot that you picked me for me. But now, I don't negotiate with insecuritys. They always seem to get the best of me. I finally have to love myself the way I want you to love me.

No more second guessing. No, there's no more questioning. I'll be the one deciding who I'm gonna be. No concealing feelings or changing seasonally. I'm gonna love myself the way I want you to love me.

Sometimes, I wish my skin was a costume. Then I can just unzip and strip. But who I am is who I'm meant to be. And it's who you are in love, in love with. So now, I don't negotiate with insecuritys. They're gonna have to take a back seat. I know I have to love myself the way I want you to love me.

No more second guessing. No, there's no more questioning. I'll be the one deciding who I'm gonna be. No concealing feelings or changing seasonally. I'm gonna love myself the way I want you to love me.

No more standing in my own way. Let's get deeper. Let's get closer. No more standing in my own way. I want you to love me. No more standing in my own way. Let's get deeper. Let's get closer. No more standing in my own way. I want you to love me.

No more second guessing. No, there's no more questioning. I'll be the one deciding who I'm gonna be. No concealing my feelings or changing seasonally. I'm gonna love myself the way I want you to love me.

No more second guessing. No there's no more questioning. I'll be the one deciding who I'm gonna be. No concealing feelings. Or changing seasonally. I'm gonna love myself the way I want you to love me.

As soon as I finish the song, Jen and Josh look at me with mesmerized eyes.

"I thought it would be a good song because you guys adopted me for who I am and when I heard you got into the accident, I felt like I was dieing inside. I even had a nightmare about the accident," I say.

"But other than that, how was archery try outs?" asks Jen. I show them my memories of try outs from splitting the arrow in half to shooting moving targets to shooting more than one arrow at once to shooting while being blindfolded. We started talking about other stuff to keep our mind off the accident. Suddenly, I hear a gunshot.

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