The one that got away

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This is crazy. The last time I came into this room the machine were flatlined, he was dead. I had to be hallucinating.

 

“This can’t be real, the joke is over guys seriously.” my body trembled, tears running down my face.

Everyone looked at me like I was crazy. Was this real? Is he really alive? How could this be?

 

I slowly walked over to his bedside.

 

“Let’s give her some time to process everyone!”the door closed and  the room became silent.

“Jake!” a mix of emotions came over me. Everything was going to go back to normal.

It was like a record player in my head: “Maybe we shouldn’t be together!” The last thing I had  said to him.

I sat on the bed trying not to hurt his fragile body. Looking at him alive and so frail brought tears to my eyes.  He still had the neck brace and body cast. I couldn’t imagine a life without him. He was my everything, my reason for living.

I leaned down and placed a gentle but passionate kiss on his chapped lips. He pulled away and turned his head.

 

Had he remembered what had happened that night? I walked out of the room and shut the door.

 

Troy approached me wrapping his arms around me.

“Are you ok Kait?”,he whispered

“Can we go, please?”,I pulled away and went to the stairs.

 

I want to get out of this HELL-HOLE. It only brings pain and suffering to my family. The tears I am shedding are no longer tears of sadness,but tears of anger and regret.

 

When people say : “You never know what you’ve got till it’s gone!”

they really mean it. When I heard the machines flatline it felt like my whole world had fallen apart.

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