Chapter 11

• “Anytime,” he smiled back.
• “Any complications or any further tests she would need to run to make sure she is fully okay?” my father asked, concerned for my health.
• “We’ll do that by midnight as we need to check her vitals but the machines are being used in the ICU. But don’t worry, it will be free by that period and I would have permission to use the machine by then.”
• “Alright,” my mother muttered, standing on her feet as she looked at her watch on her wrist. “I guess I’ll see you in a few hours.”
• With both my parents giving me a kiss on my forehead, they exited the room, leaving me alone with Taevon.
• “How are you feeling?” he asked in concern with his hands inside his white jacket. “You’ll be discharged tomorrow. Do you feel ready to take on the world?”
• I didn’t feel ready to do anything. I wanted to be left alone. Nothing gave me the motivation I needed. I started to wish I had not woken up from the coma I had been in. It was cruel to wake up and find out that my life was a mess.
• “I don’t feel like taking on anything. I listened to every word you said but I don’t know how to start or where to begin.”
• “It’s not that hard, it’s like going to a new country and starting your life afresh. Trust me, you’ll be fine.”
• “But I don’t feel that way.”
• “That would be because you are stuck in your old life instead of embracing a new one.”
• I sighed. He was telling the truth. And the truth was no matter how much I would cuss at Marcus and blame him for all that was happening, I still missed him.
• It was not easy walking away from a relationship that had almost led to marriage. We had been engaged and we had almost tied the knot.
• Waking up to find out the love of my life had gotten married to my sister had to be the worst pain of all.
• “You need to embrace this new life you’ve got,” he reasoned.
• I nodded, “I’ll do that.”
• With a smile on his face, he exited the room while I laid in the room like a zombie come back to life.
• I didn’t know when the clock hit midnight, but I heard the door open up and the doctor enter with his assistants while checking my body with their scanner or whatever it was called.
• Within minutes of continuous whirring, the machine stopped and he was ready to go with his assistants.
• “You’re okay,” he said. “Now you can sleep better knowing that later in the day, you would be discharged and would be a free woman.”
• I gave a small nod before turning to sleep.
• “Lest I forget,” he said, going to my arm to remove the IV while hanging it around the iron stand. “You won’t be needing that anymore.”
• That was the last statement he made before he and his assistants were out of the room with their machine.
• I laid in bed staring at the ceiling for how things were going to be different and that was the thought that put me to sleep.
• ***
• I awoke to the bright rays of the sun which hammered through the windows.
• The harsh smell of the hospital cleaning supplies hit my nose as I scrunched up my nose in disgust while a cleaner flushed the toilet noisily, clanging her buckets around like she hated her job.
• “Will you take it easy?” my mum said in a polite yet stern manner. “My daughter is still asleep.”
• I turned to look at them through squinted eyes to see my parents seated on the couch while the cleaner looked at me with hatred in her eyes.
• “She looks pretty much awake to me,” the woman sighed, leaving the room as my parents cussed the woman out for being rude.
• “Good morning mum and dad,” I yawned just as Taevon walked into the room.
• “Hello there,” he said to me before checking my vitals. “How was your night?”
• “Horrible,” I joked with him abit.
• “And why is that?” he asked as a nurse came in with a document for him.
• “Would you be willing to sign this?” the nurse asked him as he pointed to my parents. “It’s not for me to sign but for them.”
• “Yes but the doctor in charge of her case would need to sign too,” she retorted to prove to him that she was not a newbie in that sense.
• “Fine,” he sighed as he got out his pen, signed his part before turning to my parents. “Would you both be willing to follow the nurse out and get the results for her test? The lab technicians don’t give it to doctors but parents.
• “I’m done with her health anyway so you guys can get her results while I work on her vitals and get her ready before you would be back.”
• “Alright,” my mum stood with my dad, leaving the room with the nurse while shutting the door behind them.
• “Did you have any pain last night?” he asked, putting his pen back in his pocket as I admired the way he worked on my arm while touching my head.
• “I’m okay. I didn’t feel any pain,” I responded. He was handsome and I could tell that he was a catch. Girls had to be swooning for him. He was one of those men who had very serious jobs but had their charms working for them.
• “You keep staring at me like that and I might have to wear a mask to hide my face from you seeing me blush,” he chuckled as he tapped my arm with a stick. “What are you thinking about?”
• I wasn’t one to hide my feelings or my words so I had to let it out.
• “Are you married?” I asked, getting him to halt his practice to give me a shocked stare. He had not seen that coming.
• “Excuse me?”