I was out of it for two whole fucking weeks?
My mind was exploding with so many questions but even just thinking about them hurt. A headache was ripping through my skull at that very moment and before I knew it I was moaning in pain.
“D-doc! Fuck, my head hurts!”
“Don’t move, it’ll only get worse!” Cassian instructed but even with his warning, I began to thrash and wiggle as the pain became too much for me to tolerate. The pain then began to surge across my whole body and for the first time since the accident I felt deep wounds crack and snap in pain.
I howled and Cassian didn’t waste time. He quickly got to work and with a press of a button he called in a staff of nurses to help him. It took quite a long while but after some time I finally managed to shut my eyes and relax as the pain receded. It never truly left but it was becoming tolerable at least.
Within another hour I was drugged and lapsing in and out of sleep once more. I didn’t know how long this continued but when I managed to gain consciousness, even for another moment, I saw Cherry sitting by the side of my bed just resting and watching.
By the time I woke up with a strong sense of awareness and stability Cherry was in a different set of clothes. I could only guess that it was a different day now. She was seated by the bed but she was busy scrolling on her phone.
“Cherry?” I called out to her.
She quickly put her phone down and rushed to get closer to my face, “Dylan! Oh my God, how do you feel?”
“Like a champ,” I tried to smile but it only hurt my neck. “Thank you.”
“For what?”
“For being here,” I told her. “I’m sorry for everything I told you before. I didn’t mean all that stuff.”
She hushed me and said, “Don’t say anything. You just need to focus on resting.”
“N-no, let me finish,” I insisted. “I said a lot of mean things to you. I should be burning in hell for the things I said. No one deserves to be treated like that.”
A tear flowed down from Cherry’s eye and she leaned in to give me a kiss on the cheek. She then caressed my face and said, “Dylan, I forgive you. I forgive you and I’ll always forgive you. I love you. I tried to live without you but I can’t so please… please let me in.”
I nodded back and asked, “Where do you want me to begin?”
“From the very beginning,” she answered. “I want to know everything there is about you. What was your life like growing up? What about past relationships and how you got so successful the way you are now? I want to know all of that and more.”
There was so much to tell.
My life had never been an easy one and I had dark secrets just as anyone had. Unlike most people, however, I wasn’t comfortable confronting those secrets. I wanted to bury them so deeply in my mind that even I’d forget the finer details. Now it was time to open those caskets up.
Yet for the first time since forever, I felt happy and relieved to do so.
“I will tell you everything later. Right now I have one important thing to tell you.”
“Okay. What is it?”
“Cherry,” I called her name.
“Yes?” she asked as she looked down at me with those gorgeous bright eyes of hers.
I finally summoned the courage to say what I needed to say. This was the moment, I knew it was.
“Cherry Vergara… I love you.”
11
Cherry
Dylan had multiple fractures on his face, neck, ribs and more. There were so many broken bones and other injuries.
Even when he did recover he was still facing jail time for driving while under the influ