This is going to be a short and quick story, if I continue it. I'm giving up two chapters and you'll see why when you read the other
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The red flowers beside the bed have faded and wilted, the air in the hospital room is crisp and sterile. It's empty in a sense, besides the comatose being lying under a blue hospital blanket. The room still holds an air of being empty.
No one comes to visit anymore. It's lonely…
Nurses come and go, checking vitals and changing sheets and sponge bathing her. The room is cleaned every other day, but holds a hefty layer of dust on all surfaces.
She hasn't changed, not really. The hair has faded back to its original coloring, there's a lack of her usual makeup. It's been months so her face has thinned out with the rest of her body from only being feed through an IV drip.
It's a normal afternoon spring day. The window across the room has been opened by a nurse that morning and a soft breezes filters into the room, disturbing the girl's brown mane.
Something in the room changes at one in the afternoon. The room's door opens and it's not time for the nurse's usual check- ins.
No one enters at first, he hesitates. The room comes alive when he finally does take that first half-step into the room. The last visitor had been sometime in December.
Robbie closes the room's door behind him and doesn't turn to face the girl in the bed for a while. He has no idea why he's there. He had skipped his last few classes just to come.
He walks to her bedside and stares at her form for a while, his face a concentrated frown. His hands twitch at his sides.
"Hi Jade…" He finally says and he bits his lip. He takes his eyes off her face to look around the room his eyes lingering on the welted flowers for a bit.
"I should have brought you flowers." He gently scratches his face. "I don't think you like flowers though…"
He looks back at her face and her closed eyes. He takes a seat in the chair near the bed.
"I feel really bad for not coming more." He tells her. "I think the last time I visited was eight months ago."
He frowns again and removes his glasses only to put them on a moment later. "It's spring…" He trails.
"Everyone is really busy… that's why they haven't visited. We're graduating!" He tries to say with a level of excitement. "We haven't forgotten you."
He falls quiet and an odd look comes over his face. He rubs the area between his eyes.
"Tori is doing well." He finally says, a moment later he laughs. "You don't care, right?"
He thinks he's right.
"Well, Cat and Andre are great too…" His eyes fall to his hands in his lap. He's quiet again then looks up quickly. "Oh yeah and so is Beck."
"…And Rex." He adds as an afterthought.
"They all have amazing opportunities coming to them after they graduate. Especially Beck and Tori, they were always the most talented in our group any way, right. The cheekbones and the hair after all, right… yeah."
He laughs forcefully.
"The group as a whole though…" He begins talking after another pause. "Is all screwed up…"
The breeze blowing through the window turns into a gust, which makes the clipboard with her file fall from its perch on the table by the bed. Robbie only glances at it.
"No one is happy, and your likely thinking it's because of you?" He asks and actually stares at her pale face for a while like he was expecting an answer. "It is but not in the way you think." He admits. "Well of course were upset about… what happened." He groans and presses his fist into his forehead. "I sound like an idiot…"
"What I mean is Beck and Tori aren't happy." He announces in a rush. "There I said it!"
He leans back into his chair and sighs. He removes his glasses and doesn't return them to his face.
"They are undeniably in love with each other. It's so frustrating…" His eyes fall on her again. "They're miserable because they can't be together because of you." He tells her honestly.
"They both feel as if it would be a betrayal to you." He bits his lip again. "I wouldn't even be telling you this if I thought you could hear me…" He mumbles. "If you can… don't hurt me when you wake up." He laughs nervously.
He gently sighs. "Why am I even telling you this? You can't really do anything about it."
The light outside vanishes and the room becomes chilly with the night air. Robbie closes the window. He hasn't really said anything for hours. He reads her files at least five times and throws away her wilted flowers. He mostly sits quietly by her bed though.
A nurse comes into the room a few minutes after he closes the window. She looks surprised to see him.
"Oh, I had no idea she had a visitor."
Robbie instantly stands. "I'm Robbie." He greets awkwardly.
The woman half-heartedly smiles and nods, "I see…"
"I'm one of her classmates…"
The woman nods again and enters further into the room and checks over IV bag. "That's wonderful but I'm afraid visiting hours are about over. You can come back tomorrow…"
"I will!" He announces with enthusiasm and grabs his book bag. "I'll see you tomorrow Jade." He leaves.
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