I woke to blinding white lights and I thought I was dead. I tried to speak but something held me back. I tried to move but I couldn't see a thing but white. I closed my eyes and gave up on feeling or moving. I tried opening and closing my eyes till they held color. I looked down and saw the reason I couldn't talk. There was a tube down my throat. There was a doctor looking in a closet and I couldn't get her attention. I focused on moving yet I couldn't. I tried the trick and willed my arm to move and finally I felt movement. It was as if my body was waking from one of the deepest sleeps. I grabbed a cup and threw it at the doctor, it hit her in the butt. That surely would get her attention. I shook with laughter as she jumped and turned to me. She shrieked. I didn't think it was professional but I did hit her ass. She came over to me and started pulling at the tube removing it from me and I wanted to gag the whole time. She checked my vital signs and then spoke.
"James, you need to relax, you punctured your aorta and we repaired the damage. You need to be as careful as you can we had to preform open chest surgery to repair the damage, you may feel pain when the morphine wears off but then you should be able to move. Can you talk?" Of course I could talk I was normal. I tried but nothing came out I found hit hard to talk. I saw a person in the window.
"Liberty." Came in a hoarse weak whisper. It sounded like I was coming back from laryngitis. The doctor turned to the window.
"She has been coming by everyday to check for progress. There was another also, Mia I think her name was, those two created such a fight when they started yelling about you." I just imagined the fight between Manny and Paige, but with Liberty and Mia. I would hope Liberty won.
"If you don't mind me asking who won?" The doctor gave a short sweet laugh.
"The one standing out side your door I haven't seen the other since." It swelled me with pride that Liberty would still fight for me after the ass I was to her.
"Can I see her?" The doctor looked torn, it seemed as she didn't want me to be disturbed. She looked at me again and she sighed and left the room. The door opened and Liberty came in.
"Hey Libs, heard you won a fight. Did any one catch it on camera, so I can see a replay?" My voice was getting stronger with every word I spoke but it was dry and I no longer had a cup to get water from. But it didn't really matter once Liberty laughed. I missed hearing her laugh, especially at something I said. I just plain missed her.
"You would James Tiberius. You scare everyone to death thinking your going to die, especially me you were breathing so shallow when I got to you I thought I would lose you forever." I remembered Johnny and Drake at my car, then me making a sarcastic remark and the feeling of a knife in my back and how hard it was to breathe.
"Still care after the ass I was?" I had to know because if I didn't then my next statement would be worthless.
"Jt, you may anger me and I may be hurt that you don't have the same feelings but it doesn't mean I would stop me from loving you, I loved you for years before you kissed me remember?" I did remember running from a girl I once thought crazy but then getting to know her and seeing that she was almost perfect minus her controlling nature. She turned her back on me.
"I love you too." She whipped around so fast I thought I was going to be dizzy. Her eyes were alight, her mouth found an o shape out of shock and her hands shook. I just smiled at her, giving her time till the gears in her head clicked. She looked down at me and the next thing I knew was her soft warm lips on mine. The heart rate monitor spiked and she pulled away, the doctor came in.
"What is going on, James you need to calm down your heart shouldn't be working so hard." The doctor ordered her out, but the smiles still played on our lips. I let the Doctor take care of me and before I knew it she put something in my IV and I drifted off to sleep.