Chapter 2 illness
It was 4.00 AM and Gwen was woken up by the sound of Ben's stomach growling. The next thing she knew Ben jumped out of bed and ran to the bathroom, without even noticing Gwen was sleeping beside him. Gwen sat up in bed and said to her cousin in a concerned voice
"Ben? Are you alright?..." but Ben didn't answer. He just ran into the restroom, closed the door behind him and locked and slammed down the toilet seat and sat on it. The next thing Gwen knew Ben was having a bad case of diarrhea… then she heard vomiting sounds… (good thing there was a bucket in the bathroom in case he would start vomiting…
Inside the bathroom…
Ben was vomiting his stomach out… he was clutching the bucket and stuck his face in it as more stomach fluid literally exploded out his mouth and stomach… this vomiting his continued for what seemed like an excruciating eternity of five minutes… once done Ben put down the bucket on the floor and leant back on the toilet seat panting and breathing heavily and sighed… he managed to say to himself
"Aw man… somewhere, some lucky son of a bitch is having a heart attack… (Sigh…)" Ben rested his muscles on the toilet seat before he started to clean himself up after his bad diarrhea attack… he then took a quick shower and brushed his teeth well after all that vomiting… he then started to let out a series of excruciating sounding coughs… Gwen could hear the whole thing… she bit her bottom lip and had a very sad look on his her face… she feared the her cousin Ben was dying… and what made her feel even worse about it, was that she couldn't so anything to help… her magic couldn't help her in the case… and she felt terrible about it…
Ben flushed the toilet, washed his hands again, unlocked the door and opened it. Right after the door has been opened Gwen ran towards Ben and gave him a very sad and frightened hug and said to him as she started to cry…
"Oh Ben… please hang in there… please… please… just don't die on me… please…" she sobbed as she continued talking
"I'm sorry for all the bad things I said I take it all bbb…ahhck…" she now sobbed louder than ever…
Ben returned the hug and started to stroke Gwen's hair and said to her
"shh… don't sorry about it Gwen… I'll be fine… I just have a bad case of the flu that's all… I'll get better Gwen… I promise…" said Ben as he planted a kiss on his cousin hair…
"now come one let's try to get some slee…" said Ben but he couldn't finish the sentence as he started to cough like crazy as Gwen hurried to the kitchen sink and filled up a glass of water as Ben continued to cough but then stopped.
"Hang in there Ben… I'm brining you some wa… BEN!" cried Ben as she dropped the glass of water which shattered to a million pieces on the floor as she hurried towards her cousin who was lying motionless on the cold RV floor… she flipped him on his back and saw blood around his mouth and on his hand… he was coughing blood. Which was NOT a good sign… she hurried to wake up her grandfather. She shook him wildly.
"GRANDPA! Grandpa! We gotta get Ben to hospital now! he's coughing blood and he had a bad vomiting and diarrhea attack! We have to get him to a nearby hospital right now!!!!" said Gwen. The distress was more than evident in her voice. As soon as Max heard all that, he jumped out of bed, ran towards the front of the RV and raced to the nearby hospital. Which was a ten minute drive away… the only problem was, Max couldn't use to turbo system of the RV because it too dangerous… it was the middle of the night, and there weren't enough straight roads… they would have to drive like a normal vehicle only beyond the speed limit… with a rumble the RV engine flashed to life and Max raced to the nearby hospital at 80 miles per hour… Gwen in the meantime, picked up Ben and laid him on the bottom bunk bed where he slept a mere half hour earlier and whispered to him
'Ben… are you still with me?"
Ben didn't answer
"Ben! Answer me! Please! Can you hear me?..." said Gwen with a slight yell as she started to yell…
"BEN! Say something! Anything! Please… say something Ben…" said Gwen as she started to cry while shaking Ben's body… she checked for a pulse… she could detect one but barely… she then felt a very cold shiver go down her spine… she couldn't believe this was actually happening… her cousin's condition has gone critical… if not critical it was bad enough for him to be rushed to the hospital… which was not a good sign… Ben's face was covered with a very cold sweat and he was awfully pale… his eyes began to creak open… he whispered
"Gwen…"
"Yes Ben?..." Said Gwen, giving her cousin all her attention…
"Gwen…" repeated Ben.
"I'm here Ben… I'm here with you…" said Gwen with tears in her eyes… Ben opened his mouth to speak for the last time… his lips were trembling…
"Gwen… I just wanted to apologize for all the bad things I said and did to you… I take it all back…" whispered Ben with a cough…
"No Ben… its okay… I'm the one who should be sory…"
Ben continued his goodbye…
"I just wanted to thank you, Gwen; for all the help and support you gave over the past few days… I really appreciate it…" said Ben while holding Gwen's hand and gave it a little shake before he continued…
"I just wanted to say, I will always treasure all the times we spent together and I will always cherish our relationship and you will always have a special and warm place in the very center of my heart… I just wanted to say that… I… I love you Gwen… I'm sorry I'm saying this only now and not before when we could have had some time (cough) I love you Gwen…"
"I love you too Ben! I love you too! Really! And I know you mean more than cousin love… I feel the exact same thing… but please Ben… PLEASE… I'M BEGNING YOU… just try to hand in there for a little bit longer… please… we are almost at the hospital…" said Gwen was great stress…
"I'm sorry Gwen…" said Ben as end grew near… Gwen decided to do one last thing with her cousin before he died…. She wanted to kiss him… with eyes soaked with tears, she leant towards him and planted a light passionate kiss on his lips, which he retuned… their mouths separated after a few seconds as Gwen got up from her dying cousin as he said his last words…
"thanks Gwen… for everything… I love you… goodbye…" said Ben as he sobbed he last few words as his body was laying limp on the bed as Gwen started to cry uncontrollably…
"No! Ben! Please! Please, come back to me!..." cried Gwen as she began to sob loudly as the RV stopped with a screech and they arrived at the hospital and Max ran towards her and said
"We're here! We have to hurry! We might still have a chance to save him!..."
Gwen nodded as she helped her grandfather pick Ben's body and carried him quickly out of the RV, without even closing the door. Max kicked the hospital door open and yelled towards the nurse's desk on the other side of room.
"Please! Help us! This is an emergency… he has a bad case of the swine flu and doesn't have a pulse! Help us! Please…" two doctors who were standing nearby ran towards him and Gwen, took Ben's body, laid him on a stretcher and got ready to wheel him to the emergency room…
'We will do what we can… wait here…" said one of the doctors hurriedly, as he wheeled Ben into the emergency room which was nearby and disappeared behind the door…
Max put his arms around Gwen's shoulder as they both sat down on the bench near the entrance door…
"We can't do anything for him now Gwen… it's in G-d's hands now…"
Gwen nodded with a sniff… inside, she prayed to G-d like she never prayed before that her cousin is gonna be alright…
Hours pass…
It was already beginning to get bright outside, when the doctor stepped out of the emergency room and walked towards Gwen and her grandfather…
"Is he… goona be alright doctor?..." asked Gwen hesitatingly…
The doctor sighed sadly and put his right hand on her shoulder…
"I'm sorry, Miss, we tried everything we can… but I'm afraid we could not bring your boyfriend back… I'm terribly sorry… there's nothing more i could do…"
Gwen eyes widened up in shock as she started to cry as he grandfather gave her a comforting hug as she continued to cry uncontrollably…
Ben has died… things are never gonna be he same without him… especially for Gwen… she felt like taking the elevator to the top floor of the hospital and jumping out the window and plummet down the ground out of a height of 20 floors… that way she could be with her cousin… for all eternity… that way she would be happy… she couldn't bear to live without her cousin she fell in love with… the cousin she fell in love of whom she confessed to, when it was too late… and that was one of the things that made her feel a hundred times worse about it… the best thing that came out of it was that she had a chance to kiss him… and she will cherish that memory for the rest of her life… even as ninety year old women after marring someone else who she would have fallen in love with but has also passed away, she would still cherish that wonderful memory she would never forget… Gwen continued to cry as stood in the emergency room looking at her now dead cousin… she then ran towards him and hugged him widely as she sobbed louder than ever…
"ohohhh… Ben… why did you have to leave me? Why?... why?!... WHHHY???!!" she cried loudly…
"I can't live without you Ben… I love you too much… if you're really gone; please… take me with you… pleahhse…." She sobbed once again… as she hugged his body tightly and planted one last kiss on his lips and said to him
"I love you Ben… I will never forget you… I will always cherish our relationship and our happy memories… especially this one…" sobbed Gwen as she laid a French loving kiss on his lips, only without being kissed back… once she separated her face from his she gave him one last hug and whispered
"Goodbye Ben…" and laid on last kiss on his forehead and got up to leave as she whipped off the tears from her eyes as she began to walk out of the emergency room when she heard something… she turned around to look at Ben… she then heard it again… it was a groan… and it was coming from Ben! He was alive! Gwen ran towards her cousin and was standing right next to him as his eyes began to flinch as they slowly began to creak open…
"Gwen…" he smiled…
"BEHHENNN!!!" cried Gwen as she hugged her now alive cousin… Gwen was crying so hard she could barely talk… she could barely even breathe…
"Thank G-d you're alright Ben! I was so worried… I thought you were gone forever…"
Ben let out a touched smile, closed his eyes and smiled happily and said…
"Don't worry Gwen… I'm not going anywhere… now that you saved my life and my fever is down, I'll be feeling better in no time!... all thanks to you Gwen…" said Ben as he smiled and planted a kiss on her hair…
"But how did I save you? I didn't do anything?..." said Gwen, still with much emotion…
"You saved me with all those beautiful words you said… I heard them while I felt like I was on my way somewhere else… I heard those beautiful touching words of yours… and I couldn't just let you go… I decided to return to my body, so I can spend the rest of my life with you Gwen…"
Gwen sighed happily as she deepened into the hug and said:
"Thanks Ben… I'm so happy to hear you say that…"
Ben nodded as he planted a kiss on his cousin's hair as they separated from their hug as they looked each other in the eyes as their lips grew closer to each other, until they met into a very, warm, wet, loving passionate and hyper passionate kiss, which shortly afterwards became a French kiss… it very soon became a very serious make out session… as if they had exploding energy and urge to kiss each other within them, that has been trapped in there, for so long that it was like they almost got a heart attack from the liveliness and the fieriness of their kiss… they continued to kiss rapidly for the next two minutes until their lips finally disconnected as they gasped for air and hugged each other again and Gwen said…
I love you Ben… I'm so glad you're okay again… now we can be together forever…" she finished with a very happy sigh and sob
"we will be Gwen… we will be… I promise…" said Ben as he planted a kiss on her hair again as he stroked her hair and the back of her head and neck, as she rested her head on his shoulder and planted a soft kiss on it, as they began to slow dance while sitting down, hugging each other…
Ben's body drifted to the right, then to the left forward and diagonal and in circles, while hugging his cousin, as her body joined the rhythm as they kissed each other on the cheek every once in a while, as they continued to slow dance as Ben whispered in Gwen's ear
"I love you… so much…"
I love you too Ben… so much… I will always love you… no matter what…" replied Gwen with a happy sigh and a smile as a tear of happiness dripped down her eye…
"I love you too Gwen… I love you too…" replied her new boyfriend who happened to be her cousin as he planted another kiss on her hair again as she did the same with his cheek as they continued to drift from side to side in their little dance they enjoyed so much… and they always will…
To be continued…
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