Someone was itching for the next chapter, so here it is. I just want to apologise for the fact that the suffering is continuing. It gets more happy in the next chapter. Promise!
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Lots of love
Holly xxx
Chapter 3 – Sleeping Beauty
Weeks went past and still Alex did not wake up. Every day Gene went and sat with her in the hospital. Every day he held her hand and talked to her. Every day he wished for her to come back to him.
He was still staying in Alex's flat. It was at the same time very comforting and exquisitely painful. In the daytime he found it was good to surround himself with memories of her. But at night all he could see when he closed his eyes was the moment when he had pulled the trigger. It was in these moments that he wished more than ever that she was there, that he could hold her close and feel her heart beating next to his.
Then, whenever he walked onto the hospital ward he would feel a rush of pain that almost made him gasp. Seeing her lying there, lifeless and unmoving, was the worst punishment of all. His Bolly, so precious and beautiful, and he had put her there.
5 weeks had passed since the accident. As Gene walked into the hospital he prepared himself for what he was about to see. He knew the route to Alex's ward blindfolded he had walked it so often.
When he got there he went straight to Alex's bedside and leaned over to kiss her cheek. "Hello, beautiful" he murmured into her ear.
He took her hand as he sat down. Her pulse was quicker, he knew it so well he could tell instantly.
He looked up at her face. Nothing.
"Well, at least I know you're in there somewhere" he muttered.
The time slipped away almost imperceptibly. Perhaps it was because he now found it easier to find things to say.
When visiting hours were up he said goodbye.
Lightly kissing Alex's hand, he murmured "I'll be back tomorrow, Alex. I promise. You just keep sleeping."