Adrian and Amy had somehow fallen asleep outside Ben's room waiting for him to wake up. Leo had slept the night by Ben's bed, he was too scared to leave again. Adrian had fallen asleep on Amy's shoulder and both of them woke up with the worst backaches. But that was the last thing on their mind. Henry and Alice had joined the two of them. By the time they got some coffee and came back to their seats, Leo had come out to tell them that Ben had woken up and was calling for Adrian and Henry. Adrian quickly got out of her seat, flashing a quick smile at Amy, who smiled back reassuringly.
"Hey." Ben said from his bed.
"Hey, I'm so glad you're okay. I'm sorry." Adrian said, walking into the room with Henry right behind her.
"For last night?" Ben said trying to get up.
"Yeah, for the past year really. I'm really sorry Ben." Adrian said.
"It's okay. Hey Henry." Ben said.
"Hey, I'm really sorry Ben. I don't care how many times I have to say it, I really am sorry." Henry said, walking closer to Ben's bed.
"It's okay." Ben said.
"Really?" Adrian asked.
"Yeah. I'm so tired of being in pain all the time. I can't do anything about the physical pain but maybe I can do something about my mental pain. I'm done being angry with you guys. Whatever happened, happened. I really really wish it hadn't but it is what it is." Ben said.
"Thank you so much Ben, I'm really sorry. Really." Henry said.
Ben smiled and Henry and Adrian headed for the door, figuring they should let Ben rest for a while.
"Hey, can you guys send Amy here?" Ben asked from behind them.
"Sure." Adrian said, smiling at Ben and then leaving his room.
"He's calling you." Adrian said, walking up to Amy.
Amy sprung to her feet, she could wait to see Ben.
"Hey." Ben said smiling, his usual goofy smile, the smile Amy had always loved.
"Hey, I'm so glad you're okay." Amy said.
"I'm sorry about last night, Adrian shouldn't have said what she did." Ben said.
"You have nothing to be sorry about, Adrian was just upset. This is really overwhelming for her, for all of us really. She apologized last night and we're fine now." Amy said, sitting next to Ben.
"That's great. I was wondering, if you'd tell me a little more about us. You couldn't complete your story the other day and then I've just been busy, you know bleeding internally and stuff." Ben said, trying to make Amy laugh.
"Haha, yeah. Till where had we reached?" Amy asked, taking a seat next to Ben's bed.
"You'd finished telling me about our first date." Ben said, picking up his pudding from the table in front of him.
"Oh yeah. So things were great for us, we were really happy. There had been rumors that I'd slept with Ricky at band camp for a while but when I told you they weren't true, you didn't believe them." Amy said.
"Were the rumors true?" Ben asked, somehow knowing by instinct that they were.
"Yeah, they were. But I don't think you cared, or you tried not to care anyway. You took me for a picnic, one afternoon. You had this huge picnic basket, with wings that you knew I loved and we sat at this bench by the fountain in the park. I was eating a lot that time, which was probably how you figured out I was pregnant and you proposed to me, even though you knew it was Ricky's baby." Amy said.
" I proposed? As in to marry you?" Ben asked, almost spitting his pudding out.
"Yeah." Amy said, biting her lip.
"What did you say?" Ben asked.
"I wanted to marry you but my parents didn't want me to get married. My mom wanted me to get a job instead but no body wanted to hire a pregnant teenager, so when things got really hard,you and I eloped." Amy said.
"How?" Ben asked.
"We all got fake ids and got married at this 24 hour chapel called Albertson's." Amy said.
"We aren't still married, are we?" Ben asked.
"No, our marriage wasn't legal and our dads found out, so that kind of ended there." Amy said.
"I'm sorry." Ben said looking at Amy.
"For what?" Amy asked.
"For forgetting all this. It seems like we were happy together and if it's too hard for you tell me all this, then I completely understand." Ben said.
"None of this is your fault. It sucks that you don't remember but I'm sure you'll remember soon enough and I want to do everything I can to help you. And yeah,We really were happy." Amy said.
Neither of them said anything, both of them lost in their own thoughts. Ben tried his best to remember, remember how happy he was with Amy, how broken he would've been without her. But he just couldn't.
Amy tried to hold back the tears she knew were coming. It was hard letting Ben go and it was hard reliving every moment he was a great guy to her. She hadn't seen Ricky all day and somehow that didn't affect her. She somehow felt distant from Ricky because he just didn't seem to understand, how much all this was hurting Amy. But what was worse was that he didn't want to understand.