What will Kim be like when she wakes up, if she wakes up?

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CHAPTER SEVEN

JACK'S POV

I woke up to my hand moving slightly, but wasn't sure where I was for about a second. Then it all came flashing back to me. All of the terror and pain came back. I lifted my head and looked at the girl that I loved lying in the hospital bed. Grace was asleep on the couch with Jerry beside her. I felt my hand move again, but wait…it wasn't my hand, it was Kim's!

"Grace, wake up!" I said urgently.

"What is it, Jack?" Grace asked as she stretched on the couch.

"Kim just moved her fingers. Can you go get the nurse?" I asked her.

"Of course, I will be right back." She ran out of the room and came back just a moment later with the nurse right behind her.

"Let me get some readings and see what I can find out real quick, guys. She is not suppose to be waking up until later today." The nurse said as she pushed past us.

She looked at all the machines, listened to Kim's heart, took her blood pressure, ran a metal spile across Kim's arm and foot, then looked at us in disbelief. "I'm sorry. I don't see anything that has changed. Sometimes we just want to believe things and other times is it just a reflex of the patient's muscles. We will be backing her off her medication after the doctors see her this morning as long as everything is ok." She turned and wrote some notes down on Kim's chart and then walked back out of the room.

"Grace, I know what I saw and felt. She moved her fingers on my hand. I was holding her hand just like this and…"just then Kim's fingers moved in my hand and Grace saw it too. "Kim, I'm here baby! I love you so much!" Her fingers moved again as I spoke.

The nurse came back in to tell us something and saw Kim's fingers dance across my hand. "What in the world? I need to go call the doctor right now. She shouldn't be doing that with the amount of medication that she is on right now." She rushed out of the room.

"Kim, we love you. We have been here all night. Keep fighting, Kim." Grace said as she held Kim's other hand.

"The doctor will be here in just a few minutes and he was coming to check on Kimberly first. He will let you know what is going on." She said to us and turned back out of the room.

Within a few minutes, the doctor was there. He asked us to leave the room so that he could examine her and then he would let us know how Kim was doing. We walked out to waiting room and found everyone just starting to wake up as well.

My mom and Carly came in with a bag for me, "Jack, here are some clothes and necessities. The nurse said there is a shower that you guys can use also. How did the night go?"

"Well, we got to go in and see her. A couple of us slept in there with her. She moved her fingers in my hand just a minute ago, Mom." I told my mom with excitement.

"That is great, Jack. Has the doctor been in yet?" She asked.

"He is in there now. That's why we had to come out here." I answered her.

"Well, Carly and I got breakfast for all of you so come on over here and eat while it is hot." Mom told us all.

She had picked up a ton of pancakes, bacon, sausage, coffee, and orange juice. We all dug in and waited for the doctor to come in. He came in the room while we were eating and said, "That smells really good. I'm glad you are all remembering to eat. So let's talk about Kimberly. I don't know how, but she is showing signs of waking up even though we have her heavily medicated. I have never had anyone show these signs when we have medicated them like this and they have been through surgery like Kimberly has been. She must have one heck of reason to be fighting so hard. Her vitals are doing well so we are going to back her down on the medication so that her body will stop working so hard to wake up and see what happens. I will check back in with her in a few hours. You can go in with her as soon as you want to." The doctor told us.

"Thank you again, doctor." Several of us said at the same time. He left the room and went on with his rounds.

"I'm going to go back in there," I said but my mom stopped me.

"Jack, go take a quick shower and change and then you can go back in there. They are just now lowering her meds so she won't wake up for awhile." Mom begged.

"I don't…"

"Jack, go on. I will go sit with her and then when you are done, I will get cleaned up and changed." Grace said.

I could tell they were ganging up on me so I grabbed my bag and headed to take a shower. I took the quickest shower that I could and got dressed. I ran back to the waiting room and dropped off my bag.

"There, you feel better now, don't you?" My mom asked.

"Yes, Mom. I'm going to go see Kim now. Thank you" I leaned over and kissed her on the cheek.

I walked out of the waiting room and went into Kim's room. I went in to find all of the girls in there with her. They were talking to each other and her even though she wasn't replying.

"Kim, Eddie asked me out. You were so right about us. You have to hurry up and get better so we can all go on a quadruple date." Kelsey said with a slight giggle.

"Quadruple date?" Grace asked.

"Yes, Milton asked me to be his girlfriend. Soooo, we are all couples now. It is so great, but will be perfect once you wake up, Kim. We need you more than you know." Julie answered.

"Wow, girls that is great." I told them. "It is about time those guys stepped up. We can all go out together as soon as my girl gets out of this place." I came around the hospital bed and kissed Kim's cheek.

"Are my parents here yet, Jack?" Grace asked with a big smile across her face.

"No, not yet. What's up?" I asked her

"Well, Kim is fighting to get better harder than anyone the doctor has ever known and she moved her hand while we were talking to her. I just feel like things are finally going to start turning around for her. It makes me really happy." Grace answered.

"Sound like great reasons to smile, Grace. I can't wait to see her open those beautiful hazel eyes and smile back at all of us." I told her as I walked up to Kim and gently picked up her hand in mine.

"Well, we are going to go and freshen up real quick and give you guys some time alone." Julie said as she patted me on the shoulder and they turned to go out of the door.

I sat there holding Kim's hand for hours until the doctor came back in and said he needed to examine her again. I was walking toward the waiting room and heard the commotion and yelling before I even walked in the door. I rushed into the waiting room and the scene I walked into was all because Samantha and Sharon were here and arguing with Gwen and Grace. I didn't see the kids anywhere, but Julie and Kelsey were gone too so I hope they have them far away from here so they don't hear this arguing.

"You are not taking them anywhere!" Grace shouted.

"I am their mother, you little brat! I have every right to take them home with me!" Samantha shouted back.

"Don't talk to my daughter like that. Kim is the one who has been raising the kids. You don't even know where they are most of the time. Why don't you go sleep off all of the drinking you were doing? We are not letting you take these kids anywhere." Gwen stated.

"You can't take those kids away from their mother. She gave them life and they belong with family at a time like this. I will be there to help her take care of them so just bring them in here and we will go." Sharon said.

"You didn't take care of Kim when she needed you, did you? So why should we trust you to take care of them?" Grace asked.

"Ok, listen. We are not going to let anyone take the kids anywhere. I am not trying to be mean, but they are scared and want to be with Kim. Now, they can tell you that themselves or you can just take my word for it and let them be here with Kim and all of us. Once Kim wakes up, we can all figure this out together." I walked forward and said to Samantha and Sharon.

"Listen, I don't know who you think you are, but I am a great mom! My kids love me and would want to be with me while Kim is getting better." Samantha said while pointing her finger in my face.

My mom stood up, but I put my hand out in front of her. I turned toward Samantha and pointed my finger back at her, "I am the one who saved Kim from the monster you let beat her day after day. I came in to him forcing himself on her and we are all her waiting to see if Kim wakes up because neither one of you did your jobs and took care of her. No one is going to let you have the kids so that they end up hurt too."

Samantha looked at me and then said, "I never let anyone do anything to hurt Kim. She shouldn't of teased David so much. He wasn't interested in her, but when she walks around in practically nothing and flirts with him, she confused him and it made him angry."

"You are not seriously blaming Kim for all of this, are you?" Grace yelled out furiously.

"Well, my sister is right. Girls these days wear skimpy clothes and expect guys to be able to control themselves. David was happy with my sister and Kim was just jealous. That's why she told me those horrible things about him. We love her and want to get her help, but she needs to stop lying about David so that this family can be whole again." Sharon said actually believing what she was saying.

Shock was thrown across everyone's faces. We actually couldn't believe what we were hearing. I didn't know if any of us was going to be able to voice our argument because we were speechless and frozen.

"You see where we are, right? We are at the hospital and the girl you claim to love and take care of is in the other room fighting for her life. She can't make that up. Do you understand that?" My mom was up in Sharon's face. "I think the two of you better go. Right now!"

Just then Milton's mom walked in and said, "I am so glad that you are both here. With all of the information that I have been able to gather at this time, I had a restraining order drawn up this morning and the judge signed off on it just about a half hour ago. You, Sharon, and David and not allowed within 200 ft of Kim or the kids so you need to leave the hospital now!"

"What! How can you do that? I am their mother!" Samantha exclaimed.

"Samantha, we all know that you are not their mother! You may have given birth to them, but you never cared for them. You need to go or I will call the police!" she replied.

With that, Samantha and Sharon looked at each other and headed for the door. "This is not over!" Sharon shouted as they headed out of the room.

"Where are the kids?" I asked Grace.

"Julie and Kelsey have them in the café. They said to text them when they could bring them back." She answered and was texting them now.

"Ok. I am glad that they didn't have to deal with all of that." I replied. "They are scared enough as it is."

I turned around to the door opening and turned just in time to catch Kassie in mid air. "Jackie, I missed you wast night. How is Kimmy? Can we see her yet?"

"Not yet, sweetie. Soon, ok?" I told her.

"Ok, Jackie. I wove you!" She gave me a big hug and I felt a few tears on my shirt. I looked at her and wiped her face.

"I love you, too!" I told her. "Kim, is working really hard so that she can see you soon. She loves you guys more than anything."

"Jack, we need to see her. Please." Keith begged me while hugging my leg.

"We have to wait until the doctor tells us that we can, buddy. I will talk to him about it, ok?" I tried to explain.

"Ok, Jack. Just hurry please!" Keith said.

"I will, little man. How are you, Kyle?" I leaned down and put out my fist for him to bump it.

Kyle gave me a fist bump and said, "Jack, we will all be ok when Kimmy is ok. We need to go talk to her."

"Ok, guys. I'll go talk to the doctor right now." I told him.

I walked out of the waiting room just in time to meet the doctor coming out of Kim's room. "How is she doing, doctor? Her little brothers and sister would like to go in and see her, but I know that isn't a good idea yet." I asked him.

"We will have to see how Kimberly does when she wakes up. They can't go in yet, but we can reevaluate that in a few hours. Everything is pretty stable right now so we are backing her medication down a bit more. I will be back in a few hours to check on her." He started heading back down the hall to see his other patients.

I walked back into the waiting room. "The doctor just told me that Kim is doing well and they are backing down her medications some more. We have to wait until she wakes up and the doctor checks her out again before you guys can go in though because of hospital rules. I'm going to get back in there. Are you going to finish cleaning up and come in a bit, Grace?"

"Yeah, I will be in just give me a few minutes." She grabbed her stuff. The other girls went with her and they all got freshened up and I walked into Kim's room.

I sat down in the chair beside her bed and held her hand. "I love you, Kim. The doctors aren't going to let the kids come in to see you until you open those gorgeous eyes and show them that you are doing ok. So whenever you are ready to open them, we are all here waiting as patiently as we can." I leaned forward and kissed her hand and her fingers wrapped around my hand. I looked up and her eyes were still closed, but that was ok because she was working to come back to us so I will wait.

The door opened and the girls came in. The sat on the couch and Grace grabbed Kim's other hand. "Kim, please open your eyes. We are trying to be patient, but it is hard." She told her.

"I told her that myself about 10 minutes ago, Grace. I keep telling her how badly we want to see her beautiful eyes open." I lean forward again and kiss her hand and let my lips linger on her hand. Her hand turns and brushes my cheek. I look up and her eyes are fluttering. They open and she looks around the room. Her eyes settle on Grace. She tries to talk, but the tube in her throat makes that impossible.

"Kim, stay still. I'm getting the nurse and hopefully they can get that thing out now." Grace said while running out of the room.

The nurse came in with the doctor and they told Kim they were going to remove the breathing tube. They explained what they were going to do and that her throat would be sore. He told her that she would be able to talk, but it would be best to whisper while everything is healing. They pulled the tube out and put her on oxygen just on her nose. The nurse gave her some water and then asked her how she felt.

At that point, I heard the most beautiful sound I had heard in two days. "I'm ok. It is a bit sore, but I'm ok." Kim told the nurse in a hushed voice.

The nurse turned to all of us with a smile on her face, "Don't over excite her, ok?"

We all nodded our heads and walked toward Kim. She looked around and smiled and then her face looked very confused and then fear spread across her face.

"Kim, we have been so worried about you. We have all been here waiting for you to wake up. The kids are fine. They stayed at my house last night and are in the waiting room with my parents and the guys now. They really just want to see you," with that the fear on her face went away, but the confusion was still there. "We have all been taking turns staying with you. Although, Jack here hasn't left your side." Grace said and the look of confusion in Kim's face intensified.

"Kim, are you ok?" I asked.

She looked at me and didn't say anything. She just stared and stared and then finally asked, "Jack?"

"Kim, what is it?" Grace asked.

"I'm sorry, but I don't know who he is. I get that I should because you are all acting like I should, but I just don't." With those few words, I felt my heart stop.

"Kim, what do you mean you don't know Jack?" Grace asked in a panicked voice. "Let me go get the nurse back in here." Grace said running out of the room.

The other girls looked like they didn't know what to say. I walked forward and sat in the chair beside Kim's bed. "Is it ok if I sit here?" I asked her.

"Yes," she answered hesitantly.

I looked at her and all I could think about was that I was not going to lose her like this. That monster, David, was not taking her away from me. I will do whatever I have to. While I was lost in my thoughts, the nurse came back in and started asking Kim questions. She did a neurological exam and took a lot of notes. "It appears that you have lost your memories from the last few days. This can be a very temporary problem, but I am sure that the neurologist will come in and do a full exam and talk to you about everything." She exited the room and went to the nurses' station to call the doctors.

I looked at the girls and they all followed after her to give us a moment alone. I looked back at Kim and tried to decide what to say to her, but she beat me to it. "So I guess you must really be something special for all of my friends to just leave me alone in this room with you. How long have we known each other, Jack?"

I laughed just a bit and shot my smirk at her, "Well the even more amazing thing is that we just met Friday on the first day of school. Oh and it is Sunday now so that makes 3 days that we have known each other."

She giggled a bit, but then I saw the pain in her eyes. "Are you ok, Kim?" I asked with pure stress in my voice.

"Yeah, I guess I just shouldn't laugh yet." She smiled at me and I got lost in her eyes again.

I reached up and grabbed her hand. I felt electricity run through my body and even though she wasn't sure who I was, I knew she could feel it too. She looked at me and stared deeply into my eyes. "I don't know what it is about you, Jack, but I definitely feel drawn to you." She told me with that sweet smile.

I leaned in closer to her and told her, "Kim, that's the way I feel about you, too. You are the first girl that I have ever felt this way about." I knew it was not the right time, but I had to try. I love her and she needs to remember. I leaned even further forward. I hesitated for just a moment as I looked in her eyes and then I gently pressed my lips against hers.