Chapter 7- Awakening
Angel's POV
I went to Liza's funeral. It was nothing special. It was just like any other funeral. A viewing of the body, a burial. Same old, same old. Her body had already looked as if it was dead when she was dying in the hospital so I didn't think it could get much worse. She was buried in the same funeral as Hikaru. The same funeral Kaoru would be buried in if he didn't wake up. The same funeral I would be buried in if Kaoru didn't awaken.
Yes. Suicide looked better and better every hour. But I would wait until there was no hope for the awakening of Kaoru Hitachiin. Although if I just killed myself, Hikaru and Kaoru would see each other and I would be able to be together.
After the funeral I began walking to the hospital. Missy still hadn't hired me a new limo driver. I had taken my heels off and walked the streets bare-footed. People stared at me with concerned looks. I suppose I looked like hell. Make-up smeared, hair a mess and a fairly new cut on my wrist.
Yes I had cut myself.
Just one little mark. Nothing more.
When I got to the hospital the nurses smiled at me. It wasn't that sort of sympathetic smile they usually gave me. It was a genuine happy smile. This confused me but I let it go, not wanting to get into a deep conversation over it. I stared at my feet the entire way to Kaoru's room, refusing to meet the eyes of any further people.
My feet stopped in the doorway and I looked up.
"K-K-" I stammered.
There, sitting up-right was Kaoru. His head down looking in the diary I had wrote in everyday he was unconscious.
"K-Kaoru…" I shuddered, my knees growing weak.
His head popped up and his eyes met mine. My heart kicked into high gear. Liza! Liza was right!
"Angelett." He whispered and a smile emerged over his face.
"Kaoru!" I yelled racing towards him.
I dove onto him, wrapping my arms around his body and inhaling his sweet scent. His arms wrapped around me and his face buried into my hair. And then, I was crying. Crying because, I had given up hope, considered killing myself, cut my wrist and crying be cause Kaoru had finally awoken. Kaoru! My Kaoru was back, he had returned to me when he could have stayed with his twin brother, Hikaru.
"You're back." I gasped.
"I'm back." He confirmed.
My hands clutched fistfuls of his hospital gown, closing any possible distance from our bodies.
"I missed you." I whispered.
"I know. Im sorry."
"Don't be. I know you were with him."
"Him?" he pressed.
"Your brother." I breathed.
He sighed, almost as if it was in relief. "I was." He said quietly.
I looked up and pressed my lips to his. His hand traveled up my back to cup my chin.
"I love you." He murmured against my lips before nipping at my lower lip.
I smiled. "I love you too."
(Small time skip)
I didn't go home that night. Kaoru had to stay at the hospital for the next three days and I couldn't bear to leave his side.
"I remember this." Kaoru said, pointing to a page in my diary.
We were sitting close together in his hospital bed.
"Really?" I asked, looking over the page I wrote shortly after meeting Liza.
"Yes. She passed away didn't she?"
"Yes." I breathed, a small wave of sadness brushing up against me but quickly fading away when I remembered that she would be with her father.
"That's too bad." He murmured.
"She'll visit me eventually." I murmured.
He turned to look me in the eyes. "Visit?" He asked. A confused look clouding his features.
"Yes, in my dream realm." I said. He was able to enter it once. Didn't he remember?
"Dream realm?"
I sighed, I guess he didn't remember, or maybe Hikaru told him it was something else.
"It's a big white abyss. And all the people I have seen die can visit me there whenever Im sleeping." I explained. "So Hikaru and Liza can visit me whenever they please, as long as Im sleeping."
He was quiet for a moment. His eyes still clouded with confusion.
"So you talked to Hikaru when was…" His voice trailed off.
"Yes." I whispered.
"Ha. I knew he was up to something. Every so often he would leave me in Summerland by myself and return with in the hour. He'd say he was speaking with a friend that was dear to me-" He said before I cut him off.
"Wait! Whats Summerland?" I murmured, captivated by the very word.
His faint smile widened. "It's the line between life and the afterlife. Its beautiful. It like nothing ive never seen before. You can be anywhere you want to be just by thinking of it."
"Wow." I gasped. "Amazing."
"It is. You can even replay events." His eyes looked distant. "Events you've never even seen."
My mind raced, thinking of all possible places Hikaru and Kaoru could have gone. Maybe the tropics or even a different planet of some sort. I suppose I was there at one point when I passed out from the smoke enveloping my lungs when my house caught on fire. Though I didn't remember it, could that be because I didn't have anyone there waiting for me? Or maybe it was because I was too much alive, too far away from death.
It wasn't long before I dozed off in Kaoru's arms.
My eyes popped open as I gasped. I looked around to see myself in the white once more. My dream realm. I smiled and rose to my feet, brushing off the back of my jeans.
"See? I told you he'd wake up." A shrill voice giggled.
"Liza!" I yelped spinning around.
A small figure stood before me. She had tan skin and big, bright, brown eyes. Her light brown hair hung down to her shoulders. She dawned a wide smile and wore an extravagant deep purple dress complete with a tiara on her head. I ran to her, falling on my knees to bring her to my chest and hug her.
"You were right." I whispered. "Have you been with your daddy?"
"Yes. I have. He says, 'hello'." She said.
"How's Kaoru?" A deep voice asked.
I looked up and reliced Liza to see Hikaru with a smug smile on his face.
"He's well." I said wiping a tear I hadn't realized was on my face, away.
"I showed him the fire." He said. "Told him to go back too."
"I see. Thank you Hikaru." I murmured.
Sorry this is so incredibly short but the next chapter will defiantly be longer. I promise. REVIEW!