hello everyone,

i finished my exams and officially on my summer vacation which means that i'll update more in sha'allah

this chapter is just a filler so it's a short one

hope you enjoy it xoxo

Darren:-

"PRINCESS! PRINCESS" I screamed through the phone but she didn't reply.

"What is the number of her room?" I asked Stephen who was looking worried.

"240, fourth floor." he said, "what happened?" he asked after me but I was already in the elevator. A million thoughts came across my head and I truly wished that none of them would be true.

the elevator stopped at the fourth floor, I stepped out and started searching for her room like crazy until I saw an opened door, I looked at the number of the room next to it '241'.

I ran into the room, I found her laying on the ground motionless, and there was blood all over her right side.

"Princess, answer me. Baby, please wake up." I crouched next to her. She was still breathing but her breath was weak.

"This can't be good." I dialed 911 from my phone.

"Hello, my friend got attacked at Hollywood hotel." I said trying to control my voice.

"Is the attacker still there?" the man asked.

"I don't know if he's still in the hotel or not. We are in the hotel room number 242, fourth floor. Please be quick, she's bleeding and her breath is weak." I hung up and looked back at princess.

"Be strong baby girl, you can't leave me now, not before I prove to you that I truly love you. I know you said you don't love me back but I know that you would love me eventually. Don't leave now, you still have so much to achieve, you still have your company and your family. Fight the need to slip away from this life, fight for a little more, the help is on the way." I kept whispering encouraging words to her hoping that she was able to hear me, I didn't know what to do. The paramedics came and the police to investigate about the attack. The paramedics took her to the ambulance. Before we made it to the ambulance, I saw a police officer talking to Stephen, I was sure that the man knew something, maybe he was behind the attack or maybe not for me everyone was questionable. I got into the ambulance with her and held her hand all the way to the hospital.

When we arrived, everything went on so quick. They took her to the ER and I was left alone with my thoughts.

"Excuse me sir, are you related to the patient?" a nurse came to me.

"She is my girlfriend." I lied because if I didn't say so, they might not give me any information about her, "how is she now?" I asked.

"She is in the ER, that's all I know." she said apologetically, I nodded in understanding.

"Does she have any relatives that we should call?" the nurse asked.

"No, she doesn't have. She is a foreigner. I'm all that she have here." I said looking down. Should I call Adam? No, I shouldn't, I know that princess wouldn't want him to know.

"Okay, we need some information about her." the nurse said, I nodded and followed her to the reception desk.

While I was there, my phone kept ringing in my pocket. I was three hours late to the set so I guessed that it was Ryan the one who calling.

"Hello."

"Darren, where are you? And why you don't answer your phone?" he was nearly screaming in the phone.

"Sorry, I won't be able to come today." I said apologetically.

"Are you kidding? You know that our schedule is tight and it was hard to bring the old cast again. Darren, what is wrong with you? This is Hollywood, time is money."

"Yeah, I know all that, but something urgent happened so I can no longer come."

"If you aren't in the hospital fighting death, then it's not urgent enough."

"Actually, I am in the hospital." I released a bitter chuckle, "but it's not me the one who fight death, my friend is."

"I'm sorry for bitching. What did happen?" his tone softened.

"She was attacked, when we were together this morning."

"What? How did it happened? How is she now?" Ryan swerved me with questions.

"I don't how did it happened, I was waiting for her in the lobby when the attacker went to her hotel room. I found her on the ground unconscious after she called me for help, I took her to the hospital and the rest is history, she's still in ER and no one is telling me anything." I said frustrated and worried.

"Okay, we will shoot scenes that you aren't in, but" he stopped "if you had a chance to come. Please do it, you know that Dianna is busy and it would be hard to reschedule her scenes." I rolled my eyes because I totally saw it coming.

"I can't promise you anything."

"I know, I hope your friend be fine."

"Thank you."

"Bye"

"Bye"

I got back to the waiting room, praying for princess to be okay but her motionless figure kept popping up in my head. After another hour, finally a doctor came out of the operation room. He was in his fifties and he looked tired

"Hey, doctor. How is she?" I stopped him from walking away.

"Are you family to her?" he asked.

"I'm her boyfriend." I continued with the lie, but it felt right.

"She lost a lot of blood because of the deep cut in her right arm; the sharp object had hit a blood-vessel, a cut in her bottom lip and her head, bruises in her face and stomach. She don't have any broken bones but her left leg is fractured, we are a little worried about her head, but first we need her to wake up." the doctor explained her condition. If I could find whoever done this to her, I wouldn't leave a good bone in him.

"Can I see her?" I asked.

"Yeah, sure. She is in the room 26, she would be unconscious because of the operation, but hopefully she will wake up from 10 to 15 minutes. Then we will have to do some tests to see if everything is fine."

"Thank you doctor." I went to her room and I found a nurse was there.

"Is she awake yet?" I asked her.

" no, but she would be soon." she said smiling, what the doctor said earlier made me worry more, what if there were something seriously wrong with her.

"Don't worry your head so much, she will be okay. She looks like a warrior that wouldn't give up so easily." the nurse said with a reassuring smile and she looked towards princess.

I followed her gaze to still unconscious princess in hospital gown with her head bandaged, she had bruises on her cheeks and her nose and her lips were chapped. I couldn't help but release a tear but I wiped it quickly.

"She definitely a warrior." I said to the nurse, still looking at princess but when I didn't hear or feel any movement from the nurse, I looked behind me and saw that she left the room.

The room was quite except the sound of her heart rate monitor and her steady breath, I sit on the chair next to the bed, and I held her hand and gave it a squeeze.

"Baby, would you wake up for me?" I waited for a reply or a reaction but I got nothing.

"I wish that I had been there with you, I wish you hadn't had to face all of this on your own. I feel like every time that you needed someone I wasn't there. I weren't able to be there for you when you lost your dad because we were across the world. But this" my voice cracked, "I was down the stairs and still you got hurt. I wanted to take care of you like you took care of me when I was in your country." I moved to sit on the bed to be close to her.

"But I promise you that from now on" I took her hand and place it on my heart, "as long as my heart is beating, I won't let anyone hurt you." I looked at her and her eye released a tear, still closed, then she took my hand that was holding hers on my heart and placed it on her cheek. I tried to take me hand out of her hold to adjust it, but she seemed so peaceful and in ease. Her eyes slowly opened and released some unshed tears.

"Baba"