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I wake and immediately feel a throbbing pain on the side of my head, and my right leg feels too heavy to lift. Where am I? I can hear noises around me, but I don't open my eyes yet. A constant beeping is too my left and the sound of faint muffled voices of two people, I try to focus on the two voices.
"Does she have any permanent damage?" it's a male voice, a familiar one, but I can't place it in my dreary state.
"We, unfortunately, can't determine that yet." It's another male voice but this one I'm certain I don't know.
The man's words are followed by tears and sobbing of a woman. So there are a least three people here.
"It will be alright sweetheart, she always pulls through." The first man speaks soothingly and I recognise his voice.
"Dad?" I say, but it comes out as more of a whimper as I realise my throat is burning and dry.
"Darling?" my dad says hesitantly, but relief still clear in his voice. My eyes flutter slightly before I manage to fully open them. Firstly I'm meet by the sight of my dad holding onto my mum, both looked completely worse for wear. My dad has clear bags under his eyes and my mum's eyes are still filling with the tears that had evidently been falling for a while now. To their left is a man in his late twenties, who appears to be a doctor.
What is going on?
I look to my left arm and see a needle in it attacked to a drip. I pull my bed sheet to find my right leg covered in plaster. I'm in hospital but why?
"Miss Benedict, I'm Dr Lawrence…" the doctor says, as he walks from my parents and stands beside the bed. "…Do you know where you are?" I glance toward my parents and their anxious gazes before turning back to face Dr Lawrence.
"I'm in hospital, right?"
"Yes, Miss Benedict, you are. Can you remember why?" He asks with a gentle smile, I can tell he genuinely cares which helps me relax a little. But only a little.
I reach over to the table on my right to get a glass of water and take a gulp, it helps sooth my throat but not the madness of the situation. Everyone is watching me intently, willing me to utter the words they want, but the words they want aren't the truth.
"No, I don't know. What happened?"
My mum lets out a sob and quickly rushes to my side. She immediately tugs me to her side and causes burning pain along my rib cage.
"Ouch!"
Instantly she pulls away, looking guilty, and my dad comes over to guide my mum to a seat at my side. Everything is confusing me, what on earth happened?
"Mr and Mrs Benedict I feel it may benefit Amelia if you both leave the room at the moment, but of course that is up to you, Amelia."
I know it will hurt them both, especially mum, but I really need to get answers and I wasn't getting them whilst they are here.
"I'd prefer if they left the room."
"Are…are you sure? We want to be here for you sweetie." My mum says but I simply nod and turn away, not bearing to look as they both leave the room. I hear the door click as it closes and I'm left alone with Dr Lawrence.
"Amelia, you have been in a serious car crash. You took the full force of the impact and have consequently broken your right leg along with several ribs and we have yet to determine the damage to your skull and brain."
Car crash, why can't I remember any of it? I stare at the clinical white walls of the room, willing myself to remember what has happened. I know I was planning on going shopping with Maddie; she was just trying to get me out of the house, trying to get me to forget about Jeremy.
"Jeremy"
"What? Whose Jeremy?" he asks intrigued.
"Me and Maddie were in the car talking about Jeremy… well arguing about Jeremy and then…there was that truck…we didn't have time…there was nothing that could be done…" I trail off as I remember all of it. Maddie was shouting about how I must hate Jeremy, she was too focused on me to see the truck heading towards us.
"You remember it all then?" he questions, hopeful.
"Yeah, I do."
"Well that's great, Amelia. We will need you to stay in another night but you should be able to leave tomorrow morning. Would you like me to call your parents in, or any other family members? There are quite a few here, so not all of them can come in at once."
"Um…" Do I want them in here yet? They'll just fuss over me more; I can't be having that now.
"Oh and your boyfriend is here also, he isn't sat with your family so I presume they don't know about him, I can call him in if you want."
My Boyfriend? Justin must have come here but didn't want to face sitting with my family after our break up. The fact he still cares after me, makes me feel a hundred times guiltier but still seeing Justin now could be the thing I need; someone who isn't a savant.
"Yeah, could you call him in please?"
"Course." Dr Lawrence nods and leaves the room with a smile, happy that I will have someone with me.
I take another gulp of water and reach for a mirror on the bedside table. My face is covered by cuts and bruises, mostly minor one apart from the deep gash on forehead that has six stiches. I'm defiantly going to need to put on some make up when I get home. As I place the mirror back down a sudden case of nerves hit me, what will Justin think seeing me like this? I know he doesn't care about looks, he's not that shallow but still I'm not exactly looking my best at the moment.
"I think you still look gorgeous as ever."
I look up to find the person I least expected at the door.
"What are you doing here, Jeremy?" Don't get me wrong I am defiantly pleased but his changes in mood are confusing me. Does he want to be with me or not? Wait a minute, what did he just say?
"Do you read minds?"
Jeremy smiles slightly as he closes the door and walks over to me and instead of sitting on the chair beside me, decides to sit on the edge of the bed but is careful not to hurt me. He stares at me with such intensity and care that I think I can actually see the love in his eyes, but maybe that's just me hoping.
"You don't even know the first thing about me do you." Jeremy more states than questions and I can hear the sadness in his voice in that moment. I begin to feel empathetic towards him but then think of the fact that it is his fault I don't know these things about him. How can I be so conflicted between wanting to shout at him and wanting to kiss him?
"I think I prefer the latter." He chuckles as he once again reads my mind.
"Stop doing that!" I demand, now growing annoyed at him.
"For someone who lives in a huge family of savants, you really need to work on your shields, Amelia."
Usually my shields are up constantly, even at school but after waking up at hospital I have forgotten about them, but I quickly rectify that. Jeremy's face drops slightly as he feels my shields build back up.
"Why are you here, Jeremy?"
He sighs as he realises I am serious, not wanting to joke with him right now. At least I think I don't want to, I don't really know what I think lately. But seriousness seems the best way to get answers right now.
"Well I had to check that your pretty little self isn't hurt too much, it would be a shame for any permanent damage, especially to your face." He joked and it just irritated me more.
"Could you just be serious? Before you were too serious and brooding and well…miserable. Now you just joke when I'm trying to be serious with you. I can't keep up with you, and to think they say girls have mood swings."
"Sorry, I was really worried Amelia, honestly. When I heard about the accident I had to come here and see you were alright." Jeremy looked at me with such sincerity and I realised that I could never hate this guy, he is my soulfinder.
"Thanks, it does mean a lot. I've got a broken leg and couple broken ribs, apart from that it's just cuts and bruises, so I'm fine really."
"Don't down play it, Amelia. You shouldn't have any broken bones or cuts; if that Maddie girl was able to drive properly none of this would happen."
Oh my god, I have completely forgotten about Maddie! What injures does she have? I attempt to sit up, in a moment of panic, but immediately feel excruciating pain in my leg and ribs.
"Woo, what do you think you're doing?" Jeremy questions as he gently relaxes me back down but I'm too worried to mentally relax.
"Is Maddie OK? What has happened to her?"
"Maddie is fine I saw her with your family in the waiting room. The truck hit the passenger side of the car; she only has a few cuts." I let out a sigh of relief which sparks a flare of anger in Jeremy's eyes.
"She should have been the one with the broken bones; she was the one stupid enough to get the car hit by a truck!"
"It wasn't her fault! She wasn't concentrating because we were arguing 'bout…"
"About?"
"You, we were arguing about you."
"What about me?" Jeremy continues to press me for answers but not in a harsh way, he genuinely cares.
"She said I must hate you but I don't, despite the fact you're a murderer."
At this Jeremy drops his head and an overwhelming look of sadness, guilt and desperation takes over his face. In this moment I know that whatever he did, it wasn't his fault, he must have been forced into it by his father, there's no other explanation. I reach over and touch his hand and lift his head so I can look into his stunning green eyes, as I speak.
"Whatever happened, I don't care. I want to be with you, I want to be with soulfinder. I want us to know everything about each other and spend every waking moment thinking of each other. I want us to be together, Jeremy." My words bring a smile to his face and Jeremy smiles at me so sweetly that I think my heart might just crumble to pieces.
"Well then let's get to know each other. Amelia Benedict what…" he thinks for a moment and a grin grows on my face as I realise we are finally beginning to become a real couple, how soulfinder's should be. "…what is your favourite colour?"
"Well, Jeremy Valentine my favourite colour is purple, yours?"
"Green."
"Because of your eyes?"
"Why, Miss Benedict I'm so flattered you noticed." Jeremy pretends to be flushed and fans his cheeks, causing us to both burst out laughing. It feels so good to just be here and laugh with my soulfinder, it just feels so complete.
Once we both stop laughing he continues to ask questions and I gladly welcome the distraction.
"Favourite band?"
"Hmm…" I ponder thinking of all the great bands I love. "…got to be imagine dragons."
"Who? I prefer old school rock and roll, ACDC all the way for me."
"I will pretend you didn't just say that." His grin continues to grow and I love the fact that I have caused his happiness, just as he has done the same for me.
"What about food?" He asks.
"Got to be pizza."
"Well that's something we have in common, has to be pizza without meat though."
"You're vegetarian?"
"Vegan."
"Really?" That was something I defiantly didn't expect. "What do you eat?"
"I will show you, I'll have to cook for you one day." He paused as he thought of something and suddenly he seemed sad.
"What's wrong?"
"It's just a shame we're going to have to keep us a secret. Both our families won't exactly be happy about us being together."
"We're going to need to tell them someday, I am planning on spending the rest of my life with you."
"I know and we will it's just for a little while, we need to be together just you and me."
Doubt sets in and I feel anxious as to what Jeremy wanted with this relationship.
"If you don't want to be with me…" Instantly Jeremy cups my face and rectifies the mistake.
"Of course I want to be with you. I want to spend every moment of my life with you, Amelia. I care so much about you and I'm so lucky to have you as my soulfinder."
"Really?" I ask, but my voice sounds faint as I watch his face get closer to mine until we are inches apart.
"Yes, forever and always, I promise you." Before I can say anything he puts his lips to mine and seals his promise with a kiss.
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