Chapter 25 - Believe

I don't know how I got here

I knew it wouldn't be easy

But your faith in me was so clear

It didn't matter how many times I got knocked on the floor

But you knew one day I would be standing tall

Just look at me now

3 months later (Ronnie POV)

It's been three months since I was in the hospital and it took about a month just to get out of the hospital, right now I still have a broken leg and a broken arm and tons of scratches but nothing else. I'm pretty close to how I looked before the car accident, and I feel pretty good too.

They haven't caught Marcus yet, it seems that he is back in North Carolina and the police here can't do anything until he comes closer so Will and I got a restraining order but it hasn't helped anything, it hasn't made me feel safer and I haven't been able to get behind the wheel of my car or any. Will is always there to help me and he drives me to and from Julliard even with him still going to Columbia which isn't very close to my school.

Summer is in about a month so I am very happy about that, I get to spend more time with Will and we are going back to Wilmington for the majority of the summer and I might even bring along Jonah too, he really has been getting really close to me, he won't let me out of his sight, even to sleep. He has to sleep in my room on the floor in his sleeping bag like he did at the beginning of the school year, it's pretty hard with Will sleeping in my room also. He won't let me out of his sight no matter what, he can barely go to Megan's house to shower without calling me when he gets there, when he gets out of the shower, and when he is leaving the apartment. He is just really sweet.

Will and I have gotten so close that you couldn't pull us apart no matter what, I have never felt any safer then when I am laying in his arms at night and he is whispering sweet, loving things in my ear. My love has grown unbelievably in the last three months for him than I ever thought was possible.

Jonah and I have been spending so much time together when Will isn't by my side, Jonah was laying with me the whole time, it seemed, when I was in that hospital bed. He wouldn't leave my side, but with Will right by me on the chair I couldn't complain, I had great people around me.

About a week after I woke up Gal left back to Wilmington, I was worried about her with Marcus near but she assured me that she wouldn't have any problem with it and I trusted her. Ashley, Scott, and Cassie left about the same time as Gal did, but that wasn't such a warm, gushy goodbye as the last one. I was just glad to be rid of them.

Today I was going back in the hospital to get my casts removed with Will and then he had a special night planned for us. I was so excited, I couldn't think of anything that I would rather do than be with him on the day that I got my 'freedom' back.

I picked out my outfit, a black top that hung off my shoulder with another black tank top under it, with shorts and a flip flop, I put the other flip flop in my bag with another pair of sweats so I wouldn't have to deal with the hairiness of my leg when the cast came off. I was just putting everything in my bag when my mom knocked on my door saying that Will was in the living room waiting for me. I went outside and gave my mom and Brian a kiss on the cheek and gave Jonah a hug goodbye before Will helped me get my crutches and we went to the elevator and left through the lobby and he helped me into the car. I breathed a sigh of relief and just talked to Will the whole time that he was driving and I laughed with him and it felt so good to just unwind and we pulled into the parking lot of the hospital and he got out of the car and ran around to my side and helped me out and placed his hand on the small of my back while we walked into the hospital and signed myself in.

Cause everything starts from something

But something would be nothing

Nothing if you heart didn't dream with me

Where would I be, If you didn't believe

Will helped me sit down and we waited for the nurse to call me in. While we waited we held hands and I loved being this close to Will, it seemed like we just couldn't get enough of each other.

"Veronica Miller." Someone called my name and Will helped me stand and then lead my to the door that the nurse was sticking her head out of. We said the usual greetings, 'How are you?', 'Are you excited for the casts to come off?' and I answered each one politely and then we were stuck in the room where we had to wait for, what seemed like hours, for the doctor to come in while he was chatting up a nurse.

"So, Ronnie, you excited for tonight?" Will whispered in the corner, I don't know what it is about hospitals but it seems that right when Will or I step into one we automatically start to whisper, it is so annoying.

"Well, yeah, of course I am. I get to spend the night with you, but I would be so much more excited if you told me where we were going." I told him, hoping that he would give up and tell me where he was taking me but no such luck he just shook his head with an evil smile on his face. I was sitting on the bed so I couldn't go over to kiss him but, like he was reading my mind, Will came to me and gave me a kiss on the lips.

"You know what, you will find out when we get there." He smiled again before heading back to the chair but I reached out with my good arm and pulled him towards me by the collar of his shirt and whispered that I wasn't done with him yet, and gave him a smug smile before capturing his lips in a kiss that made my toes curl. But since I was the one that initiated the kiss I had to be the one to stop it and since his hands were knotting themselves in my hair I could tell that we were going to get way out of hand.

I pushed him away, while we were both breathless, "Wow, I hope I get more of that tonight." I whispered to him and he smiled at me and nodded and just then the doctor came in and smiled at Will and I.

"Well, hello, Ronnie, how are you?" He asked. I had to try hard not to roll my eyes at that, did everyone in this hospital have to ask that stupid question?

"Yes, I am well. Just wanting to get these casts off." He smiled at that and touched her arm before using his tools to take the cast off and he did the same thing to her leg and after about half an hour she was finally free. He bent her arm and her leg to make sure they were working properly and gave her the approval so that she could walk again. She walked from one side of the room to the other and he nodded in satisfaction when she sat on the chair that was right by Will's.

"Well, it seemed like everything healed correctly so you may go now. Just take Tylenol if you experience any more pain." She nodded at that and grabbed Will's arm to steady herself before shaking the doctor's hand and he left the room with the crutches that Ronnie had used for the past three months.

"You did great." Will whispered to her and they shared another kiss before leaving the hospital and taking her to his car. He shut her door and then ran over to his side and got in, he smiled at her. "You are going to love this surprise." And without any other words he peeled out of the parking lot and started to drive with the traffic. About halfway there, she assumed since he pulled over in an abandoned lot, he stopped the car and looked over at her.

"What are we doing here?" She asked him and he smiled before reaching behind him in the truck and pulling out a piece of cloth.

"I need to blindfold you." He told her and her smile vanished, what did he have planned? She thought.

"Oh no." She laughed and against her better judgment she turned around and let him tie it around her head. "Just so you know, I am only doing this because I love you." She told him and he rewarded her with the sound of his laugh and she smiled at that, she loved him so much.

He turned her around to face the sound of his voice, "No peaking, Ronnie." He told her and she nodded and then felt the car start up again and she assumed they started to move. After about ten minutes, it felt like, she felt the car turn and then gradually stop and she was staring off into whatever direction she was facing before he pulled her face towards him again. "I'm still not letting you see anything so I am going to get out of the car and then help you out, 'kay?" He told her and she nodded before hearing a door close and a couple of seconds later she heard her door open and felt his hand on her arm pulling her up.

He walked her somewhere and then had her stand for a little bit before she heard the buzz that sounded like an elevator and he pulled her on it and then she heard him press a button and a couple more seconds later he pulled her out and led her down what felt like a hallway and then he stopped her.

"Okay, I'm taking the blindfold off." He told her and it fell off and she was facing a door that was in, what seemed like an apartment with the number 305 on it. She stared at Will who was looking at her gauging her reaction before handing her the keys. "This is our new apartment." He told her and she gasped.

"Will, you didn't have to get us an apartment, I could've helped." I told him and he shook his head.

"With everything that was going on I just wanted to give you this and just so you know I was thinking about this before you got in that accident." I nodded and he gestured toward the keys that were in my hand. "You can open the door." I put the keys in the lock and opened the door, he led me through the door and I gasped once again, this place was beautiful. It opened into a hallway that led into three different doors and Will lead me into the first one on our right and it looked to be the kitchen. It was huge with an island in the middle and another door leading off into another room and Will lead us into the living room that was amazing, it had a fireplace but no furnishings. It had a balcony outside and I was so in awe of it and Will lead her on the rest of the tour.

In the master bedroom, our room, there was a bathroom and another balcony that faced the lights of New York, it was so beautiful. Like the living room it had no furnishings and after exploring the rest of the apartment, there was nothing there and Will explained that he wanted to shop with me and I nodded before looking at everything else. The apartment was amazing and I looked at Will and said the most simplest thing I could ever say to anyone.

"I love you."

I kissed him long and hard and he sank us onto the floor of the living room and, right by the fireplace that was raging with a fire that was so beautiful, we made love.