Kyle was in a blissfully painless sleep but was pulled out by the feeling of being watched. He opened his eyes and saw Lily standing next to his bed writing on a clipboard.
"Hey sleepyhead" she said when she noticed that he was awake, "how would you like me to take that tube out?"
Kyle nodded as much as he was able to.
"Ok then, you know the drill"
After removing the tube Kyle started coughing and Lily feed him some ice chips from the bed side table.
"Thanks" he said roughly as she sat down next to him.
"How long have I been out?" he asked trying not to breathe to deeply.
"Roughly a day" Lily told him "So how are you feeling?" she asked.
"Like I got shot in the lung" he responded.
"Your family was here earlier" she told him, "They were really worried about you. They stayed here all night until you woke up and I convinced them that you'd be all right and to go home." She paused "So you remember what happened?".
"Not much it's all kind of fuzzy"
Lily mentally let out a sigh of relief maybe he didn't remember what she had said and then maybe she could try and forget about it.
"However" started Kyle.
'Uh oh' Lily thought.
"I do remember what you said the other day about telling me how you felt, so spill it what did you mean?" Kyle said now suddenly out of breath but, he just had to know.
Lily didn't know what to say she didn't even know if she truly did love him or not. But then if she didn't why had she said that?
After a minute or two of thinking Lily finally responded.
"Well, at first I didn't know myself what I had meant, but after thinking about it I realized that I have always had feelings for you, but I guess that I didn't let myself know it, until I almost lost you"
Kyle was stunned was this Lily talking or was he still dreaming? Then when he took a beep breath and the waves of pain that were sent throughout his body told him that he was by no means sleeping.
"And I guess" Lily continued "What I meant was that, I was afraid that I would lose you without being able to tell you that I love you"
Lily could not believe that she had just said that. She hadn't meant to it just came out. Had she really just told him that she loved him? What could she do now, but wait for his response.
'Was this for real? Had Lily just told him that she loved him' Kyle kept thinking in disbelief. It wasn't that he didn't know how he felt about her he had loved her since he had first seen her.
"Lily" Kyle started, but paused when he heard sirens coming towards the hospital, then he continued "I, I love you too"
Lily didn't have time to respond or think about what he had just told her for at that moment a nurse rushed through the doors of the ICU.
"Dr. Reddicker we need you in the ER" she said as she hurried away.
"Kyle, I've got to go" Lilly said ran out of the door.
Kyle watched as Lily left with a slight annoyance, accidents always happened at the wrong time, but he was really too tired to be angry any longer and he fell back asleep.
