Chapter 2 Thank G-d you're okay…
It has been a week since the accident and Ben was still in a coma. Gwen was beginning to fear he's not gonna make it. She came to visit him at the hospital every day after school and has spent most of her time sitting next to him, waiting for him to wake up. However, the longer she waited, the worse she felt. She was itching to thank Ben for saving her and possibly sacrificing his spine to do so… and… she wanted to tell him… that she loves him… but that's just the thing. He really did sacrifice his spine to save her. The doctor said he would be paralyzed from the waist and below. And she felt horrifyingly, indescribably and excruciatingly awful about it. She felt guilty in a way… if only she would have dodged Ghost freak's attack, maybe it could have bought some time and maybe then she wouldn't have been controlled by him, maybe at least not when it happened. Another thing that made her bad about herself was the fact that she came out of the incident almost unharmed and Ben on the other hand became partially paralyzed. Since she heard he was paralyzed she started to plan a way to collect money for fixing his spine. Unfortunately combining her parent's money and Ben's parent's money wasn't enough. She was still 2,000$ short. So she was going to personally collect the money for his spinal surgery. So far she has collected 22$ so she has a long way to go…
Without Gwen noticing, Ben was beginning to wake up….
His fingers moved and his eyes opened slowly but surely until they were fully open. His eyeballs moved in their sockets looking at his new surroundings. He then looked to his right and whispered
"Gwen…"
Gwen slightly lifted her head up and saw Ben was awake and was speaking to her. She then immediately embraced him into a big, warm, loving, happy and relieved hug…
She was crying so hard she could not even talk. But she wasn't crying only because Ben was alright. It was also because she would now have to thank him for saving her and saying that she loves him etc. and that took more courage to do than she first imagined. But what bothered her most was that she would have to tell him he's partially paralyzed…
Gwen was still crying… Ben was hugging her back and kissed her on her red colored hair. This kiss made Gwen's heart leap and accelerate…
"maybe he does love?..." she thought with a quiet, happy and moved sigh… a tear was seen in her right eye and it was sparkling like a diamond crystal in her beautiful and priceless green eyes…
Gwen opened her mouth to speak with a stuttering and shaking voice which choked by her own tears…
All Gwen could mouth was something that sounded like a combination between stuttering and panting. She was now crying harder than before…
Ben hugged his hurt and heartbroken cousin slightly tighter than before and kissed her on both of her cheeks and on her hair…
"shh… it's okay Gwen… it's okay. I'm okay now so that's what's important… so please don't be so emotional because you know I'm alive and well now…"
Gwen opened her eyes. She whipped the tears off them and hugged Ben tighter now and opened her mouth to speak again…
"Ben?..."
"Yes Gwen?"
"I'm afraid… I have some bad news for you…"
"What is it Gwen?" asked the injured young man
"I'm afraid… that… you're not as well… as you think… you are… Ben…" she whispered his name at the end…
'What do you mean Gwen?"
Gwen sighed, took a deep breath and said to her cousin:
"I'm afraid that during your accident, you hurt your spine and due to its injury you are now paralyzed from the waist and down… I'm so sorry Ben…" she sobbed the last words and put her face on his shoulde…
"Why are you sorry Gwen? You didn't do anything…" asked Ben and kissed her hair again and patted her on it while doing so, trying to comfort his very sad and hysterical and heartbroken cousin…
"I'm sorry for you Ben… and in a way I feel somewhat guilty for what happened to you…"
"You feel guilty Gwen? Why would you feel guilty for what happened to me?..."
"I feel guilty because… I feel it was partially my fault… if I would have dodged Ghost freak, then maybe it would have bought some time… maybe he wouldn't have got control on me… maybe at least not when he did…"
Ben sighed
"Gwen… I don't think it would have really mattered if you would have dodged him. He would have still gotten control on you eventually…"
"Yeah…" whispered Gwen…
"You know I love you, right Gwen?..."
Gwen's body jerked up when she heard Ben's say those three little words that meant so much to her… especially the one that begins with the letter L. A word that has so much power it can change the world and life itself… Love… is what makes the world go around…
"You do?" she asked
'Of course I do Gwen… why wouldn't I love you?..."
"I just had this feeling… that you hated me… I once thought I hated you too… because we kept fighting…"
'I thought so too Gwen… but the more I thought about it, the more I realized that I love you... and I want you to know that I meant it as real love Gwen and not just cousin love…" said Ben as his cheeks turned slightly pink…
Gwen smiled as another tear appeared in her eyes, sparkling like a beautiful diamond cryistal…
The dream of her dream has fainally come true… he said he loves her… just like she loves him… and it was more than just a cousin…
Yeah…
"I love you too Ben… I love you too with all my heart, with every cell and very part of my being and soul… I love you more than life itself… and I too mean it as in more than cousin love…"
Ben smiled and said
"I'm glad to hear it Gwen…" as she got up and looked him right in the eyes… Ben stretched out two of his fingers and whipped off the tears off both of Gwen cheeks and he then had his hands on her cheeks as she did the same as their faces inched closer and closer to each other and their eyes closed shut slowly but surely until their lips finally met for the first time in their lives… and it felt indescribably wonderful and enjoyable… they both wanted to kiss each other on the lips since before they were were born… and finally that dream has come true… their heart was pounding like a drum…
PUM-PUM, PUM-PUM, PUM-PUM
And their cheeks were pinker than the bedroom of a four year old girl, their faces were covered with a cold sweat and their hearts were now combined and have merged into a whole and a very happy one… just like a ballerina's dancing merges harmonically with its classical music… they were truly in love… and they felt that no one could stop them from loving each other anymore…
Their lips have finally but slowly slipped away from each other… Gwen was just staring in Ben's pink face and she simply embraced him into a hug and said
"Now we can be together forever Ben…" "
I hope so Gwen… I hope so…" said her cousin who has now become her true and perfect lover and has kissed her on her beautiful red hair, which is one the reasons he fell in love with her… he fell in love… with his own very beloved cousin… Gwen Tennyson… yeah…
Without neither of them noticing, Gwen found herself lying beside Ben in bed and he had his arm around her shoulder and she had her arm around his waist… he kissed her on her hair again and she kissed his chest and it was right where his heart was… and they were both asleep when it happened… they didn't even know about it… their love for each other was so great that they even showed it and expressed it in their sleep… so that's true love… that's true love… as they continued to sleep they both kissed each other on the lips… Gwen then stirred up in her sleep and kissed him on both of his cheeks and on his lips and on his chest were his heart was… and it all happened in her sweet, sweet, sleep of a slumber she was in, which appeared to magical… Ben too kissed her on her lips and cheeks as well in his just as magical sweet, sweet sleep of a slumber he was in… they then stirred once more and their cheeks were next to each other(Ben most ironically moved himself in his sleep with his arms while lying in bed) and their chests touched each other right on the spot of where their hearts were… they both kissed each other on the lips again in their sleep and then on the cheek and tightened the embrace into one another's warm and loving body… Ben kissed his cousin's lips one more time in his sleep and he was now sleeping more soundly than ever… Ben's right foot twitched under the blanket as he kissed his cousin once again and whispered to her in his sleep
"I love you…"
And she answered while under the charm and the spell of her magical sleep
I love you too Ben… I love you too…' and she kissed him on the lips this time and they tightened the embrace on each other… and whispered to each other once again
'I love you…'
'I love you too…'
And kissed each other on the lips once again and tightened their embrace again against each other
So that's true love… that's true love…. Indeed…
They were both having the same dream… they were both a madly in love couple, Ben's spine was cured, their parents approve their relationship… and they were very happy about it… yeah…
As the dream continued… they were engaged… and they finally married as the happiest couple in the world… and then finally… after two years of marriage, Gwen finally had their first baby… and she was beautiful… and they named her Lily…
And they lived happily ever after…
Little did they know that all the contents of the dream would come true… including Ben's spine being cured… their dream would come true but would much better and happier than the way it appeared in the dream… it would be so much better and happier, it could not be measured, it was almost like infinity to the power of infinity itself… it was that happy… and good…
As they slept they didn't notice that on the EKG machine that Ben's was connected to a sentence appeared that read
'Spinal cord repaired…' and it happened right when Ben and Gwen kissed each other in the dream while Gwen was lying in her hospital bed after giving birth to their baby girl…
And they lived happily ever after… (Indeed…)
Well what do you think? Cute and heartwarming wasn't it? I think it was also very romantic… what do you think? Do you think it's cute and heartwarming? Did you like it? Did you dis like it? Did you like it even more?
Please tell me what you think on your reviews on your way out…
Thank you…