CHAPTER 23:
Cooper felt his own jaw drop and turn involuntarily pale. Fiona continued to stare at him accusingly. Cooper felt the sweat build up on his temples. Finally he snapped out of his trance.
"HEY! Doctor! She's awake!" Cooper ran out of the room. "Someone get me a doctor! Fiona Taylor's awake!"
After one of the doctors arrived, Cooper left to go get Jen and James from the cafeteria. He ran down the halls, just avoiding a collision with a nurse. He stopped, out of breath at the entrance to the food court area. He saw Jen and James canoodling in a booth at the back of the food court. Sighing, he hurried over to them
"Mui! James!" The couple looked up at him. "Fiona's awake!" Jen scrambled out of her seat and hurried off back to the room. James and Cooper followed.
After several doctors and nurses performed many tests on Fiona, they finally left the room and Jen was at last, alone with Fiona.
"Fiona, where to begin? I feel so guilt-ridden and…"
"Jennifer, I should have listened to your warning. I just felt like I wanted to go my own way, but I was so ticked off, nothing you could have said would have stopped me at that point."
"I should have said that he was abusive, maybe that would have gotten your attention. God, it's my entire fault." Jen broke down into tears again.
"Jen, please, the main thing is, is that I'm alive. All right? I forgive you. Do you forgive me?" Fiona said, barely holding back her own tears.
"Of course. Of course I'm forgiving you; I almost lost my best friend."
"It'll be all right Jen." Jen stood up from her chair to give Fiona a hug.
"Friends?"
"Friends."