Chapter 41 Letting go
"This is all my fault" Raven wept sitting beside her sister grasping her hand. Iziah was indeed very lucky, they had missed every vital organ she had and she would be fine. At least she was awake and smiling like her old self, it was like she wasn't in the hospital with nine stab wounds to her stomach.
"Raven this is not your fault" Iziah soothed "And believe you me when I gets outta here I'm going to make them regret the day their parents ever met"
Raven shook her head "If I had just kept my mouth shut then you wouldn't be in here"
Iziah grasped her hand tighter "Raven listen to me, this is not your fault. You did the right thing, trust me"
"I'm so sorry Izzy"
"Did you stab me?"
"No"
"Then why are you sorry?"
"I shouldn't of told you, I shoulda just suffered in silence"
"Suffereing in silence only puts you through more hell and you know that" Iziah let out a gentle whimper of pain, it had been a while since she had been stabbed so the pain took a while to get used too again "But in all seriousness, I think you should tell Randy the entire story"
Raven shook her head "Things are going great between us I don't want to ruin it with my skeletons"
"Raven you gotta tell him at some point and there's no time like the present"
Raven sighed "Maybe your right but if reacts like Chase did"
"Then thats another person added to my list" Iziah soothed again "But for what its worth I don't think he'll react like Chase did afterall Randy loves you"
Raven let out a sigh "I know but I still can't see him turning around and going oh well thats alright I still love you"
"Well I can tell you one thing he's not going to be happy about it but then again who would?"
"Hey baby" Rey said finally joining his wife's bedside "How you feeling?"
"Great shockingly, how are you?"
"I'll leave you guys to it, I should be getting back to work"
"Thanks for being with her Raven"
"Anytime Rey" Raven kissed her sister's hand "I'll be back later to see how you are"
"Ok sister"
Rey took a seat by her bedside, his hand entwined in her's. After all these years of Iziah getting injured somehow and winding up in hospital, he still wasn't used to seeing her lying there in pain.
"Rey you know what I'm about to say don't you?"
He let out a heavy sigh "Yeah, are you sure you wanna do this?"
"I have too and you know that"
"Have you been unhappy with me after all these years Izzy?"
"No Rey of course not but this is just something I have to do and I hope you can understand that"
"I understand Izzy, really I do"
"So I guess this is good-bye" Iziah said sadly her eyes filling up with tears.
"Its not good-bye Izzy, think of it as see you soon"
Iziah kissed his hand "Well we have some time to kill before I'm in any shape to do anything, wanna fool around?"
Rey let out a laugh "Thats the last thing you should be thinking of Izzy"
"I know but its hard when your sitting there covered in blood, something about it just gets me going"
"I'll tell you what once your outta the hospital we'll fool around before you go about your evil plan"
Iziah let out a giggle "I'll hold you to that"