🌹R O S E III🌹

🌹CHAPTER TWENTY🌹

Beeps from machines find my ears as I open my eyes, meeting a white ceiling where my eyes look up. My body feels so weak and it pains me to move as I'm having a hard time moving at all. Groaning I try to sit up but my body just doesn't want to move that much.

"Oh, get the doctor, she's awake. My baby, Rose, it's your mom, I'm here with you" A voice says beside me and my eyes travel over there to see my mother there. She holds my hand as another person who I could not see leaves the room. My mom is crying as she holds my hand.

"M-mom?" I ask but my voice is hoarse and strange sounding and it sounds almost unfamiliar to even me. "Yes, sweetie, it's me" She says as she sits down but she never lets go of my hand. I give her a confused look as I try to move but my body is so weak that it's almost impossible.

"Don't move, honey, Lena's getting the doctor for you. Just hang on, don't close your eyes" She says to me as I had not realized that I was almost going to close my eyes, I'm so tired and I just want to go back to sleep as it was so comforting and nice.

The door then opens and slightly changed looking Lena and a man I've never seen before enter the room. "Good to see you're awake, Ms. Ace. How are you feeling?" He asks me as he takes up a flashlight and walks over to me. "I'm feeling fine, just a bit weak in my whole body but other than that I'm all right" I tell him.

My voice is still a bit weak and strange and hoarse but I can still speak. He nods as he lights the flashlight into my eyes for a moment and then he, I think checks my pulse and other stuff. "All is as it should be and the weakness is completely normal for a patient in a deep coma" He says and I gape at him. Coma?

"I don't think I understand what you are referring to" I tell him confused. I'm in a hospital but I have no idea why or what is happening around here. My mom squeezes my hand as she cries. "Could you leave us alone to talk?" My mom then asks the doctor and he nods and leaves the room.

My mom sits on the bed while I can only raise an eyebrow as I try to sit up but I can't. "Rose, what is the last thing you remember?" My mom asks me while Lena just stands there with tears in her eyes. "I was with Alexander and he got shot... oh my God, is he ok?" I ask as I look around but I don't see him.

All of it is coming back to me. I was in his office and then he was shot and I think I was shot too and then nothing. I feel my eyes start to water as the tears are rolling down my face. My mom nods her face. "Yes, he's all right and you are too. But Rose, honey, it's been a year" She says.

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My mom and Lena explained everything to me of what had happened. Alexander and I were shot and then brought to the hospital where the two of us had to go into surgery but because the bullet was so close to my spine they had to put me into a coma and it has taken a year for the injury to heal itself.

And I died. Well, my heart stopped and I flat lined but the doctors managed to restart it again. They also explained to me what has been going on. Lena got married to her ex boyfriend and now they're happily married and she was actually she one that married them which is a bit odd but then again I've been in a coma for a year so everything is a bit odd to me.

Lena also had some mental breakdown because of a miscarriage that she had and she actually ended up in this same hospital and she was in a bed beside mine to make her feel better to have me beside her, even when I could not even hear her or know she was there.

I was also told that Alexander got back on his feet a couple of months later and now runs both our companies (since I wasn't there to run mine, which belongs to him too) but he would still visit every single day and sometimes even two times a day and he would sit and cry and speak to me.

It makes me emotional even thinking about it and it makes me feel things that I know is love because the love that I have for him is just too great and the love that he has for me is powerful. So many things have happened over the past year that I've missed but it truly does not feel like I've been through that much since it seems just yesterday I was with Alexander and we were shot.

Lena and my mom had left to give me some privacy to think of all of this and I can't be sure what I'm supposed to do now. I'm awake and I'm in a hospital and just so confused about everything and everyone. Lena has changed, her hair is shorter and she's almost glowing and my mom looks more tired and exhausted looking.

While I... well, I don't even know how I look like and I'm not sure if I want to know how I look like at the moment because I'm confident that I look horrible since I've been in a coma for a year. The thought is still trying to sink its way into my brain.

I'm having a hard time even processing that fact that a year has passed already and everyone has moved on with their lives while I was just stuck here. I missed my best friend's wedding and I was not there for her when she had a miscarriage.

Technically I was there but at the same time I was not there for her and I was not there to help her go through it, to comfort her and make her feel better after the pain that she has gone through. She's suffered so much I was not there to hold her and make sure she was all right.

I have missed so many things in the past year and it makes me feel horrible and I feel the tears start running down my cheeks once again as I sit here. My mom had helped me sit up since I was a bit too weak. They were told that when I were going to wake up I would feel like I could barely even move my body because of the fact that I've not moved it myself in a year and it will take some time for my muscles have been lying down for a long time now.

Being asleep for a year is strange and I can remember bits and pieces of things that took place but were dreams, like I can remember being in a hospital but awake and then I can remember Lena and something about a wedding but it's all just blurry in my mind and nothing makes sense anymore.

I look at my hand to see the glow rings on my fingers and it brings a smile to my face, that I can remember the time that Alexander did propose to me, twice. The first time it was not quite clear and I was angry at him and I think everyone knows this by now.

The door then opens and my mom walks inside. "Sweetie, do you need anything or want anything?" She asks me as she walks over to the bed to take my hand. Like she doesn't believe that I'm really awake and I realize just how hard this must have been for my mother and just everyone.

While I slept through it and the time passed rather quickly for me but for everyone else, they had to suffer for a year because of it and that is so unfair to all of them. "No, I'm good" I tell her, she did get me water for my throat as it was a bit dry before but now I'm better.

"I've called Alexander and he will be here in a couple of minutes" She says after a moment or two of silence between us. I nod as I smile. Seeing him would be like seeing him the next morning at work or something but I feel nervous, knowing how it has been a year and I don't know how he looks like nor even how I look like.

I sigh. "Do you think he will like me again?" I ask her, it has been a year and while my feelings are still as strong as every about him, perhaps his feelings for me have changed and that makes me so sad to think that he might not even love me the same again.

It would break my heart to know that he moved on from me but then again he would've had to since he has to live his life to the fullest. My mom smiles at me. "Trust me, that man would like you if you were covered in trash and had not showered four months. That is how much he loves you" She says.

Smiling at the words, to think that he loves me that much but then again I do love him the same way. I don't care how he looks as he will always be the most handsomest man that I've ever met in my entire life and I will love him if he were covered in trash and had not taken a shower for months.

"And I'm guessing you would feel the same way" My mom says and wiggles her eyebrows and I look down as I feel the blush rise to my cheeks. "Now, I think it's best that I leave as he will be coming in just a moment and I'm sure the two of you have much to discuss" She says as she kisses my forehead and hugs me and then she leaves the room.

Meeting Alexander after all that time (still just a night for me) will be strange and I can feel my heart pounding within my chest just by the thought of it and the thought of it makes me exited yet I dream it at the same time as I fear the rejection as soon as he sees me.

My mother did tell me that he would love me no matter what but what if that changes now that I'm awake? What if he would not love me the same way? The longer that I'm here alone the more I think of all the horrible things that could happen.

I really should not be left alone in here with only my thoughts to myself, it makes me horrible inside my chest and I want to get rid of these feelings and bring back the good ones which is much harder to do when all the negativity is around me inside my head and I honestly can't seem to be able to stop it.

Then a knock on the door breaks me from my thoughts and then the door opens. A man walks in, a man that I'm quite familiar with and a smile comes up on my lips when my eyes do look at him. He looks at me with a shocked expression on his face. "Rose" He whispers as he walks closer to me and the smile on my lips only widens. "Alexander" I whisper back.