And Then Hello
I wake up in my bed. Sky holds my hand. I sit up abruptly, startling her.
"Where is Cole?" I ask. She looks away.
"In the hospital wing but listen Jade..." I jump up and run in. I see him on a bed. I wrap my arms around him and cry.
"Thank God. I love you so much." I bury my face in his chest. I feel him shift and I am thrown in the air. I hit my head on the edge of a bed and my body hits the floor.
"Who the hell are you?" He yells. I feel the tension in my chest snap. I breath heavy. My heart pounds in my ears.
He doesn't remember me. My love threw me off him. He doesn't know me.
I clutch my chest, and I gasp, not being able to breath. I see him get up and kneel by me.
"Hey, I'm sorry you scared me. Are you okay?"
"You really don't know me?" I ask. He shakes his head. I shiver and wrap my body into a ball. I collapse on myself.
"Someone help!" He yells. I feel the air around me cool. I look up and the room freezes. I see Cole gasp. I feel my face freeze. I am freezing myself. Some would call it suicide. But I refuse to live without him. I understand Juliet now. My Romeo is gone, and so I will cease my existence too.
"Jade! Unfreeze the door. Jade don't do it!" I reach up and place my hand on his face.
"I'm sorry." I say as the ice spreads through my body.
"Jade, stop." Cole looks at me. I shake my head.
"I love you, but you don't know me," I sob. I feel the chill reach my fingers.
"Jade, I may not know you, but I remember you. Your hair." He plays with my hair. Snow begins to fall as I cry more. "Your eyes. Your lips." He traces my lips with his thumb. "I remember how sweet you are, although you act tough. I remember how protective you are of me." I blush. He sighs. "I remember that blush. I don't know you, but in hell, all I could think about was you. My body knows you."
I am about to say something when I writhe in pain. I feel ice spread through me. I feel my eyes close and freeze shut. I sigh, an My breath freezes. I can't breath anymore. I feel my body warm a little. I must be dead. I feel it more intense now. It is radiating from the source.
"You will not die!" Cole yells. I gasp for breath. I feel the ice melt. He stares down at me with a strange intensity. I feel myself defrost. My breathing slows and I clutch at him.
"Cole..." I cry in his chest. He wraps his arms around me.
"This feels familiar. Jade, I am confused. Why can't I remember? I know how to comfort you. I know brief flashes of you, but I don't know you. It just feels right, having you in my arms." I look up at him. "It feels right to do this." His hand tilts up my chin and he kisses me softly. My eyes widen, then I respond, holding him closely.
"You may not know me, but I know you." I smile.
"I'm not sure of anything anymore." He shakes his head.
"Your father is Zeus, you died a few months ago. Your favorite color is green. Not neon, not swamp but dark." He sighs.
"Anyone could know that."
"Your brother is Rodney. He hates you because when you were twelve, you had to choose between yourself or everyone dying. You chose yourself. You still cry at night in regret when you assume no one is watching. You love me s much you would die for me. You almost did. You are always there with your kindness and consideration and...and..." I break down in a sob, holding him tighter. "And I know I love you with all of my being. I will lay my life down for you." I say. He tightens his grip on me and I feel tears fall on my shoulders. I pull away an see him crying. I wipe away the tears. His face is ice cold.
"I want to know you Jade, but I can't. I want to love you but I don't know how." I smile.
"We can do it together." I hug him. "Come on, we need to get out of here before you die of hypothermia."
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