I'm Nothing Without You Chap12

‘Leigh?’ I weakly ask. I still see his figure but no face. ‘Who is Avie?’

I heard him chuckled. He seated in the bed still holding my hand. ‘It is you, silly. You are Avie Henrich.’ he said gaily at me.

‘Henrich?’ then it struck me. I"AM Avie Henrich. Reality hit me as fast as lightening. I look closely at the figure and slowly as if dramatically his face clears. ‘Leigh…’ I whisper. I assess my surroundings. I’ am attached to a cardiac monitoring which produces the beeping sound I heard earlier. My body is attached with so many tubings, and all. I’m in oxygen, telling from the nasal prong that is inserted on my nostrils. ‘Where am I, Leigh?’

‘You’re in the ICU. They were monitoring you for-’

‘ICU?! NO!’ suddenly the memories I try to erase from my find flashes back at me.

‘Please Doctor I want to see my grandparents.’

‘But Miss K-’ he abruptly stops upon seeing my father nods at him. ‘Okay but only for a moment.’

‘Thank you.’ I hurriedly go inside. There I saw my grandparents, with so many tubings and machines attached to them. I can’t help but to feel angry to the person who done this to them. Reports said that they were shoot while having their morning coffee in their house’s porch. After hearing the news from one of my closes friend at school I dashes towards the hospital. And now here I’ am, not knowing what to do.

I hug my father. ‘Who did this to them dad?’

‘I still don’t know darling. The authorities were conducting a thorough investigation and anytime soon they will able to tell us who are behind this.’

I just nod at my father for fear I might break my sobs.

‘Is that you princess?’ my grandma asks upon hearing my voice.

‘Come here princess.’ It is my grandpa.

I smiled at myself. They both call me ‘princess’ for the reason that I’m their only grandchild. And also when I was young I love to become a princess just like any other little girls dreams. So they called me princess and I guess I was stuck from then on.

I first took a deep breath and wipes the tears that had fall from my eyes and slowly walks towards them. Mom stands up from the seat that is at the center of the two beds my grandparents occupied and give me a quick peck on my cheek. I kiss both of their cheeks before I seated to the chair my mother evacuated. ‘How are you guys feeling? Ethan told me everything.’ I said holding both their hands.

‘You miss your class?’ ask me grandma. I just nods at her and squeezes her hand telling her it is okay. ‘That is not okay!’ she said as if reading my mind. ‘I thought you like it-’

‘It is okay grand. Ethan will arrange everything and besides I’m quick in making up my missed lessons.’ I reassured her. ‘How are you feeling?’

‘Princess we are tired-’ my grandfather started.

‘Don’t say that grandpa!’ I cut his sentence before he could finish. ‘You both promise me that you WILL attend my graduation.’

Hi shook his head. ‘Honey, some promises we can’t-’ he is cut by a sound that keeps on increasing.

‘Code blue!’ someone shouted behind me. On instinct I look for the source of the sound. To my aghast it came from my grandmother. She’s having a flat line! I started my paced to help my grandmother but my grandpa stops me.

‘Let her be princess. Your grandma is tired already and she needed to rest. I also want to rest.’ He said with a smile. ‘We both love you…’

‘No grandpa!’ I shouted as I look at his line started to flatten. ‘Grandpa!’

I feel the pain in my head from the memory. Two bullets pierced his lungs that cause his death. My grandmother dies because of the medication she taken before the shooting incident happen. That day she got flu she self medicate a medicine that is protein bounded that is impossible for OR team to do operation on her. Her liver collapsed causing her hepatomegally, her liver enlarges. Although she had been shot but no major organs had been hit. She could survive, but she didn’t.

I shouted because the pain I felt earlier keeps on increasing. ‘Leigh…’

‘What happens?’

‘Please, I don’t want it here!’ I shouted as another hideous memory flashes at me.

‘Mom, dad please don’t leave me alone. I still need you. Please.’

‘Leigh! I don’t want in here!! Get me out here!’ I shouted and start to get out of the bed. I felt a shout of pain so without a choice I lay down but I start to remove the tubings that attached to my body and also the leads of the cardiac monitoring. Immediately the monitoring becomes noisy, indicating that the patient is having a flat line.

‘Avie… Avie, listen what’s going on?’ ask Leigh as he tries to stop me.

I struggle. ‘I don’t want here.’

‘What’s happening here Mr. Thompson?’ one staff ask Leigh. She might hear the cardiac monitoring ad thinking that I might be dead or she is scandalized by my shouts. This is after all the Intensive Care Unit.

‘I don’t want here!’ I shouted at the nurse.

‘But you just woke up from a coma and you needed to be here.’ She explains to me nicely.

‘I don’t care. It doesn’t matter! All I want is to leave this place.’

‘Prepare the Medolazepam.’ She instructed her colleagues.

‘I don’t need an anti- anxiolytic! All I need is to be out here.’ I said stubbornly at them.

The two nurses exchanges looks at each other. ‘But you need it to relax Ma’am.’

‘Avie, look at me.’ He said as he puts both of his hands on my cheeks and turns me towards him. ‘You needed that medication- wait listen to me first.’ He said as I shook my head vigorously. ‘You just came out from coma and you needed it. We could talk later okay?’

I haven’t given him an answer because after he finishes his sentence my lids were so heavy that I can’t keep it open. Seconds later, I fall into a dreamless sleep.

‘Thank you for your help sir.’ the nurse said to Klive. ‘She is sure something.’ She commented.

‘Something and intelligent.’ Another nurse commented. She was the one infusing the anti- anxiolytic to Avie’s IV line.

‘What do you mean by that?’ Klive ask curiously at her.

‘It is the first time that I’ve ever encounter that a patient in her hysteric moments can able to know the classification of Medolazepam, the drug that I had transfuse to her a while ago.’

Yeah she’s right. How Avie does know about the drug? Klive ask himself.

It is mid morning that Avie wakes up and finds out that she’s still in the ICU. To that she immediately broke into tears.

‘Hey why are you crying?’ he ask me softly as if it pains him to see my crying.

‘I don’t want in here Leigh.’ I said in between my sobs.

‘But why so? You need to be here.’

‘I can stay in the ward or the semi private room… anywhere but not here. I don’t want it here! A lot of memories keep on haunting me when I’m in the ICU. Please Leigh.’

Klive remembers something that Mrs. Henrich told him. ‘Her grandparents die when she turns 20 and two years after that her parents- I mean her dad die without giving her time to cope up with her grandparent’s death. Three years after the incident, I can say little by little she had moved on but just four months ago, someone special to her also died…’

He sighs. ‘Okay. I’ll arrange that for you okay? But for now, stop crying. I hate it when you cry.’ He said to me and smile at me so sweetly.