Chapter 135: The Aftermath of Hope

“The operation went on successfully. But there's just one thing. We don't know when she's going to wake up. We tried everything we could do to make her open her eyes and come conscious. But she has been lying there unconscious ever since we finished the operation. Though the operation went successfully, we don't know what's going on in her brain. We don't know why she isn't waking up. We have to make her wake up on her own. Maybe if she hears voices from relatives like her mom or dad and the person she loves, a best friend. You guys should just keep on talking to her. I'm sure she will come around sooner or later.”

The mother looked at the doctor and was surprised.

“What are you saying? What do you mean she's unconscious? Is she in a coma? What do you mean she didn't wake up after the operation? I thought you said the operation was successful. Then why isn't she waking up? Why is she lying unconscious?”

The mother said exaggeratedly as the doctor tried to calm her down and explain things to her. But she wouldn't listen. She started shouting and crying at the same time.

“I just want my daughter to wake up! I don't care what you guys do. Just make her wake up! I can't afford to see my daughter lying there unconscious and lifeless. I thought you said the operation went on successfully. She's supposed to wake up! You can't tell me that my daughter is not going to wake up. I was very happy that it was successful. Once the operation was successful, I would see my daughter and get to talk to her again. I thought she would come back to her normal self and remember me and her dad!”

The mother shouted in desperation as Alex looked confused, and her father also looked confused. The doctor told them to just calm down, and she would come around sooner or later. Then he walked out of the room. The mother started crying as Isabella's dad held on to her.

“Please, sit down so that you can calm down a bit.”

Then immediately, Alex walked up to her and said,

“Isabella is going to be fine. I promise you. I promised that the operation was going to be successful. Now that it's successful, I'm very sure that she will overcome this and come around sooner or later.”

She immediately stood up and held Alex by his collar.

“You! I told you not to allow her to go through with this operation! I preferred my daughter when she... Even if she didn't recognize me and I died, I preferred her that way! At least I knew that she was safe and sound! Nothing was wrong with her. But now she's just laying there lifeless. She's unconscious. She can't even look at me and call my name. She can't even speak. She can't even open her eyes. She is more or less dead! I told you not to push through with this operation! I warned you that I didn't want anything to happen to my daughter! But now see what you have done! I'm almost on the verge of losing my daughter! The only daughter I have!”

She shouted at Alex. And Alex continued trying to comfort her, to make her calm down a bit. But she wouldn't listen. She kept on shouting in anger and frustration as she was crying at the same time. Isabella's dad held her and told her to calm down.

“No, I have to speak sense to him! Why? Why did you do all of this? Isabella was fine! Even without her memories, she was fine! At least she was okay! She was... She almost died before! And now she's lying there unconscious! She can't even speak to anyone! She can't even open her eyes! She can't even move her body! I told you not to push through with this operation! Now see what you have gotten all of us into! See what you put my daughter into! You just... You wanted to get her memories back so desperately that you had to make her go through an operation that you knew she might not come out alive!”

She said to Alex. As Alex felt frustrated, he didn't know what to say at that point anymore. And he couldn't even get to open his mouth to say anything. He just looked at her and let her grip him and hold on to his collar because he knew that he was at fault here. Everybody told him not to allow Isabella to go through the operation because they didn't know what the results would be. But he insisted that they go through with it, and he assured everyone that the operation was going to come out well.

Isabella’s father tried to calm her down.

“Please, sit down,”

he said, and she calmed down a bit. Then he stood up and fixed his gaze on Alex.

“If anything happens to my daughter, I promise you, you're going to spend the rest of your life in jail! If Isabella doesn't wake up from that hospital bed, you wouldn't like the repercussions!”

He said to Alex sternly and went back to Isabella's mother to continue comforting her. As Alex walked out of the waiting room in annoyance, he went to the doctor's office immediately and saw the doctor sitting down there looking into his laptop. As the doctor saw Alex walk in, he immediately stopped what he was doing and looked up at him.

“Oh, Mr. Alex, you are here. What happened? You told me it was a 50/50 chance, but since the operation was successful, why isn't she waking up? What's going on? Why is she unconscious?”

He said angrily to the doctor, but the doctor tried to calm him down and said to him,

“She's going to be fine. The only thing is that she's unconscious. Just for now, we just have to pray that she comes around quickly.”

He tried to convince Alex, but Alex wouldn't buy any of it.

“Do you know that her family is blaming me because I told them to push through with the operation? Now what do you want me to say to them? You told me that if the operation was successful, everything would be fine! And now that the operation was successful, why isn't she waking up?”

He said to the doctor, but the doctor couldn't  say anything anymore. He just kept silent.