Chapter 15

Ivy’s POV

I sat beside him.

"You’ll be fine, for now, I’m here,” I said. He didn’t react, he was still unconscious. It’s been three days, sitting beside him. He doesn’t even open his eyes, let alone talk to me.

Doctors say that he is in a coma. He has no chance to wake anytime soon.

I don’t believe them.

I don’t trust them.

I know he’ll come back; and that too very soon.

He loves me, right?

That means he should come back when I ask him to. So why are you still lying numb? Why are you not talking? What’s missing?

“I love you… Andrew” I said before going out, as my usual routine. I met Edward sitting there. He looked at me with hope, when I just nodded in a no, silently.

“So, you wanna hear it now?” he asked me.

“Yes,” I said as we went out to the garden.

“Antonio or I should say the one who you know as J, he is AL or Andrew’s brother, and I’m the third brother,” he said.

“Wait. So, you’re telling me that Andrew’s brother kidnapped me?”

“Yes”

“And that they are enemies?”

“uh.. yes”

“And that you chose to quit the crime world when they didn’t?”

“Yes”

“Okay..” I said. 

So much information... 

His own brother was trying to kill him? Andrew, you’re so surprising. He was your own brother, you’re fighting with. Why are he and you so different? You’re good, then why is he bad?

“And, I guess.. something you should know about,” he said.

“Hm?”

“There was this girl, Sophia,” he said.

“Who?”

“Sophia,” he said. “Never bring his topic in front of him ever,” he said.

“What happened to her? Who’s she?” I asked.

“I can’t tell you much, I don’t know the reality,” he said. “But she is responsible for whatever we three are today,” he said.

Oh my, that gave me goosebumps.

“Oh,” I said, hiding the shock evident on my face. 

Who could she be?

“Now you should go,” he said. I went back to Andrew.

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It’s been a month.

Yes, A Fucking month.

He is lying on the bed as he has nothing to do with the world. I’m here like a maniac, when the doctors are saying.. you know what?

“We Don’t Have Hope”

Just go and rot your ‘no hope’ in hell. I know he’s gonna live. He will live. He will come back. I’m warning you Andrew if you won’t come back soon, I’m gonna beat the crap out of you!

“Ivy, come on..” my father spoke.

After everything happened, my father finally came to know I went here. I was treated with a serious scolding, but after knowing everything, he let me stay here, but on the condition, he will stay here too.

And that I will do whatever he says, as I’ve become way too careless.

And much more!!

Whatever, I will always be thankful that he understood me.

“No dad,” I said.

“come on. He.. he must not like you like this” he said.

Oh yeah. I haven’t slept for weeks. How does that matter? You! Andrew, it’s all your fault! Just come back already...

“Today you have to sleep or I will drug you into sleeping” this time it was Edward.

Oh actually, we have become quite friends in the last days. He comes to visit us once in a while.

“You’re not in the crime world, right?” I asked.

“Drugs are available to everyone,” he said. “Don’t force us to use that. Please sleep” he said.

“How can I sleep, Edward, just how? He is lying here unconscious. He won’t wake up. How can I sleep? I won’t get peace. I won’t get sleep”

“I’m sure he would want you to sleep,” he said.

“Now get up already!!” my dad yelled. I got up and went to the couch in front of the room.

“Not here!” he yelled.

“Please,” I said. He hesitated but accepted, anyway. I tried to close my eyes. Slowly sleep engulfed me. And I met the most beautiful person.

Andrew.

He came into my dreams.

“Take care, Ivy. You know what I need. Your peace and your love. I’ll be back, take care of yourself. I love you” and with that, I woke up.

“Wake up, it’s already 7 A. M.,” they said.

7 AM?

I thought that the dream just started???

Was he really there or just my imagination?

What happened just now!?

“Just I will definitely bring you back, Andrew. I will be fine, and you HAVE to come back, It’s my promise!” I promised.

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Nobody’s POV

Sometimes, we have to go through the worst, to get what we love. Or I should say mostly, we have to go through the worst.

Leaving the past behind is the most difficult task anyone could ever do. And that’s what Ivy tried to do. Moving on never meant to be over AL. It was moving over surrendering her to the darkness. She woke up. She woke up from that day.

Andrew wasn’t living, but he lived in her dreams. Every day, he used to come in her dreams, telling her to start a new day with new hope.

As for him, she was the bravest girl one could ever come across.

Apart from everything, she held herself together. She started gathering clues, shreds of evidence to prove AL's innocence. That was the least she can do for him. And she was ready, ready to face everything.

Every evening, she came back to Andrew, talked to him about the day, told him how much she missed him, and of course, told him that she loves him.

In her dreams, he comes back and tells her how much he misses her and how much he loves her.

She didn’t come to know if it was an illusion or did he really use to come in her dreams. But she believed in him. She believed in love.

She didn't lose hope in the last six months.

She was on the way back to the hospital when she received a call.

“Miss Ivy, Patient in ward number 761 has gained consciousness”