Dream State (Fairy Tales Reimagined Book 1) by Amy Briggs

Author:Amy Briggs [Briggs, Amy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-04-27T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

Jacob

It killed me to leave her alone in that hospital room again. Every time I left her there, a sadness filled me, leaving me wanting nothing more but to turn around and go back. Because of my work and sleep schedule, I didn’t often have time to meet up with my mom, just the two of us, and we’d scheduled dinner together in the city quite a while ago, so I couldn’t miss it. I also wanted to talk to her anyway; the last couple of days since Snow White had ended up in my ER, I’d changed. Things tasted better, the sun shone brighter, and I knew it was her.

My mom was someone I confided in, and I wanted to tell her how I was feeling to see if I was going crazy. I knew that a perfect stranger couldn’t possibly make me start to feel again, but then again, couldn’t they? I mean, why not, right? People were always meeting each other, so what if she didn’t actually know me? A part of me knew that I sounded like a lunatic, but another part of me believed in romance just enough to think that some things were meant to be. Some people’s paths were meant to cross. I hadn’t felt as alive as I had the last two days in as long as I could remember.

She would wake up eventually; I would see to that. And I’d find out who she really was. Even if she wasn’t meant to be a part of my life, she was certainly meant to pass through it. Nothing is coincidence, and the emotions she’d evoked within me were real, regardless of how curious they came to be. I’d already planned to talk to Dr. Somers the next day to see what he was thinking about her case and what direction he was looking to take in her care.

As I left her room, I turned back to glance over her one last time, watching the rise and fall of her chest as she breathed. She really did look like she was sleeping, not like she was sick or fighting anything inside of her. I furrowed my brows and chewed on my lower lip thinking about what on earth could be causing this slumber. I decided that after dinner, I’d get online and do some research to see what I could come up with.

My parents lived in the suburbs outside the city, so my mom was meeting me at a nice Italian restaurant downtown. We were simple folks when it came to most things; really a down home family, I’d say. But once in awhile, my mom and I liked to meet up in the city and have a fancy dinner together when my dad was out of town, and that’s exactly what we were planning to do that night. It was his annual trip to the woods with some of his college buddies he’d stayed in touch with all these years, and while I was always invited, camping wasn’t my thing.

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