88-Goodbye

Justin Deluca pov

I still remember. I ran like a madman out of the mansion. My friends had to control me. Keith and Terry wanted to make me relax but I wanted to reach my kitten.

Granny and Sarah convinced me to straightaway reach the hospital. Upon reaching there, we came to know her two friends had already expired on the spot. The closest friend Evelyne had minor injuries as she went out to get the commercial pack of mayonnaise.

Ashley’s orphanage friend, Aniya had reached there in no time.

Poor Evelyne was crying nonstop along with fighting the new horror that she could lose Ashley too just like she lost Elijah and Sam in the blink of an eye.

And Ashley? She had slipped into a coma. She was lucky to survive the serious head injury. I was requested not to enter her room by my family and doctors, but nobody could stop me from meeting my

kitten.

She was lying there quietly with a few wraps here and there.

I forgot that I needed to change my clothes or had to shave. Even I could no longer remember that I

needed to visit the bathroom. Ha–ha.

For two days, I stayed by that bedside, sitting on that uncomfortable chair, holding her hand that I didn’t want to let go at any cost. Not even when the doctors used to visit her for check–ups.

By the end of the second day, the doctor gave me hope. Her body, at last, had started reacting to the

medicines.

I slipped into a deep sleep

shaking my shoulder to wake me up. I straightened scratching

“Granny?”

hair, “For the past few

started shaking my head. I didn’t want to leave her

tube was

Granny placed her feeble hand on my shoulder, holding it I touched my lips to it and looked up to

She will be alright. She is a fighter.” I knew in my heart that my Ashley was a lioness.

My lioness.

I know she will ace it. Once she does. You need to

look into her eyes,

know son. I know. If you want her to enjoy her life, then you need to let her go. It’s just

She is not a toy. She is a normal human. What to tell her? That hey, Ash. I know you need me after this accident. But I need to stay away from you for some fu*ckin curse? She

back her baby hair that

the door, “You do need to choose if you

just being practical. And then in a matter

had to let her

Sweetheart! How would I live without you?” I felt tears cascading down my cheeks, “How

beside her, taking her in my arms. I showered her face with small kisses, brushed her hair gently with

I told her to stay strong. Just like a lioness. And then right before I

my lioness. You will make it to the other side. But Ashley. I am not the strong one. I won’t be able to make it. What would I do without you, love.”

five days of my life were spent in Arguli, and the worst five days of my life

I felt her hand shaking. That moment was the one when I cried and laughed at the same time.

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