Chapter 14

I was just staring at the ceiling while mom and dad are talking to me. I decided not to talk and I don't want them to bother me so I closed my eyes and recalled everything I remembered. Dad didn't say anything when I asked why Midnight died but I already guessed that he died that night of our accident.

"I want to go home" I said when I opened my eyes. I looked at them emotionless.

"I need to go home" I said and removed the needle on my hand.

"you are still not allowed to go home sweetie" my dad said and tried to stop me from removing my dextrose but I already removed it.

"I don't care. I want to go home" I said and tried to stand up but he held my shoulders and pushes me back to bed.

"let's wait for Dra. Ana. She'll be back any minute now." He said.

"I'll talk to her through the phone" I said and tried to escape from his grip but my mom shouted that made me froze.

"stop being hard headed for once and listened to us." she shouted that made me gaped at her. "you think we like seeing you there on that hospital bed? We don't, but we doesn't have a choice, you need to obey your doctor's orders so that you'll be discharge soon. I know that you are hurt but going home won't solve anything" she added calmly and sat at the chair near my bed. She held my hand and stare at my eyes.

"let's wait for Dr. Ana and I'll be the one to ask here to let you go home if that's what you really want." She said that made me sigh. I lay down and closed my eyes which I regretted.

As soon as I closed my eyes, I found myself on the same room where I went during the session with Dr. Anna. Being here feels like a torture to me. It made me feel like I'm still kept in the dark, trying to escape but always failing. I cannot feel anything, I feel numbed.

I can hear Midnight's voice, I can hear him calling out my name, laughing, giggling, joking, teasing me but I couldn't find him. I saw someone at the table from a far but I couldn't get in there.

When I woke up I touched my cheeks that are wet due to the tears falling from my eyes. I saw mom packing my things.

"can I go home now?" I asked after wiping off my tears.

"yes, but you should update Dr. Ana from time to time and if your head hurts again, you need to come and see her so she can check on you personally." she said and went towards me to hand me a water.

"what do you want to eat?" she asked but I just shook my head.

"I just want to go home"

"you'll be staying at our house. Your father and I already talked about this" she said using her final tone.

"I don't want to" I said firmly.

"then, you'll stay here." She said and shrugged that made me shook my head in disbelief.

"alright but I'll come home to my unit after 3 days."

When I looked at my hands there is no dextrose so I guessed they didn't put it back when I fell asleep.

"your dad is just settling the bill you can change your clothes now so we can go home when your father settled the bills." She said and handed me my clothes.

When I got out of the bathroom, dad is already there.

"can we go now?" I asked him and he nodded.

"I already bought your medicines, we need to eat first before going home so you can take it already."

"I'm not starving" I said and grab my phone.

"but you still need to eat." He said that made me sigh and chose not to talk back.

When we got to the car I plugged my earphones and looked at the view outside. I can remember the night where Midnight introduces me to his family, how they welcomed me, how they smiled at me. I felt guilty for no reason but I want to find them and say that I'm deeply sorry for not remembering them, especially Midnight, earlier.

"we are here. Come on" I heard dad said and opened the door for me which reminded me of how gentleman Midnight is.

"thanks dad" I simply said and unplugged my earphone. When I looked at the restaurant infront of us, it's the restaurant owned by Seb.

"did you know that Seb owned this place?" I asked that made them both, stopped.

"Seb owns this p-place?" my mom asked nervously.

"yes. But it's fine, let's go" I said and went inside. I can hear them calling my name but I didn't look back.

I looked for a vacant table and saw near the window so I walked towards there and waited for my parents.

"let's go somewhere else" mom said and grabbed my hand.

"mom, don't worry about Seb. He won't talk to me so stop thinking that we'll bump into him, he'll just ignore us anyway." I said and smiled a little.

I looked outside to watch the people. Some are frowning, liked the world's weight is on their shoulder. Some were smiling nonstop like they received the good news that they are looking forward for. Some were just emotionless but looked tense. Everyone looked different, they have their own battles, and I don't have the right to compare my problems to them but I can't help it.

"what do you want?" I heard dad asked. When I got back to y senses, that's when I noticed that there is already a waitress getting our orders.

"I'll just have a Frikadellen Broetchen burgers with extra cheese and a iced chocolate coffee." I said after looking at the menu.

While we are waiting for our food no one dared to talk. We are just silently waiting, I'm pretending to look at my phone but the truth is I'm just observing my parents.

I can saw that mom is looking around nonstop while dad is trying to calm here while holding her hands.

When our food came I tried to look for the pickles because I'm allergic to them and it is stated at the menu that there are pickles included. No one knew that I'm allergic to pickles aside from Midnight and Seb.

"excuse me but there is no pickles here" I said to the waitress that is still arranging our foods.

"sorry about that ma'am, I'll get you a new one" she said and returned the burger in the kitchen. I'm just confirming something. Minutes later she came back.

"I'm sorry maam but we ran out of pickles. Do you want to change your order?" she asked politely but I shook my head.

" what's the name of the chef that prepared my burger?" I asked that shocked her.

"the o-owner ma'am. One of our chef's had an emergency so the owner had to take care of some of the orders. We will just give you a discount, sorry about the pickles." She apologized and bowed slightly that made me chuckle.

"don't worry about it. i was just asking and no need for a discount. Thank you" I said and smiled at her..

When she left, I just stared at the burger infront of me and smiled slightly .

"what are you doing?" I asked Seb when I got into their kitchen.

"oh you're here? Where's Midnight?" he asked still busy at what he's doing. I walked towards him and looked at his laptop.

"he needs to run some errands for his father, what's that?" I asked pointing at his laptop.

"I'm trying to cook Frikadellen Broetchen patties." He said aand smiled at me.

"really? You are trying to cook?" I asked him that made him smile proudly.

"of course. Remember, I want to have my own restaurant" he said that made me smile.

"you can do it. I'll try that so make sure that, that is delicious."

"alright maam. For now, sit back and relax" he said that made me chuckle. I went to the bar counter and read my notes while waiting for him to finish.

Minutes later he walked towards me while pulling a trolly where he puts his burger.

"is that it?" I excitedly asked and removed my notes at the top of the table.

"yes ma'am, bon apetite" he said and put the plate infront of me.

I smelled it first and it smells heavenly. When I first bite it the flavours exploded on my mouth. But seconds later I feel like my body is itching.

"why are your cheeks red? I didn't put hot sauce in that" he asked but still handed me a glass of water.

"it's itchy" I said and scratches my arms.

"why? Are you allergic on something?" he asked histerically and that's the scene that Midnight saw. I'm crying while scratching my body and Seb crying with me because of panic.

"you are allergic to pickles. You didn't know?" the doctor asked and I just shook my head.

"I don't like look of pickles so I really don't eat them." I answered and he nodded. Alright from now on, watch what you eat and avoid pickles as much as you could" the doctor said and left the room.

"I'm sorry, I didn't know" Seb said that made me chucke.

"it's fine. it'snot your fault atleast I discovered that I'm allergic to pickles. Please don't tell my parents that I got hospitalized, they will surely ground me. okay?" I said and offered my fist to midnight and seb who nodded at me and bumped their fist with mine.