Waterbed

KIM

I slowly open my eyes and I realize that we have slept until it is almost noon. I realized that we didn't have a lot of sleep these couple of days and rest should be our first priority. I can not believe how every muscle aches in my body but on the other hand, I surely did not treat my body the way it was supposed to be treated.

I can not believe that I treated myself so badly because of something that's not even my fault. I can not help that I was brought into this world. I can not help not being wanted by my own mother and I can't most definitely, not help that Angie decided to tell me about it when she did.

It was my turn to make her feel bad but she, so cleverly, turned it all around so that I can be the one that feels bad. I can not help as I replay that scene in my head over and over again. She said it with so much anger in her eyes and it makes me wonder what I have done to deserve it.

It is funny that I can go through a bombing and not give it a second thought but when my sister says something like that, I fall over the edge. I definitely have a few screws loose and I can not afford to go into that kind of despair again.

I turn to look at this man lying beside me and I think what have I done to deserve him. He has been nothing but kind to me ever since I have met him. He has treated me like a princess and nothing was ever too difficult or hard for him to handle around me.

He deserves so much more than what I have been giving him these past few days. I should start treating him the way that he treats me. I try to stand up slowly but then I realize for the first time that the honeymoon suite has a water bed.

How else will it be, if not in a motel in a small town but to have a waterbed? As I move around I wake Nick up without intentionally doing it. I wanted him to sleep a bit more and then I could have brought him some breakfast in bed. But of course, the water bed has its ways.

Then I lay down and just smile at him as I watch him wake up.

"Hmm...Oh gosh…but you are beautiful? I would love to wake up like this every day of my life…"

I love that his first words in the morning are something that soothes a hungry soul like my own. He always knows exactly what to say to make me feel like one of a kind.

"I would definitely not mind waking up to a handsome man like yourself. So, what do you say, fiance, let's make our wishes come true?"

NICK

I haven't had such a good night's sleep like I had last night. I can feel that I was completely exhausted about all the things that happened yesterday and even my mission before. But when I wake up in the morning and smell her scent of honey and vanilla that is enough to make my life worth living.

My life has completely changed the moment I asked her to marry me. And I can not describe the feeling that I feel when she says that I am her fiance. It's a better feeling than knowing that I have completed a mission or that I might get the Medal of Honor.

Nothing comes close to that feeling. I pull her in closer towards me and then I kiss her and make sure she knows that she is mine.

"How did you sleep, doc?"

"I can not remember when last I had such a good night's sleep and you?"

"It was one of the best nights, especially now that you said that we can make our wishes come true to wake up next to each other each day…"

We share a moment of laughter and just cuddle in each other's arms. Then there is a knock on the door. I want to get up to answer the door but then I remembered that I am not allowed to walk on my leg just yet. I also feel her hand on my chest as she pushes me down and gets up herself.

KIM

"You know that you should stay off your leg. It's probably room service"

I get up and throw a robe over me and walk to the door. When I open the door I can not believe the nerve of this woman.

"I don't think that you must be here"

I want to close the door but she stops it with her hand, while she says.

"Please, honey, let me just explain"

I close the door even further but I can hear her say, as I close the door.

"...I will be waiting for you in the coffee shop downstairs until you are ready to talk..."

I stand against the closed door and just close my eyes. Then I feel as Nick is right beside me holding me tight.

"I am so sorry, doc. I should have opened the door. Was it your mother?"

I just nod my head as I am afraid that I might cry if I say something. He takes me by my waist and then leads me back to the bed and then he says in the most gentle voice.

"Doc, you haven't told me what happened to you yet? You haven't told me why I found you in the middle of the forest, ice-cold?"

Suddenly, I realize that he has gone through almost just as much trauma as I did. I realize that if I had to see him lying in a little ball all curled up in the middle of a cold forest, I would feel completely devastated.

"I am so sorry, Nick. I never meant to do all those things to you"

"Doc, I don't care about what you did to me but I care about what other people did to you. Please, tell me what happened?"

I leave his embrace and then I tell him the entire story of what happened to me. I watch as it goes through the different emotions that I went through but at the end, I see anger residing in his eyes.

"I knew she was trouble from the beginning! I just knew that she was going to hurt you! I knew it and I left you…I wasn't there for you. I am so sorry"

I quickly take his hand and then looks deep into his eyes.

"This is not your fault and, don't, not for one second, think it is yours. It was Angie's fault. Nobody else's fault"

NICK

I can not believe how brave this woman has become right before my eyes. This life-changing event happened in her life and here she is saying all the right words. Then I guess she is ready for what I am about to tell her next.

"Doc, I think you need to go and listen to your mother's explanation..."

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