Missed you

DAWN'S POV

"Thank you for everything, for being here with me, I don't know what really made you appear in my life, but I'm glad you did. And I wanted to tell you that I lo...,"

'Wait!, what was I about to say?, that I love him, he'll freak out, Oh my gosh!!, I almost embarrassed myself.'

Taking a deep breath, I corrected myself, "I look forward to our future together"

'Well, that wasn't a lie, I do really look forward to our future together

Especially if he finds out who I'm about to show him'

With that thought, I took Chris' hand and dragged him inside, excitement and happiness bubbling in me, because of who I wanted to meet. It's been years, 12 years to be precise.

"Now, I want you to meet someone very important ", I said still dragging his hand inside

We walked inside the mansion, it was very quiet, like really quiet, and would have been dark, if it isn't for the little light bulbs lighting the whole house, We climbed the long stairs, walked the passageway and finally came to a room.

I raised my hand to knock the door, but I couldn't

'What if it was all a lie?, what if aunt Laura is being threatened, and forced to lie'

I couldn't bring myself to open the door, and discover that it was all lies

I took a step back from the door, when I felt strong hands wrapped around my waist. I immediately calmed down

Switching back to Nathaniel's pov

"I know that the gears in your head are turning in the wrong direction", he said, before giving me a kiss on my forehead, "but remember, your aunt can never lie to you, she'd die instead of lying to you, so just trust her, and show me the surprise you have for us, okay?", I said bringing our faces together, before kissing her lightly

She nodded, and mouthed a thank you. I didn't hear her voice but I knew she really meant it

'I really hate seeing her so discouraged and distrustful, she's already controlling my emotions'

She raised her hand, and knocked the door this time around, and her aunt opened the door

I could see that she had cried a lot, her eyes were red and wet, but I could still see that she was really happy

She hugged Dawn the minute she opened the door, Dawn also hugged her aunt back, but pulled back when her aunt started crying again

"She won't be happy that we're crying like this, but I'm sure it's tears of happiness", Dawn said trying to stop the aunt's tears

"Come in now", her aunt opened the door wider for us to enter. We walked inside the extremely large room, and there, a woman was sitting on a king sized bed, her hand was connected to an IV drip, and there were tubes passing in Oxygen into her nostrils

I looked at Dawn, and saw that she was crying, covering her mouth tightly with her two hands, like she was trying to stop her voice from being heard

"I-it's true, y-you, y..you're awake, y-you're here, l-looking a-at me, I-i can s-see your eyes, i-i r-really can see them", she stuttered out her words, moving closer to the woman on the bed

The woman too was crying, even if she wasn't saying anything,

Dawn sat beside the woman, on the bed, and took a strand of the woman's hair, dropped it, touched the woman's face, eyes, nose, lips, "i-it's really n-not a dream, i-it's really you, I'm n-not dreaming. If..if it's a dream, i-i don't w-want to wake up"

Her aunt sat on the other side of the bed, holding and rubbing the woman's hand.

I just stood like the confused person I was, with lots of questions ringing in my head

'Who is this woman?

Why does she look familiar, like I've seen a picture of her, or something like that...'

More cries broke me from my thoughts, it was Dawn's. "Why did you take so long?", this time around, she found her voice, and was able to talk clearly

"It has been 12 years, y-you should have tr-tried harder. You should have woken up earlier. I really missed you, and now, I'm scared that you'll leave me again"

She looked at the woman's IV connected hand, and tried to say something, but stopped when more tears started filling her eyes again, hurting in the process, making me look very useless

I badly wanted to go and take her up in my arms, kiss her until she forgets everything that makes her sad

Dawn looked at the woman, then at her aunt, "why isn't she talking?"

Her aunt sighed, "it's been 12 years since she last spoke Dawn, the doctor said it will take a little while before she finds her voice again, but we can be certain that she is well and okay"

Dawn nodded and looked at the woman again, "no problem", she said, holding the woman's hands. "You have to make it up to me, you have to really make it up to me in full folds. And you must never leave me again. I'll be the girl you want me to be, I'll do everything you want me to do, d-don't...., don't just leave me again", she finished

The woman drew her closer, and hugged her, both of them,.. okay the three of them started crying

"I'm sorry mum, it's all my fault. If I had only listened to you, all of this wouldn't have happened"

'Her mum!!, oh my gosh!!!'