The Perfect Stranger

Chapter 4: Lizzie

She notices and says that she will give me a minute. She turns to leave the room, signaling for Jackson to make his way back into the room. My first thought is great, now this perfect stranger is going to see me crying because I don’t think I can hold the tears in any longer. The dam is going to break and the tears will come cascading down my cheeks. I’m expecting to see him come running into the room and hug my face to his chest because I’m so upset. I let out all my tears onto his chest, soaking his nice shirt. I let out all of my emotions from the last couple of days. I’ve been through more emotion in the last hour of waking up from this coma than I have since I was ten years old when my parents divorced. But, instead I am greeted with absence.

Hmm. I should expect this. I mean, I’ve only known this man for only the past hour, if that, of my life. Nurse Dixie turns back to me, a look of confusion on her face. One that must match the confusion on my face. I shouldn’t be surprised. It would honestly be too good to be true if he was to reappear in the doorway. “I guess he must have went for a walk,” she says. “He’s probably so overwhelmed that you’re finally awake. You know, he’s the one that called the ambulance and rode with you here. According to the other nurses, he was a wreck when you came in and then super pissed when your family couldn’t make it in to see you. Nurse Anne said that he seems like either the perfect stranger or the perfect nightmare.” She looks at me and sighs. “With a face like that though, I wouldn’t care either way. Any who, I’ll let you take in everything and I’ll be back in an hour to check on you. If you need anything at all just press the nurse call button. It goes straight to the nurse’s station.”

Finally, with a bittersweet smile, she turns and leaves the room, closing the door all the way behind her. All the pain from my asshole ex-fiancee and my sleazy ex best friend come pouring out. Along with the mixed emotions from finding out I was hit by a car. Now on top of everything else, I am eight weeks pregnant. The tears just come streaming out of my eyes. It feels like I’ve been crying for forever and there is still more to come. How could this be my life right now? How can I really feel like this right now? Who is this prefect stranger and why has he left me here all alone? How did my life end up like this?