Song of the chapter: Thousand years. Pearl's POV: I kept looking at the door for a long time, unconsciously expecting Ryan to show up. Not that I wanted to meet him or anything like that, it was just that- he was so eager to visit again and looked so happy after having my permission. But he was a no show now and soon I'll be discharged from here, so where was he? Did he decide that he was done with going after me and all the apologising? Did he felt sorry at the first place? Guess I would never know. "Pearl, you are looking magnificent today." Benedict's voice shook me out of the trail of thoughts I was having right then. "Oh please, I'm in a hospital gown." I scoffed at him, and straighten. "You my girl, will manage to look beautiful even in a potato sack." Taking a seat beside my

