Fall in love and other problems

Chapter 16: "A date?"

1 week later

   I had to stay in hospital for four days with constant studies, but I am already at home, sleeping in my bed and eating food made by my mother. I also had to do but I already turned in, some jobs in the institute of absolutely all subjects, physical education included, because of what happened and the time that I missed, which was a lot. Surprisingly, we are going to graduate on Friday, which I still can't believe, and Saturday is the big graduation party that I'm very, very excited about.

   Hearing the noise of the door opening distracts me from my thoughts and I find a pretty smiling Cameron, I smile back at him. I still don't believe that he's here with me.

But it is so get used to it.

   I know, luckily I know.

   By the way, I've been living with my parents again since I left the hospital. It is more than clear that I was not prepared to live alone, I know I need company and also now that we know, I want to take care of my mother during her 9 months of pregnancy, I actually think she has 8 months left but hey, I want to be with her. I also have to wear a boot because my ankle is still bad but then my body hurts a little but nothing that I can't bear.

"Hello Sari, how are you doing?"

"Well, I guess better" I answer. "Come, sit down for now I am not biting" he laughs and so do I.

"I wanted to ask you something" Cameron sits next to me on the bed and I nod as if to say yes, let him ask me the question he wants to ask me. "Do you want to go to the graduate dance with me?" I hesitate a moment and he gets half nervous from what I see. "I mean, if you don't want to, there's no problem but ..."

"Yes" I answer as normal as I smile happily. "Obviously I want to go to the graduation party with you Cam".

Just happy? You are practically dying of love.

   Well, and that's why I'm very, very, very, very happy.

"I also wanted a date with you" is this really happening?

Do not faint.

   I'm not 100% sure if I could avoid it.

Answer her normal.

   Normal?

Quiet.

   Well here we go with the quiet attempt

"I'd like to go on a date with you Cami" I did.

You did it ... you managed not to look crazy.

   Oh well thank you very much, that was more than a compliment.

"Thanks, it's tonight by the way" he finishes saying that and runs off as if it were a flash from the room.

"Coward!" I scream laughing, but I realize that all my things are in my apartment, I still haven't had a way to bring things from there so clearly they are still there. "Daddy! Handsome daddy?"

"What happens?" he asks, agitated to run up, I'm almost sure he thought something had happened to me, they are all alert with that but nothing is going to happen to me so I have no idea why they act that way.

"Today I have a date with Cameron," he looks at me narrowing his eyes but then he smiles at me; "and I might need to go to my apartment because I still have almost everything there. So ... could you take me?" he nods reluctantly. "I love you dad".

"Me too princess, me too".

   For now I am not allowed to use the bike, and I don't think it's bad because last time I didn't finish very well. It also adds to the fact that I have a boot around my ankle so less I could use it less.

Cami: I'll pick you up at 8 am.

Me: Come on!

Me: But come to find me in my apartment !!!

Cami: Why?

Cami: You shouldn't be there ...

Me: I know it

Me: But it's because I have all my things still there so dad is about to take me

Cami: Ok .. so I walk by for 8 hours.

   Around 7 P.M. I go to bathe, which by the way, it was so nice to take a bath once they left me in the hospital, being in a coma was dirty and horrible… and dirty again.

You say it as if you had a choice.

   I know, but it was, it was really dirty but hey, it's over and that's it.

   Once I get out of my bath, I dry my hair well so that I don't even have a wet strand so I can iron it later. I wear a short light pink dress that Cameron actually gave me for a birthday, and some butter-colored heels to match. I was never very into dresses but I love this one and that is why he gave it to me.

Cami: Hello

Cami: I'm down

Cami: So whenever you want ...

Me: Hi Cam

Me: I don't know if I want to go

Cami: No what?

Cami: Good as you want

Cami: Tell me

Me: How can I not want to go?

Cami: And I don't see

Cami: Well come down then

   I grab my keys, my cell phone and my wallet, and as I go downstairs I can't stop laughing, I can't help it, how can he believe that I don't want to go on a date with him after all the time I've been in love?

What are you.

   That, I'm in love.

"You're bad" he talks as soon as I get in the car but he doesn't even look at me, which makes me laugh even more.

"I love you Cami" I hug him and this time he is the one who can't help it and laughs with me as he hugs me tighter.

"You are very beautiful Sari" he tells me once he sees me, it makes me blush but I hide it, why am I blushing? Dammit.

Maybe because you know that this time he is not telling you as friends.

   It's true, it must be that.

"Hello, Sara Harris going ashore" he says while he runs his hand over my face.

"I'm fine and thank you, you too Cami".

   On the date we go to a restaurant that we usually go to when we want to “disconnect” from the world. We spent it talking about what we had done in this time and how we have felt. I already promised him that from now on I will leave the parties and races, and I think that is more than clear because nothing good came of that, absolutely nothing. I'm going to change again, I propose, and this time I know it for the better, and I also have Cameron there with me to help me along the way.

"What are you thinking about?" Cam takes me out of my thoughts.

"Nothing" I smile at him.

"Well, I do. I really like you a lot for a long time" I look at him smiling.

"You to me too" I say.

"I take you home?" I shake my head, I don't want to, not yet.

"Let's go to the square for a while" he smiles and nods and then pay and go.

   Once we arrived, we sat down on the grass. Being at night there is no one, there is only a couple with two girls playing further away.

"Did you really listen to absolutely everything while you were in the hospital?" Cameron distracts me from my thoughts by asking me that question.

"Yes, everything, everything".

"And what do you think?"

"What do I think about what? What do I think about people in a coma? What do I think about the doctors talking while they think we are not listening? What do I think about what they told me? What do I think about reincarnation? Or what do I think about the puppies?" he laughs as I ask all the questions and see it, it causes me so much love.

"What I wanted to know was what do you think about what I, only I, told you" he speaks still laughing.

"I think that if we had talked, nothing would have happened, but remember that I always say that things happen because they had to happen so I don't know. What I do know is that I like that you are here, that I like to know that you are in love with me and I like that you know that I am in love with you. I know I want it to be Saturday so we go to the graduation party together. I also know that I love you and that I love that you are back, I know that I missed you a lot even though I did not say it at any time or have spoken to you".

"From what I see you know many things" he laughs and I do the same.

"Some" I answer.

"I missed you too, a lot. I wanted to tell you face to face, I wanted to see you and see me. You don't know how ugly, you don't know how horrible it felt to see you there, hospitalized with a respirator in your mouth and a lot of needles stuck, with things stuck to your chest and head. I couldn't bear to see you like that because of me, it was horrible" I caress his face to shut him up and interrupt him.

"It wasn't your fault, nothing was your fault. In any case, it could be their fault, but don't put all the weight on yourself because it wasn't, and let this stick in your head because I don't want to keep hearing you say it was my fault, did you hear me?"

"Yes ma'am. The good thing is that we are both here, in the same time and space".

"Ah the thing got philosophical".

"Leave me" he says while we both laugh.

   When I get home I throw myself on the bed with a huge smile, I can't believe it, I feel like a 12-year-old girl who has just been sent a little card saying “I like you”. But I swear I can't believe I just had a date with the person I've been in love with for years, I can't believe I had a date with who could be the love of my life.

Well don't get too excited either, we don't want disappointments.

   It's true, but I still can't help but be happy.