Final Chapter : Awakened Nightmare
The sun shone brightly into Simon's eyes. He awoken and rubbed his eyes with his hands. His eyes have been red from all the crying he did, and the rubbing made it worse. "Stop that !" someone said in a distance. It startled Simon at first but when his vision cleared, he saw what he thought was his imagination. Nikki has woken up from the coma! Simon was filled with excitment, he shouted in joy, "Nikki you're finally awake! I've waited ages for you to wake up and finally..." The pale girl interuppted, "Wait , I think you've mistaken, I'm not Nikki and I think you better go before my parents come in and mistake us as couples, they're extremely strict about me and relationships."
Everything seemed in chaos at that time for Simon. There were so many emotions pent up in his mind at that single instantaneous moment that he felt he was drowning. That girl in the same old white bed is Nikki! She looked exactly like her but maybe thats just the wrong person.
After an awkward moment of silence, the doctor in charge of Nikki's operations came in to check on her. He exclaimed that her recovery was indeed a mircale that happened overnight. He also stated that she has lost some parts of her memories and most of them are recent ones. Simon was extremely depressed when he heard that, but at the same time he was very delighted that Nikki finally woke up. He felt so confused, wondering what to do.
After the doctor left, Nikki's parents came in at the same time. They looked much better then before almost as if a heavy burden was lifted off their shoulders. They smiled at Simon and told Nikki that he was a friend of hers but she didn't had a clue what her parents were talking about. She was very happy and had a very big smile on her face because her father had told her that they were going to United States for a year long vacation. Upon hearing the news, Simon broke down unexpectedly because he couldn't handle the fact that Nikki was going to be away for a year.
Simon walked away hurriedly to the toilet, covering his face and pride along the way as well. Love pricked his fragile heart, leaving a deep scar in it. It would probably take years for Simon to forget it, but whatever happened already did and all he wanted was to wish for someone to tell him a way to make her stay but he knew that was nothing that could make her stay. It seemed so awkward for him to be around her now, because she didn't even know him anymore. All those memories that were shared among them were now all left to him alone to reminisce.
Simon returned to Nikki's room soon after and spoke to her after her parents left to get her some snacks. "Nikki, I really love you and I really do hope you remember me, afterall we were once the happiest couples ever." said Simon in a confident tone, hoping she would remember everything once again. But Nikki simply replied in an irritated tone, "The girl you want me to be is nothing but a mere memory, I'm no longer the Nikki you seek. Now if you will, please leave me alone, I have to get some rest because my head is starting to hurt." The girl covered her face with her blanket and lay down on her bed, with a smirk on her face.
All those words that she said, helped in breaking Simon's bleeding heart into pieces. As tears flowed down continuously, Simon had no choice but to leave her alone. He dragged his miserable feet across the cold concrete floor back to his ward. At that moment, all he thought about was to end his life - which was Nikki but when she left his life, it was almost as if she took a knife to stab Simon right in the middle of the heart. He stumbled and fell along the way back to his room because he was too busy thinking about the disaster that has just happened to him. He looked up and saw an illusion of Nikki helping him up. He smiled and held out his hand to approach her, only making him fall harder this time. This time it became clear to him.
It's over.
Whatever that happened in the past is history, nothing but memories which could never be retrieved. All that was built up within the past few weeks, was destroyed within a single day, a single hour, a single minute. He's done all he could, he tried but theres no more chances for him to grab. All the opportunities were gone since the day this nightmare had awokened. Simon shooked from the pain in his head, his pillow was soaked from all his tears. Everything fell apart, he couldn't fix it, even with the greatest remedy of all, time. He thought they could last forever, he thought it wasn't over, but now he can be assured that everything he once had,has already vanished as though it had never happened. All he could do now, was wait for this neverending nightmare to end.
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