19. Jessie

Two weeks. That's how long it's been since Jericho fell into a coma. Two weeks of constantly wondering if he'll wake up and hoping that he'll wake up. Two weeks of watching the heart monitor beep and the ventilator pump air into his lungs. Two weeks of watching his chest rise and fall with each pump of air. Two weeks of watching his eyes closed with no signs of opening. Two weeks of knowing that the person who donated his heart was a fallen soldier who died during combat. Two weeks of knowing the family he left behind. In those two weeks, Princeton and I have become great friends with Staff Sargent Eric Ramos, a 21 year old energetic and talented man with a heart of gold that always put those he cares for before his own needs. His fiancée, a beautiful young girl with platinum blond hair and hazel green eyes told us about Eric and the way he was before and after the army.

Elizabeth, Eric's fiancée was five months pregnant with their second child when news struck about his death. I had