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I closed my eyes, letting out a heavy sigh. Every day had been so monotonous. So stressful and suffocating. Lying in an old bed in a fancy hospital, with various wires sticking into my skin, pulling in substances that would help my body, was exhausting.

Alisha stayed in the hospital for seven days.

I had never felt such an eternal week, every hour sounded like an eternity and I feared I would freak out at the great possibility of developing a different version of me, with so much time available the most twisted nonsense surfaced making camp for hours that I didn't even dare to sleep.

On the seventh day I left the sheets, getting out of bed I approached the window attracted by curiosity, picked up the curtain and found to my surprise that Louis was entering the parking lot driving his black sports car. That was the only comfort I had.

We would stay talking for hours about us, life and any triviality that would make us laugh so hard that we would want to go to the bathroom because we w