265 Not even a little (1/2)

Abi's heart clenched in pain upon hearing those words. Her grip on the bed sheet tightened at seeing her family looking at each other in confusion. She lifted her face and looked at Kelly, but her best friend too, had the same curious look.

Silent tears began to roll down Abi's face. What? What happened? How did they not remember who Alex was? What was the meaning of this?

”Oh Abi, don't cry, dear… you should be happy right now. Your tumor is gone Abi,” her grandmother coaxed her as she rubbed her back.

”That's right, daughter, a miracle has happened. A miracle. Your mother must have been watching over you like a guardian angel.” Andrew said as he teared up.

Abi knew that they were right. She should be happy after hearing such news. If it was true that her tumor was completely removed, she didn't need to count her days anymore. She should be rejoicing at this moment to have been given a second chance at life, that the miracle she had asked for had actually been granted!

But how could she rejoice? How could she smile now, when...

Her eyes fell on her hands and her eyes widened.

”Where is it? Where is my ring?” she asked nobody in particular, as she looked around her in a slight panic.

”Ring? You don't wear rings, Abi,” Kelly told her, confused and worried as she looked at her best friend panicking. Her best friend was acting very strange and she was starting to worry.

Abi's lips began to tremble. She shook her head and looked around the room, still looking. Maybe someone had took it and put it down somewhere and had just forgotten to put it back on again. Her eyes swept the room and that was when she saw that familiar incense pot sitting on the table. She felt like her world stopped in that instant, as the realisation kicked in. She felt like her heart stopped beating and in the next moment, pain like she had never felt before flooded her entire being.

”No… no… how could you… how could you do this to me… You promised me! You promised me!!” she wailed, grabbing the shirt by her chest as if she wanted to clench her heart to make the pain go away.

She cried and cried until her body could no longer take it and she succumbed to sleep again. Her family and Kelly didn't know what was wrong. They had no idea who this Alex was or what the reason was for Abi's tears. They had no idea at all! They called and asked the doctors but even they didn't know why she was acting like that. They looked at the charts and their tests results and everything looked normal so they really had no idea why Abigail had acted that way.

Abi woke up in the middle of the night. She lay in bed and just stared out into the darkness, her eyes filled with pain and anger and longing.

Days went by and Abi was finally given the all clear to leave the hospital. She had asked to see Ezekiel Qin but she found out that he died just a day after her surgery. Kelly even showed her newspaper articles about the tragic plane crash that killed him. This news didn't make sense to her. She didn't believe that Ezekiel Qin would die so easily from that sort of accident.

When they arrived home, Abi immediately climbed up to her room. But to her dismay, the jellyfish aquarium wasn't there anymore and she saw the suitcase that she brought with her to Alex's mansion, sitting next to her bed.

With a heavy heart, she opened it and all her things were there, except for that little lamb plushy he had gifted her. All traces of him were gone. Everything that had anything to do with him was gone. There was nothing left. She knelt on the floor and cried again.

This pain was too much. It was unbearable. ”You promised me, Alex… you promised you would be there when I woke up! You promised me… you, liar!” she sobbed. ”Where are you? Come back, please…”

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