Waiting room blossom

Submitted into Contest #49 in response to: Write a story that takes place in a waiting room.... view prompt

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Tick tock- tick tock- 'Does that clock ever stop ticking?' ' I've been waiting here for along time...' I thought as I coughed up another petal. 'Why did I ever fall in love with her' My thoughts were getting scarier 'what if i died from this?' I coughed several petals this time. I took out my phone and opened the camera... the flowers were getting worse. "hanahaki disease; a disease, where the victim of an unrequited or one-sided love begins to vomit, or cough the petals or flowers of the flowering plant growing inside their lungs; if left untreated will cause the death of the victim." " the disease will only be cured if the victims love returns the feelings and tells the other; you can also get the plant removed but if you do all feelings for your once love will dissolve." I had already been diagnosed, I was just waiting for the surgery. I cried a little bit, the feelings I once had will never be there again, but i had to be strong. Otherwise I die. I coughed up another petal. 'Could the doctor take any longer?' By this point I could see heaven grazing my eyes " ms. Gray? Are you alright?" " MS. GRAY??? DOCTOR COME QUICK!!" " come quick" the last sentence I heard before I had passed out. When I woke up, i was in a meadow. With her... " hanna, please stay strong for me?" "Eleanor, what are doing here?" "You're stuck in a dream for now, but you're starting to die..." "As long as I'm here with you, I can die happy..." " hanna no. Stay alive for me.." " but when I wake up I won't love you anymore.." " that's better than you being dead. You're my bestfriend, I might not love you the way you love me. But I love you..." I woke up back in the waiting room. No doctor or nurse there. The while entire room was empty.... then I saw her. But now I'm not sure I loved her any more... I heard whispers in the distance. " doctor please tell me she's okay." " I'm sorry eleanor, we don't know if she'll make it through, we might have been too late." " you can't be serious, she has to be okay." " I'll leave you, to take this information in." 'What were they talking about?' 'Were they talking about me?' I ran up to eleanor. "I'm right here." She just walked right through me to a room. I followed her into it. She was looking over me... oh. That's why she couldn't see me... "Hanna if you can hear me, I'm sorry. I should have told you my feelings sooner now you've gone into a coma.." 'Did she just admit to loving me?" " hanna please I need you to wake up.." 'Wake up' 'Wake up' 'Wake up' I laid down on the spot where my unconscious  body lays. My eyes slowly drooping I fell into a deep sleep. I woke back up in the meadow. Eleanor no where to be seen... but this time I didn't mind, thinking about her all the time felt me frustrated, angry, and annoyed. This was her fault. The butterflies, made of nervousness had now turned to knifes of hatred. I no longer felt my heart skip a beat when she was near, why couldn't she have told me sooner. I hate her for this. She took my heart soul and life away from me... she put me in this situation. ' Why didn't she just tell me she loved me?' As I walked around the meadow I came to a tree. It was a beautiful cherry blossom tree. I watched as the blossoms fell down to ground. It was so easy for them to just fall and forget the past. Separating from the tree to become it's own blossom. I had stared at the tree for so long I had for gotten why I was angry... i had actually forgotten who i was... I walked around the tree finding no clue on who I was or what had happened. " eleanor.." "WHO SAID THAT?!?" I started to freak out over the small whisper. I walked around the tree until I came across a girl. When I saw her I felt calm again. "I'm you, hanna. You need to wake up,  they didn't go through with the surgery." I suddenly felt all the emotion I had once felt before the blossoms. All the memories flooding back. Only this time the anger was replace confusion. " am I dead?" " no she returned your feelings." " she did..?" " yes." " what if I'm not ready to confront  those feelings?" "Then stay here. Not forever. Just for a bit." " can I talk to you while I'm here?" " that's why I'm here." Myself and I started to walk through the meadow. It was a little bit before I had spoke again. "Why did I pass out...?" "You needed time to heal." " soon enough you'll be back in the waiting room, with her, making sure that the most of the plant is actually gone. When you and your love feel those fireworks, the plant will blossom outside your body, it represents the struggles you two had gone through to find your love." " will I be coughing up petals for ever?" " no." "Okay, I'm ready to go back." She waved goodbye and a gave her a hug. I woke up in a hospital bed. "HANNA YOU'RE ALIVE!!" Eleanor cried into my shoulder. "of course... I stayed alive for you." She smashed her lips into mine. I touched her tear stained cheeks . Never wanting her to go through that pain again. She broke the kiss to find cherry blossoms all over the place. It had been a few months since I had been cured. Today I had to go back to the hospital for a checkup. I had been sitting for along time. Tick tock- tick tock- 'Does that clock ever stop ticking' Eleanor grabbed my hand, seeing me get nervous about the appointment. This wasnt enough because I started to bouncing my knee; a nervous tick of mine. "Hey hanna, everything will be alright." "Are you sure? What if I still have hanahaki?" "Then I have it too." She smiled at before giving a long kiss. Instead of butterflies that made me feel nervous  around her, they were replaced with the blossoms  that made me ever so calm. We broke apart once again, to see the waiting room complete covered in blossoms. It reminded me of the tree in my dream. " I guess you could say you make a waiting room blossom just by walking into it..." " you're cute. I love you." " love you too."          

July 08, 2020 07:30

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