CHAPTER 17: MY BROKEN HEART

Aria

I woke up, brushed my teeth, and grabbed my things heading out the door. I was beyond tired, but hopefully once I boarded the flight, I could get a nap in. However, it wasn't meant to be.
The flight was extremely noisey and irritating. I knew for a fact that in an hour or so, I would be in extreme pain, and my face being as red as a ripe tomato from sleep deprivation.
After the long 5 hour flight, I took a taxi ride to the hospital where my grandmother was. When I walked in her room, my mom was sitting in a chair besides my grandmothers' bed, resting her head on the side. She looked extremely tired and worn out and it seemed that she hadn't eaten in almost a week.
Then I looked over at my grandmother and I broke down in a fit. All of the tough times and happy memories flooded into my mind and I couldn't hold it in anymore. I fell to the floor and my mom tried to hold me but I didn't want her to.
I wanted to feel the exact pain she was feeling. It was very painful and unbearable. She had tubes through her body and she had been placed on a ventilator.
My grandmother was laying there lifeless and I couldn't take it. I loved this woman so much! I was the one taking care of her when she got sick, or stayed home with her because my mom had to work. Why did this have to happen to her?
She was the other part of my heart besides my mom, and now my heart was broken, shattered to pieces. I felt the pain of loosing someone very dear to me, and it hurt like hell.
My grandmother, Mona Elise, was my heart, my life, my happiness...
As I cried my eyes out, my mom just held me, still sitting on the floor. It didn't bother me that the floor was ice cold or the fact that I cried and screamed for whoever knows how long or loud, that I could've woken up the entire hospital. I didn't care.
I didn't want to move, I wanted to die with her. When I was done crying, I was able to sit down in one of the chairs beside her bed and have a talk with my mom.
"Mom, how long has she been like this? Sick, I mean?"
"For at least a month now honey." She said with a shaky voice.
"What?! Why wasn't I told earlier about her?"
My mom hung her head low, and then said "She, we didn't want you to know. We knew you had just started a new job and you were living your life...."
"So you just thought my life meant more than hers? You all took it upon yourselves to hide this from me! For almost a whole month?!?"
"Honey, don't be angry with us! We really didn't want to bother you!"
"Bother me? You all are my family! Why would this bother me? I can't believe this!"
I was raking my fingers through my hair, and decided tthat I needed some air.
"Just please, let me know when she wakes up. If she does....I want to speak with her one last time before she...before she leaves us."
I walked outside and leaned on the balcony, feeling the wind blow through my hair. I was wiping my tears away and clearing my thoughts when I recieved an email notification.
_Mr. Williams Fulfillment and Negotiations Contract' Second Reminder_
"What the hell is this?", I asked myself, "A contract for what?"
My mind floated back to that day Aiden and I had the conversation about me signing a contract and for me to only have one month to handle any unfinished business. It hadn't even been a month yet...has it?
I looked at the date on my calendar and it read the 11th. Damn it! It had actually been a month and some days.
I knew that it wouldn't take just a month to handle everything and that I would need more time. He would understand my situation right?
He thought he could just take me away from my current life and change everything to how he wanted it to be! I wasn't going to allow it.
He thought he had control over me, thought he owned me. I'd show him differently!
I was about to open the contract and read it when the Doctor came and told me that it was the last time I could go see her.
I disregarded everything and focused on her. I wasn't sure if I could go through with it or if I'd break down again, seeing that I was a very emotional person, but it had to be done. I had to go say my final good-byes to her sooner or later, and sadly, it had to be done now.
As I was walking back to her room, I was sluggishly dragging my feet. When I entered the room, everyone was waiting on me. To see my reaction, my pain, my tears...maybe.
I walked over to her bed once more, leaned down, and kissed her hand.
My love was gone, lost forever to me.
I heard a phone ring but i couldn't take my eyes off of her. I stood there for a long time looking down and holding her hand as she laid there, finally sleeping peacefully.
The sound of the phone ringing again brought me back and this time my mother spoke.
"Dear, your cell phone is ringing." She said while grabbing my shoulder.
I turned to her and said, "Does it matter mom? Right now at this moment, the ringing of my phone, does it really matter?"
My mom shook her head. "Yes. The hard part is over now. You have important business and a life to take care of. I promise you will be notified about everything that happens from now on."
"Yes, Mother. Thank you," I said while giving her a hug and grabbing my bag headed out the door.
I walked up the stairs to the roof where there was a sitting area specifically for private matters.
When I finally sat down, I took out my phone. Hearing its noisey ringtone, I wanted to throw it over the balcony, when it rung again.
Time was not on my side.
It was Aiden, and he had called me five times now.
I wasn't ready to talk to him, to hear his voice. To hear how much I shouldn't have missed his calls, but I decided to answer anyways.
"Hello?"
"....Aria?" He said frantically through the phone.
"Yes?"
"Where have you been? Are you alright? Are you safe?"
I chuckled a little, "Seems like you, you're worried about me..."
He took a long pause and said, "I am Aria. God I've missed you."
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