Chapter 36
The song is Flightless Bird, American Mouth by the band Iron and Wine! It is a Twilight song but it's a good Twilight song!
(Hopes POV)
I opened my eyes and was staring at my reflection in a mirror. My makeup was done almost by a professional. Autumn was behind me placing white Hibiscuses in my braided hair that was in a bun. She was smiling as she was placing them in the braids. Was this the afterlife? A nice good feeling dream? Was I even dead in the first place?
Holly came running into the small room wearing an off the shoulder long maroon dress, the same one Autumn was wearing but Autumn's dress was resting on her shoulders.
"I have the video I have the video!" Holly yells as she runs to my side holding out the video playing on the phone.
Evan was standing there with the nicest tux that I've ever seen, a maroon pocket square and maroon tie to match the dresses that Autumn and Holly were wearing. Delirious walks up behind him wearing a ball gown wedding dress with a long train in the back. The dress wasn't zipped up so Delirious was holding it up with his hands. He tapped on Evans's shoulder and Evan had the biggest smile on his face as he turned around. As soon as Evan saw Delirious in the wedding dress he brings a fist up to his mouth and just starts losing it in laughter.
"I'm ready for our wedding honey!" Delirious says in the best girl voice he can attempt. I could hear the guys dying of laughter off-camera.
"You're an ass Delirious, really you are. But your still my best man nonetheless." Evan says through his laughs. The video ended and I was laughing with Autumn and Holly. I guess if I'm dead or dreaming, I might as well enjoy this while I can.
"So... I'm marrying Evan today, right?" I ask looking back at Autumn who walks to the door and grabs the wedding dress that Delirious was wearing in the video.
"After a whole year of dating too, but you know it's Evan. He wanted to marry you on day one since you guys started dating." Autumn says as I get up from the chair and walk over to her.
She helps me get in the long dress and starts to zip it up as well as button it up as well. There was a soft knock at the door. Autumn stops and looks at Holly who was slowly walking up to the door.
"It might be Brock, don't open it till we can all hear his voice alright?" Autumn says as she watches the door. Holly leans her head against the door.
"What's wrong with Brock?" I ask looking back and forth between the two.
"No we want it to be Brock, he's giving you away to Evan remember? I'm just making sure it isn't Brian." Autumn says rather coldly. What did Brian do they both love Brian?
"If it isn't Brock or Delirious please go away, there's 20 minutes left till the wedding is supposed to start. You should either be getting ready or in the church with everyone else." Holly says. We wait for a response.
"It's Brock, Autumn said if I'm late it's my funeral instead of Hope's wedding," Brock says almost nervously.
Autumn nods her head as Holly opens the door. Brock walks in and looks around the room before looking at me as Autumn finishes up buttoning the dress. Holly quickly closes the door and looks back at us.
"I just want to say for the 100th time how happy I am that you picked me to walk you down the aisle," Brock says smiling. He was also wearing a tux as well as the sunset-colored tie from when we all went to the casino. I just have to go along with this because they all think it's real even though I know it isn't.
"You're basically like my brother so of course I had to pick you." I smile at Brock as I go and give him a hug. He gives me a hug back.
"He's in the bathroom drinking away the day. You know he won't leave till we force him to." Brock says as he lets go of the hug.
"I'm sorry but I don't associate with men who cheat on my family. He can drink himself to death for all I care but Evan and Hope are together now. Not Brian and Hope, Evan and Hope." Autumn says as she goes to the mirror and messes around with her hair a bit. Brock looks down sorrowfully as Holly looks down at her maroon canvas shoes.
"Here, I know you said no weapons today but it'll make me feel safer if you have it on you," Brock says as he reaches into his pocket and pulls out a silver AP Pistol. I take it from him and look at the gun. I sit on the couch and hike up the dress so I can strap it around my thigh with the garter.
"Okay people, we have 10 minutes left, as soon as Hope gets her heels on we'll head over to the church and get the wedding party situated," Autumn says clapping her hands once. There's no way 10 minutes went by that quickly, proving my point more that this is either a dream or the afterlife.
On the table in front of me were white heels that I know I won't be able to walk in. I pick them up and strap them on before standing up, with the help of Brock thankfully.
"Don't want to be breaking any ankles today, pretty sure Evan would kill me." Brock chuckles as we walk out of the room with Autumn and Holly behind us.
We pass the bathrooms and I see Brian leaning against the wall next to it, I've seen him drunk a few times but he was absolutely shit faced now. He was wearing a dark blue dress shirt and black pants, I guess he's not in the wedding party. He looks me up and down.
"Just like you always wanted. A fucking huge wedding with anyone and everyone you could think of and look at it, you got it. You got your dream wedding and look what I got, beer." He says as he takes another swig. Brock pulls me closer to him.
"Just be lucky they even invited your ungrateful ass." Brock spits back as we walk past Brian.
I closed my eyes trying to still wrap my head around what's happening. I felt myself slowly swaying back and forth and when I opened my eyes back up. I was in a dimly lit large room, my arms around Evan's neck as his were sitting on my lower back. I felt my shoes resting on top of his as he slowly went in a circle. I looked up at him and met his eyes which were staring at me with tears in them. A girl singing Can't Help Falling in Love With You softly played throughout the place.
"I love you, Mrs. Fong. We have the rest of our lives now." Evan whispers to me. I felt the lump form in my throat and my eyes get heavy with tears building up. I move my hand and look at the ring. It had a rose gold band with small diamonds all the way around it and a 2 carat circular diamond in the middle. He chuckles to himself as he kisses my forehead.
"You keep looking at it, I'm guessing I did a good job on picking it out huh?" He says as the song ends. He wipes at his eyes and gives me a tight hug.
"As much as I want to keep dancing my love, I'm getting hungry over here," I say also carefully wiping at my eyes. He starts to laugh as he holds out his arm to me and walks us over to the head table in front of the room. Everyone claps and cheers behind us as we sit down at the table. I start to laugh as I close my eyes again.
I open them again and saw that I was sitting on the floor where the reception was held. It looked like no one has been here in for years, dust everywhere, windows and part of the floor broken in some places. I look down at my hand where the ring was only for it to be gone like it was never there in the first place. I get up and look down, I was still wearing the wedding dress, but the cream color was now a dirty brown from all the dust.
A light flicked on in one of the back rooms. I slowly walked over to it as I was reaching down feeling for the AP Pistol that Brock gave me, it wasn't there anymore. It's a dream, if I die I won't die in real life, if this is the afterlife, I'm already dead so why does it matter?
I walked up a couple of steps that lead up to the lit up room. I opened the door and walked in dead bodies and blood was scattered everywhere, the smell was horrific. Bodies of the guys, my gang, my family were all laying next to each other. In the middle of the room, Evan was holding a dying me, I was coved head to toe in blood. He looked up and over at me, tears in his eyes.
"YOU! YOU DID THIS! YOU KILLED EVERYONE, EVERYONE THAT I LOVED! HOW CAN YOU LIVE WITH YOURSELF?!" He yelled as he got up and charged after me. As soon as he touched me, he and the bodies became mist and slowly flew away.
The room grew black so quickly that I couldn't even see my own hand in front of me. I could hear voices though as well as a constant beep. I recognized the beeps as a heart monitor. I am alive, I survived the fall.
"When were you going to tell everyone?" I hear Craig say, although his voice sounded very muffled, almost like he was underwater.
"We started dating the day we left Liberty City, we talked about telling everyone after all of this was done, but clearly THIS isn't done till she wakes up," Evan said, also in the same muffled voice.
That's true, Evan asked me the day that we were leaving Liberty City for me to be with him, I was very emotional that day and had to say yes to him. We planned on telling the rest of the guys after we celebrated our successful mission on killing Warren. I open my eyes and look at Brian and Craig staring at Evan who was crossing his arms.
"I'm sorry for the wait, I would have woken up sooner but my dream wouldn't end," I say, once again in a muffled tone. They didn't even look over at me, let alone reacted to what I said. Evan points to me and the guys look over, still not reacting that I'm awake.
"If you don't believe me, you can ask her when she wakes up," Evan says getting annoyed. Was I really not awake right now?
"You mean if she wakes up? Evan it's almost May. The doctors are talking about pulling the plug here soon, she hasn't made any progress since we brought her here." Brian says as he takes a deep breath and holds it for a second.
I've been out for almost 3 months? Craig shakes his head as he walks out of the hospital room. Brian does the same as Evan walks over to me and grabs onto my hand and squeezes it.
"You're not allowed to die before me. I fucking forbid it." He says as he looks down at the ground.
I blinked and he was gone, the room was darker now like it was night outside. The beeping picked up as did my heart rate. Was I finally awake or was this another coma dream? I turned as the door opened. The male nurse and I made contact as he dropped the tray that he was holding in his hands.
"I NEED A DOCTOR OVER HERE! SHE'S AWAKE!" He yelled as he ran over to me. "Don't freak out, your in the hospital right now in the recovery ward." A female doctor ran in and looked at me in shock.
"We didn't think you were going to pull through. May I ask you something? Do you remember anything?" The doctor asks me as she walks closer to me. I nod my head confused.
"I remember everything. Who I am, where I'm at, who I know, and everything leading up to this moment." My voice was scratchy coming out, but they were able to hear and understand me.
"I overheard my friends talking about how I've been out for three months and how it's almost May, is that true?" I ask, tilting my head a little. The nurse and the doctor look at each other then back to me.
"It's May 31 at 3 in the morning. The last time all three friends were in here together was April 27." The nurse says. So I've been out for almost 4 months now.
"Go call the boyfriend Jake, I don't care if it's past visiting hours he hasn't been in here for a week and I'm worried for him." The doctor tells Jake as he rushes out of the room. The doctor sits on the stool and still has an astonished look on her face.
"Jake was coming in here to check up on you because our monitors noticed a shift in your heart rate. It looks like you woke up at the right time." She says giving me a smile. I get to see the guys again, I... get to see Evan again... I get to feel his kisses once again.
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