LOST LOVE

CHANGES

One year later

At hospital

Doctor Samuel took his seat and picked up the medical report in front of him to start reading it.

"How are you feeling now, Catherine?" Doctor Samuel asked her, his eyes still glued to the letters in the report.
"I am fine, doctor. I am feeling better," Catherine answered, looking straight at the doctor. She felt suffocated in the hospital room.

She had been attached to the hospital for a year now.
"There is no need to worry. Your results are good," Samuel took his eyes off the report and looked at Catherine. "You should take care of your health," he smiled.

Catherine hummed in response.
"James doesn't come with you?" Samuel asked, not seeing him with her.
"No, he has an important meeting today," she answered. She had been using the same excuse many times.
Doctor Samuel looked at her sympathetically.
"Can I stop my medicines now, doctor?" she asked, breaking the silence between them.
" Yeah, sure. You are recovered," Samuel assured her with an encouraging smile.

Catherine took her bag and left his room. She went to pick up her car.

Past

It has been one year since that night happened. The night that changed their lives. A trucker crashed into their car. It took only a few seconds to take away the happiness of James and Catherine.

People gathered around the damaged car. They called 911. The ambulance arrived in seconds. Someone put James and Catherine on stretchers.

James was conscious. He was aware of what was happening around him, but Catherine wasn't reacting. He wanted to cry so badly, but no voice came out. He looked at his wife's body. His beautiful wife was covered in blood. The ambulance reached the hospital.

Doctors rushed towards the ambulance with stretchers. They immediately took Catherine to the emergency room. James was not badly injured. His leg was fractured. Doctors applied medicine to the wound and gave him sedation. He fell asleep due to the intense pain. He was still murmuring Catherine's name in his sleep.

Catherine was in a coma for more than two months. She was physically fine, but her mental strength was not alright. The doctor told James that she could wake up at any time. During the initial stage, James didn't leave her bedside. But then his parents and Candy asked him to move on. They encouraged him to start working again and forget all these problems.

One morning during those hospital days,

"James, look at yourself, then look at the company's status. You should concentrate on your company too," James's mom told him.

"Mom, Catherine is lying in this bed because of me," he cried in his mom's arms. The tears were rolling down from his eyes. James's mother couldn't see her son's misery. "No son, it was God's decision. It was her fate," she hugged him and rubbed his back.

Jordan and Candy came to James's side. "James, I think you should divert your mind to work. Then it will be less painful," Jordan encouraged James.

James was sobbing. "No, Dad, I have to be here. I wanna be the first person she sees when she wakes up," he said.

"James, cats can wake up at any time. What would she say if she saw you like this? The company that she too worked hard for is in a bad position," Catherine's mother, Candy, asked her son-in-law.

James looked at her, then at the lying Catherine. "I am a doctor, I can stay with my daughter the whole time," she promised to James.

After a series of discussions and encouragement, James started working again. He came to visit Catherine in the morning before going to the office and went straight to the hospital from the office.