Juniper

One

Ashton's POV.

I walked into the hospital with the bouquet of flowers and passed Maria, the head nurse.

 "Good morning Ashton", she greeted me. She's a nice lady.

"Good morning Maria", I replied, turning to look at her. My lips curling into a fake smile that she would have called as charming as my real ones. What I wouldn't do to hear her voice again.

  "Are you visiting again", Maria asked. I know she's trying to be polite and I appreciate it but I'm upset because I'm not visiting. Instead I'm looking at a comatose girl for about two hours doing nothing but talking to her.

I wave at Maria as I start walking towards the room. I opened the door and stepped in, putting the flowers into a vase. She loves them; lilies, daisies, roses,  basically anything that was a flower. I pull on the petals, making them open a little before turning to my pale, tired looking girlfriend. She's so pale and yet I am irrevocably in love with her.

  "Hello Juni", I said, sitting down and running my hand through her brunette hair, she loved it when I did that.

  "Come back to me Juni", I said again, still running my hand through her hair.

  "I love you", I said, chuckling as I remembered how worked up she was when I first told her those words.

#Flashback#

We were sitting on the swings in the park, the wind kept sweeping her hair to her face and she was pouting because I laughed instead of apologizing.

  "Juniper", I called looking at her.

She didn't reply as she was "angry" with me. She huffed and blew at her hair. I laughed again.

  "Juni", I called again amusement showing ony face. I wasn't replied again.

  "Juni?", I said again, getting up and coming in front of her.

  "Juniper", I said holding the chains of the swing,y face close to hers.

  "I don't want to talk to you Ashton", she said, blushing and looking away.

  "But I love you Juni" I whispering into her ear. I can swear she shivered as I said it.

  "You, .... You stupid Jerk" she said pushing me away as tears gathered in her eyes. She thought I was joking, I wasn't.

She got up and started walking away. She was crying.

  "Juni, come back" I said as I grabbed her wrist.

  "Why would you say that, you know how I feel about it' she said putting her face into my shirt as I wrapped my hands around her. I sighed.

  " I'm sorry Juni, but  actually serious, one day I'll make you my wife", I said holding her chin making her look up at me.

  "Okay", she replied smiling when I leaned down to peck her.

#Present#

"God Juni, please come back", I said pecking her. I looked out the window and sighed. I turned back to he. The slightest movement would brighten my day.

  "Y'know, mom said I should say hi, she couldn't make it over and our little coffee shop is blooming, your newest cupcake recipe is a bomb. They all love it. But  beginning to think they know it's not yours, it doesn't exactly taste like yours. Do you remember what you told me when I asked you what you wanted the most" I asked, looking at her.

#Flashback#

"Juniper", I called her one of the days we were in her room. I had to threaten that I would stop visiting if she didn't clean it. Then she made me do it with her. This was basically highschool.

  "Yeah" she said dragging the h as she dusted her bedside lamp.

"What do you want to do when we grow older?" I asked as I arranged some books into her book case which she almost never uses. Books are always littered everywhere.

  "Hmm, that's tough, first off I want to learn how to cook, bake, all the works and then I ......" She started fiddling with her fingers something she did when she was nervous.

  "You what?", I asked, clearly amused with the situation.

  "I want us t- to get married and open a coffee shop, just like your mom's" she replied as a blush splashed over her cheek.

  "Cute" I thought to myself.

  "I don't know, sounds like a lot of work, I mean I might cheat and run away" I said, resting against the book case and shrugging. I looked over to her.

  "Uhm, oh" she said, thinking about it.

  "I'm kidding you dummy" I said, Laughing as I  flung a pillow at her which hit her square in the face.

"You'd better be or I would have killed you this instant" she said smiling as she threw the pillow back at me. She has terrible aim so it was off by a long shot.

  "You'd sooo suck at baseball" I said laughing at her.

  "Oh yeah, Wanna say that To my face" she said getting up and starting to chase me as we both laughed.

#Present#

The incessant beeping of my phone as messages rolled in distracted me. I sighed bringing out my phone from my pocket. Three messages from dad, a few from mom, one from Cassidy; Juniper's sister and several from Marcel. I swear something is wrong with this guy.

Just then my phone started ringing; "Mom", the name popped out on the screen. I got up and walked out of the room into the corridor. I answered.

"Hello Mom", I said.

"Yeah, she's okay", "No, she's not awake", "What the hell Mom? No she's not dead either", "Is there an actual reason you called?", "Marcel?", "Just tell him I'll talk to him later", "if he doesn't leave after that just grab the revolver under the bed", "sorry mom", "I love you too mom", "mom don't cry we've been through this, it's fine", "yh bye, love you too". The line went dead.

I pinched the bridge of my nose and turned to walk into the room. Opening the door with my eyes still glued to my phone, I rose my head making to pocket the phone. The phone dropped from my hands as the seen that greeted me moved me to tears: she awake.