Surprises (a OneRepublic fanfic)

Chapter 10

The sun starts to hurt my eyes. How long have I been asleep? I turn over and Ryan isn't in the bed. "Ryan?" I say still feeling groggy. There was no answer. I start to feel worried. I get up from the bed and start looking for him. I keep calling out his name and I still don't get an answer.I start to feel cold as I get near the music room. Then suddenly I hear music also coming from the same room. I walk towards the music room and the music sounds more recognizable and I hear Ryan singing:

"You and I were meant to be ain't no doubt about it....

No way to hide that sort of thing...

Now I’m waiting for something better

Ain't nothing better worth imagining..."

I walk into the room and I see Ryan sitting inside the booth without his shirt. He stops the music and starts writing notes down on a journal. He presses play again and continues singing: 

"I, I keep on running

I’m building bridges that I know you never wanted

Look for my heart

You stole it away

Now I’ll never sing the road that I could take..."

I knock on the window and Ryan looks up at me and flashes his all-American-sure-I-look-like-twenty-five-but-I'm-really-Thirty-three smile. I melt instantly. He pauses the music with the little remote and he walks out of the booth. "Good morning sleepyhead. It's about time you wake up." He smiled at me. "Ryan you look like you've completely recovered!" I say in surprise. "Yeah I tend to heal quickly." He says and I automatically think back a few years ago when he tore his Achilles' tendon playing basketball and then a few weeks later we was walking normally.

"How's your ribs?" I ask sweetly. "A little banged up still." He said. I unwrap the gauze from his torso and noticed that the huge gash that I sewed up last night had almost disappeared completely. I ran my fingers on his rib cage and he winced. "It still hurts there." Said Ryan and changed the gauze and wrapped him up. "It's to make sure ribs don't bruise up more." I say to him gently. "I love you." Ryan said to me as I finished putting the the last pin to keep the gauze in place. "I love you too." I said to him back.

He pulls me into his embrace and I try my best not to touch anywhere near his midsection. I wrap my hands around the back of his neck as puts his around my waist. He leans in and says, "Thank you for saving my life." "Don't thank me Ryan, you saved me." I murmur. He leans in and kisses me. I start to see sparks fly again. He pulls away and says, "looks like I'm not the only one who saw that." I giggle and he takes me by the hand. "Come with me I want to show you something." I follow him into the recording booth and he tells me to sit at a nearby chair. Then he grabs his headphones, puts them on and says to me, "I uh wrote this song a few years ago but I never sang it to anybody that I actually cared about ever since." He presses the play button and soft guitar music starts to flow around the room then suddenly, I hear his voice: