Exhale

11

Soon enough, Julian fell asleep right behind Samir.

"What the hell is this? Nap time with Morgan?" Kionni's voice sounded as she came in the room, Treshaun, Talia, a sleeping Tristan and Elijah right behind her. They went and picked him up from campus today so he could come see her.

"Well shit, if we taking naps I'll get mine in right now" Tre spoke, plopping down on the little couch in the room. They provided Morgan with one of the bigger rooms in the hospital for recovery, due to her very high volume of visitors.

After talking to her for a bit, Talia snuggled up to her boyfriend, Kionni sat on the opposite end, and Elijah sat cross legged on the floor. It'd been two and a half hours since her first visitor and somehow, all of her friends ended up asleep in the room.

So since nobody was awake, nobody noticed when Morgan's heart monitor began beating out of control, alerting one of the nurses walking by. She rushed inside, checking all of the necessary things to make sure nothing was wrong before she briefly looked back at Morgan, and was shocked to see two brown eyes staring up at her.

"Oh my goodness!" the nurse exclaimed. "Welcome back pretty girl! You had all these lovely people waiting on you, how do you feel?" she quickly asked.

"M-my throat," she rasped out. The nurse quickly fetched some water for her, and while she was gone, Morgan smiled as she looked around at all of her friends knocked out sleeping.

"Here you are, darling," she said, helping Morgan take the water down. After she drank it she coughed a few times, causing Samir and Elijah's eyes to both snap open.

"MORGAN!?" Elijah yelled, once he was fully coherent, waking everyone else up. He was immediately on his feet and hugging his older sister, nearly in tears.

"You scared the shit out of me Morgan!" he exclaimed, wiping his face. She pouted a little bit, grabbing his hand in hers. Her throat was still a little sore so she didn't want to speak. "I'm so happy to see you, man," he said, squeezing her hand.

Every one else agreed with his sentiment, and as the nurse went to get doctor Hazel, everyone stood to greet her. There were tears and smiles all around and Morgan couldn't be happier to see all of their faces.

"Morgan..." she heard from her left, seeing Samir now standing, staring at her in shock. She sent a smile his way, recalling all the things he told her, from his days at work, to stories about his little sister, random things he saw throughout the hospital and of course how much he missed and loved her and all of his prayers. Just thinking about it had heat rushing to her face.

She waved him over, holding her hand out for him to hold. He made his way over to her, grabbing her hand and she gave it a squeeze like he did for her every day. Just by that gesture he knew for a fact she was listening to him every day and tears welled up in his eyes.

Kionni was the first to notice and hurriedly pushed everyone out of the room so the couple could have a moment.

"I prayed every day just for this, right here," he said to her, kneeling next to her bed. "I missed you so much, baby. I'm sorry I wasn't there, I wish this never had to happen to you. I-I was so scared, Morgan. I don't know what I would have done if I-if you didn't-" he stammered becoming emotional. She cut him off, pressing a kiss to the back of his hand, which was still holding hers tightly.

"It's okay baby, I'm okay," she scratched out, voice still raspy from not using it for days. He stood to his feet, now towering over her again, cupping her chin in his hands, staring intensely into her eyes. "I'm here," she assured him again, making him smile. A tear dropped from one of his eyes and he leaned down and kissed her forehead, nose and finally her lips.