Senpai, Notice Me!

Chapter 15

Aya stayed by Jesse's side on his first night at the hospital. Even though visitors weren't usually allowed to stay over, Jesse's parents pleaded to the hospital to let her, because Aya doesn't want to leave Jesse's side until he wakes up. Even though she tried her best to stay up, she still fell asleep holding Jesse's hand, the hand she didn't let go, even for once that night. Even if sleeping while sitting, only resting her head on Jesse's bed, she didn't complain one bit. All she wanted was to be with him when he wakes up. 

The doctor said Jesse should wake up within the next 24 hours. She was planning to stay up that whole time, but obviously, due to tiredness with all what happened that day, she failed. She was just woken up by the midnight shift nurse when she checked on them.

"Mm..." Aya rubbed her eyes and looked at the just opened door, the nurse standing there.

"I'm sorry, did I wake you up?" the nurse quickly apologized.

Aya shook her head, "No, it's okay... I wanted to stay up anyway, but I fell as well," then she looked at Jesse. He's still sleeping. They removed the oxygen tube from his nose few hours ago when his breathing became stable. He had also recovered enough blood for himself, and the only thing connected to him right now was the electrocardiograph machine, that tracks his heartbeat, and his IV fluid.

"I'm just going to check his IV and give him a shot of pain killer," the nurse informed Aya and approached Jesse's bed side to do what she said.

Aya watched what the nurse was doing and thanked her for making sure Jesse's going to be alright. The nurse smiled at her and said, "It's actually your presence... there's no scientifcal explanation to it, but with my experience here, when a patient's hand is being held, the patient recovers faster,"

"Really?"

"Yes, and make sure to talk to the patient, most of them can hear what the person with them says,"

"I see..." then she looked at Jesse, then back to the nurse, "thank you,"

The nurse smiled, "It's nothing, anyway, I'll get going now, if anything strange happens, just call me, and I changed his IV, so he should be good for the next few hours,"

Aya nodded and looked at Jesse again as the nurse left his room. She held his hand with her both hands now, "Is it true that you can hear me...? Then I guess I'll talk to you," she chuckled, "but I don't know what to talk about, so maybe I'll talk about myself? Hehe, if that's okay with you... that day, when you were bullied, I thought you were the cutest thing in the world, coz you know, you were so small that time, and trembling, and so helpless, I just wanted to hug you that time like a little brother, but mom already called me... but I never really bothered to try and get to know you... cause I saw that you already made friends and you won't need my protection anymore,"

"So, I was really surprised when you approached me after my graduation. To be honest, I was quite happy when you confessed, but like what I told you, I wasn't ready to be in a relationship yet... but during first year junior high, I had a really big crush on Yuya, and it happened, we entered a relationship, and you found out... but you still like me. I actually didn't believe it right away cause it's been a year since we saw each other, and you're starting to be a really good-looking guy, puberty, right? So I thought to myself, 'Naa, this guy probably likes somebody else already, I'm sure girls are lining up for him,"

It's been a couple of hours and Aya was still talking to a sleeping Jesse, "Then I started training you for the presidency, we two got closer... I really appreciated all your effort that time, even though you came from your karate activities, you still came, tired, and sometimes sleepy. I know you didn't want to disappoint me, that's why you were so determined, you kept on giving your best in everything... and look at you now, you seem perfect... even though people say I'm lucky that you're head over heels for me, no... I'm blessed to be friends with you... and sincerely apologize for every bad thing I've done to you, for ignoring your feelings, ignoring your pain, taking advantage of you... I'm so sorry,"