Erica
Ritten City SuperMax Hospital
I stayed in Jessica's room here at the hospital for the next 3 days, each day I stayed for as long as I could, same with Rachel and Tyler, we had all been waiting for Jessica to wake up from the coma she had gone into.
With the wild amount of blood she had lost, her brain might have received damage according to the Head Nurse who looked after Jessica.
It wasn't going to be clear to tell until Jessica woke up, everyone of us was wondering if Jessica would even remember us.
Hoping she would.
Rachel, who was still very pissed that I had broken up with Jessica the way that I did was told by her, "not to interfere or attempt to coax Jessica into believing we were still together."
I accepted it, I wasn't planning on doing that anyway, if Jessica had forgotten who I was, I'd be sad yes, but I wouldn't attempt to persuade Jessica into loving me again. It took another 4 days before Jessica even woke up, and when she did, all of us practically jumped on her.
Which frightened the life out of her.
...she had forgotten us...
She thought that all these random strangers were attacking her, shouting, "Where the hell am I!" at us.
The Head Nurse came in almost immediately and the three of us were promptly removed from the room while a small medical team came in and ran more tests on Jessica.
The Nurses came out and the Head Nurse got the three of us together and explained the current situation.
"Good News or Bad News?" The Head Nurse asked.
"Good News." Rachel said immediately, as she held her hands close to her chest.
Tyler and I also agreed, we could use the good news.
"Jessica will recover but it might take a few months till her memories fully return." The Head Nurse said as she continued to speak.
"Jessica is suffering from short term memory loss, she currently doesn't remember anything up until at least 2030."
"I also asked her if she knew any of you and she said no." The Head Nurse finished.
"Bad News?" Tyler asked.
"Bad News is that she'll have to learn some basic motor functions again, like balancing herself, she seemed to have a massive lack of balance, we were wondering if she had forgotten how to walk, but it's been ruled out." She said to the three of us.
"Also, here's all her forms and paperwork for you to sign, Erica." The Head Nurse said to me as she handed me a pad and pen.
This made Rachel very mad.
"Why is she getting the paperwork?" Rachel asked the Head Nurse.
"Erica is the Emergency Contact of Jessica." The Head Nurse told her. "Jessica will be required to stay with Erica for the time being due to this, as the Medical Staff will come and do weekly check ups on Jessica when she leaves hospital for a few weeks."
"What?" Rachel said surprised. "When did Jessica ever put Erica down as an Emergency Contact!"
"She put me down as an Emergency Contact after we moved in together." I told her.
I was surprised by this, I honestly didn't even know Jessica had put me down as an Emergency Contact.
"So what? she's gonna be living at your place again?" Rachel asked me.
"I suppose?" I shrugged my shoulders.
"Is there an issue here?" The Head Nurse asked us.
"No no, We're fine." I said as I immediately looked at Rachel, telling her to shut up with the look in my eyes.
If I was going to prove that I still loved Jessica, I'd look after her during this time of need.
Jessica was due to leave the hospital in a day's time.
Meanwhile, during this time I had to go get questioned at the Police Headquarters in Ritten because my marking bite had been found on Jessica.
I proved my innocence and had Rhys back my claim up that I was not at Jessica's house when she was attacked and that I was so far away that I wouldn't have been able to get to her place in time to even assault her that way.
The whole break up made me look like a massive target though.
"So what actually happened?" I asked Rachel as we all sat down on a bench outside of Jessica's Hospital Room.
"Well..." Rachel started.
Rachel
4 Days Earlier
Jessica's House.
"Damn thing." I mumbled as I continued to work on the computer.
The model I was making was very detailed and required a lot of effort. I had been working on this model for the last 4 weeks and I was beginning to grow bored of it.
Thankfully I had time on my side to actually complete the model fully, I think this one would have had to be the most detailed models I've ever made.
It was a giant spaceship, for a massive multiplayer online game that was releasing in a year's time.
To be completely honest, in my humble opinion, video games have gotten out of control.
The usual development time back in the 2010's was 6 years for a full game to be developed, after the crisis of 2023, almost all Triple A video game companies took a different stance.
Games would take around 12 years to be created, the sheer amount of detail and effort going into games these days was insane.
Virtual Reality also took off majorly, VRChat 2 released after being in development for 12 years just 2 months ago, the VR scene just continued to expand.
A Basic 4K60FPS Virtual Reality headset we're worth $120, it was just insane, especially when you learn how much people were paying for them when they first came out. Almost all video games these days are released with VR Content, it's a must have.
If I wasn't so busy with a full time job, I'd go back to making VRChat Models for people like I was doing in College and High School.
"How are you going?" Jessica asked me as she lent over my chair and hugged me from behind.
"Annoyed." I told her. "Horny too." I complained.
"When aren't you." Jessica said as she let go of me and walked over to her bed and flopped down onto it.
I saved my progress and turned my computer off, spinning around in my chair to face her.
"I'm an Artist, I cannot help but be horny." I laughed.
Our bedroom suddenly went into darkness as the computer screen that was previously lighting the room turned off as the computer shut down.
"Darkness." Jessica said into her pillow.
I sat up off my chair and walked to my bedside table, flicking the small light on.
The warm yellow light dimly lit the room up.
Jessica turned over to face me, I moved towards her bed and sat down on it.
"I can damn smell how horny you are." Jessica said as she rolled over again.
"Guilty." I laughed as I laid down onto the bed with her.
Jessica rolled back towards me and was now looking me in the eye.
"We did it once already weeks ago, I don't want to do it again." Jessica told me.
"Sounds like someone wants to fuck, but doesn't want their true feelings to come out." I cheekily said.