She lay in the hospital bed with half a heart still beating, half her lungs still breathing. It was enough though – for now. He’d dropped everything, sprinted to the hospital like in those cliché dramas with overdone plots but this, this was real. More real than anything in his life, anyway. Definitely more real than those nights he daydreamed about, those days they never spent.
“I’m sorry, are you immediate family?”
He shook his head meekly. “I’m afraid we cannot let you in.” He wanted to cry; screw his pride.
“Let him in,” she croaked to the nurse. The nurse nodded.
He looked confused and angry and frustrated. She smiled at him and his face softened, and his eyes asked why?
“I told you I couldn’t live without you.”