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Author: Royalty
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Camille:

When I woke up with a splitting headache sometime later, I was more annoyed than relieved or confused. I had passed out three times in one month, something I had never experienced in my life before then.

To make matters worse, the voices I had heard before the world went black were still the same arguing voices that welcomed me back to consciousness.

“I told you we should take her to a freaking hospital!” Lucia snapped. It was as if at this point she couldn’t make a sentence addressed to her brother without it being filled with so much venom.

“And I told you she has passed out like this in front of me before and I didn’t have to take her to a hospital,” Daniel quipped, his voice thankfully low.

“When did that happen?”

“A few weeks ago. When I had to spend the night with her,” he explained further. “She just had a panic attack because you wouldn’t just let her be.”

“Me?!” Lucia asked. “She has never had a panic attack in three years of living with me, but somehow you sh
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I know I’m a broken record with this but I hope Cam opens up to Daniel about her past with her parents esp now that they want her to visit. She can’t keep this to herself and she doesn’t need to go alone. We saw how triggering her past is to her. I know I’ve fail to say this but I love this story!
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    Camille: Daniel walked in right after I got into my ward. I told him I’d just been discharged and after clearing the bill, he drove me home. I’d been so occupied with my thoughts that I almost didn’t notice Daniel was awfully quiet during the ride home. He hadn’t said much to me before we got in the car. Just planted a soft kiss on my lips and held my hand. Now we were in the car though, the silence was too strange to not be noticed. “Is everything okay, babe?” I asked him. He gave me a small smile and said nothing, but that only made me worried. “Baby,” I called again and he sighed. “You’re getting me stressed out.” After what felt like eons of him focusing on the road, he spoke. “I thought I had more time,” he said. My lips quivered. That was exactly what I dreaded to hear. I knew it was coming at some point, but not now… “You have to go back to London,” I muttered, as spelling it out would make the blow less painful. He nodded, taking a moment to stu

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    Camille: I stayed for two more days at the hospital so my wounds could heal to some degree. Lucia and my mom fell into a routine of taking turns to visit me at the hospital, both of them not wanting to cross each other’s paths. Daniel stayed by my side for the rest of my stay there, only leaving to freshen up and return after with food for me. When the doctor finally cleared me to leave, coincidentally, no one had been around. Daniel had just stepped out to freshen up for the day and my mom was working on moving her flight, while Lucia was doing whatever it was she was doing. There was still a wedge between us we couldn’t ignore. We’d been fighting before then, so turning into best buds again, especially after all I’d heard her confess would be not only hypocritical, but quite undoable for me. I supposed she felt the same way. “Won’t you wait for someone to come get you first?” The nurse who’d just given me a typed note of my discharge from the hospital as well as some medicat

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    Camille: “Doctor!” When the doctor came in, I tried to sit on my own but realized I couldn’t do anything besides moving my fingertips. Not having any control over my own body was beyond aggravating. “She can breathe on her own now, but she needs some more time to do anything else,” the doctor said after checking my vitals and taking off my oxygen mask. “It could be a few minutes or an hour. Just keep her engaged.” “How do you feel?” Daniel asked me, holding my hand. “Lift your finger twice if you’re okay and once if you don’t.” How did I feel? I honestly didn’t know how to answer that question. “It’s okay. The doctor says you’ll be able to move very well soon,” he said. He must have taken my hesitation as inability to move my finger. I lifted my finger thrice. Daniel chuckled. “I missed you.” He placed a kiss on my forehead. Lucia was by one side of the room watching me with apprehension. I could read the look on her face. She was trying to figure out how mu

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    Camille: There was silence for a long while. It seemed as though they were giving me time to process what I’d just heard. But I knew it was all in my head. They still thought I was unconscious and that was why they spilled everything. “I didn’t go after Rhea because I knew you fancied her. I already liked her. It’s not my fault she liked me back,” Daniel said. From how he sounded, I deduced he must have tried to explain that a hundred times before. “That’s bull crap and you know it,” she said offhandedly and returned to her position beside me. “It’s not,” Daniel cut in. “I accept it. I should have stepped back when you confessed how you felt about her to me and I didn’t. That makes me guilty, but you have to admit…” “Don’t say it,” she said threateningly. “She did not like you back, Lucia. That’s just the truth.” “If you hadn’t come into the picture, she would have realized her feelings for me sooner or later. How would she like me back when you of all people s

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    Camille: “Why are you such a hateful person?” Lucia snapped. “Can’t you see I’m worried about my best friend?” “I’m just saying a few hours ago you were all over your other ‘best friend’ Reggie and all of a sudden you’ve switched. You haven’t even spoken to him since and now you’re losing sleep over the same person you blamed for everything,” Daniel said. His voice was even but I could hear an edge to it. “So now you’re calling me two-faced? Let’s backtrack for a second. Aren’t you the one who’s seen her have an attack the most? Who’s the hypocrite here?” Lucia’s voice was too loud. My head was pounding. Everywhere was a blurry red, but I could make out their faces and voices. If this was my after life, then I was f*cked. I knew I wasn’t dead though. My headache was way too real. Maybe this was another hallucination just like all the others I’d been having. They’d all been terrifying. I was now on a hospital bed, but then Daniel and Lucia were arguing again. Was this

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