Oblivion

Chapter 56

Paxton Clark

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Ivy,

I haven't been feeling well, I'm not sure what is happening to me. I feel like I'm slowly dying. The doctors are saying I'm not eating well, they aren't wrong. I stopped eating, I just feel sick every time I try to eat food. I don't want to say it's because of you, but I'm afraid it is. I'm stuck.

I'm waiting for you like you're alive. It's too hard for me to accept the fact you're gone. But you are. My friend Victor stays in the cell across from mine, he said I was lucky to have you in my life. And he was right. He told me that he'd always been jealous of you and I, it was hard to believe but it's true. He wanted a love like ours. Everyone wants a love like ours, Ivy. Do you know the meaning of your name? I really want to know. I love your name, Ivy.

-Sick guy

I woke up to a bright light shining onto my face. I jolted up and looked around me and saw a man dressed in a long white coat, he looked like a doctor. I was in my cell and no one was near me except for a guard and this doctor.

The doctor started putting his stuff back into his first aid kit.

"What happened?" I asked him.

"You passed out." He answers. "Have you been eating?" He questions.

"No." I reply.

"That explains why you passed out like that." He says.

"Am I gonna be okay?" I question.

"You have to eat a lot. Your body is coming weak." He explains.

I nod and look down at my lap.

"I'll make sure they get you some food, you should rest for a bit." He tells me before walking out of my cell.

I lay back down in my uncomfortable bed and stare up at the ceiling.

Something was happening to me, I was weak, broken and it was because of a girl who I'm madly in love with. It's been months since that night and I still couldn't forget her, I can't ever love someone the way I loved her.

"Paxton?" I hear a voice say.

I sit up to see Victor standing on the other sides of the bars.

"Hey." I say.

"How are you feeling, man?" He asks.

"Terrible." I reply.

"I'm sorry." He blurts out.

"For what?"

"For all those times, I made fun of you. I guess I was jealous of what you had with Ivy, the fact that you two loved each other so much." He explains.

Victor got arrested for killing his wife, he was an alcoholic. He wasn't able to control himself.

I don't say anything and let me go on.

"I've seen video's of you and Ivy on the news." He says.

"You do?" I question.

I never watch the news, I was always in my cell crying, I didn't bother to look.

"Yeah, when you first came here you were all over the news. They put the camera footage of the two of you walking into hotel lobbies together and when you hit that guy in the parking lot on there. I could tell you guys were mad at eachother." He explained.

I thought back to the parking lot where we knocked out Albert. I was mad at her because she wouldn't admit her feelings and that she acted like she didn't remember our "almost kiss".

"You're a lucky guy, Paxton. Anyone would die to have what you had with her." He admits.

I stare at him.

"Thanks Victor." I say.

He smiles at me.

"Get some rest. You look dead." He tells me.

I chuckle before nodding in agreement.

I watched him walk down the hall towards the cafeteria, and I was left alone in my cell.

I was lucky to have her. I know she's out there somewhere.