Jayden had come back in and was sitting silently in the corner looking deep in thought. She can't stop herself not to ask him.

"Is everything okay with you? You seem different. You're not acting like you normally do." she said to him softly.

He spared her a glance and shook his head. They elapsed into yet another awkward silence.

"I informed your parents by the way. You can rest easy."

She slowly nodded her head then said, "Okay."

And yet they got into one of the infamous awkward silences. It was beginning to get a little stuffy in here. It used to be more fun around Jayden before but suddenly he changed. Whatever was eating him up as- it suddenly dawned on her!! Of course!!! Why didn't she think of it?!

"Jayden, what exactly caused the accident then if we weren't drunk? Or were we drunk? Please tell me." He looked at her deeply then stood up and went over to the window.

"I'd gotten you to come to see my parents with me, sort of blind them, and make them think I was straight so that they'd hand over the company faster? You agreed to it, of course, coz you got me," he paused and smiled at her, "but it didn't go so well. They were being disrespectful to you and my mother was on my last nerves so I stormed out tagging you along. I was so mad and my thoughts were running wild. I was distracted and drove recklessly, the next thing I knew we were in the path of an out of control lorry, as I tried to evade it..." he took a long pause and just stared out the window. She noticed hed fisted his hands tightly by his sides as he struggled to let out the next words, "by trying to evade it, I swerved the car right and you took all the damage from the collision. They say it's a miracle we even made it out alive from a collision with a lorry but here we are." he took huge steps as he came over to sit next to her. "I'm so sorry Jiaye." he leaned in and hugged her softly but she could feel it was heartfelt. He was probably scared of her injuries... Or his...

"It's all my fault that we ended up this way-heck that you ended up losing your memory." He looks so sad like everything had fallen into a sudden tragic accident but would never be fixed.

She looked at him at a loss for words. None of this made any sense, she didn't remember any of it. She knew he obviously couldn't be lying but then it just didn't make sense! She couldn't remember any of it and yet somehow she was expected to be the one to soothe him because clearly, he was in a state worse than hers.

"You don't have to pin it all on yourself, okay? You tried as much as you could and we still ended up in the same predicament. It's as simple as that. Don't burden yourself. There's no need for you to beat yourself up and it was probably even the fault of the other driver. He might have been drunk or asleep or whatever. We'd never know-"

" YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND JIAYE!" He shouted out interrupting her as he punched the wall. If that didn't leave an indentation on the wall that wall must be made of some solid a.s.s bricks and he must have hurt his hand horribly." WHY ARE YOU THE ONE WHO HAD TO END UP LIKE THIS?! DON'T YOU GET IT??!! ALL THIS WAS MY IDEA!" He took a calming breath and continued in a quieter voice, "this whole trip to Paris, seeing my parents first before going on the stupid road trip. If only I wasn't so self-absorbed and thought more about you instead of me me me! We wouldn't even be here right now!"

Jiaye sighed softly then placed her hand on his shoulder.

" Look, I don't know if you know this but I have no idea what the f.u.c.k it is you're talking about, so can you just take a chill pill, bring my wheelchair and take me out for some goddamn fresh air? Can you do that?" she asked him

"You don't deserve any of this." he leaned in and kissed her forehead then stood up to go fetch the wheelchair.

The sky was beautiful at this time of day, it wasn't too hot or too breezy, and they'd found the perfect spot. Many people were walking around, some of the hospital staff, other patients with their loved ones and others were just plain old civilians enjoying the scenario.

"I wish we could come at night and see the night sky," She told Jayden wistfully. He seemed a bit more of himself after that little episode in the room.

"Babe, you're the wife of Maddie and Jayden Tian's best friend. I'm sure if we asked 'nicely'" he used air quotes there, "a few rules could be bent in our favor. Don't you think?" he said gently trying to make her feel better.

"Yes! I'd forgotten about that for a moment there." She laughed a bit heartily. "Will you still be around then?"

"Naah. Maybe your parents will be here? Or you could get a nurse?"

Her shoulders sagged dramatically.

"It won't be the same and you know it!" She told him pouting.

"Yes, baby girl. No one is as awesome as I am. But honestly, now that you're up and running, I need to go back home and do a little self-love routine. I'm sure I smell like a pigsty right now and look like a wreck. I haven't had a shower or rested well in days. Call me if you need anything though, okay?" Jayden said

"Does that include me calling you in the evening to come to keep me company?" She gave him her best puppy dog eyes but he just laughed.

"Please, you've subjected me to that look for years. I'm immune now. Try it on someone else."

She g.r.o.a.n.e.d loudly then let out in a defeated voice, "Fine, you win." then after thinking a bit, she added, "but you haven't seen the last of these eyes. I'll perfect my puppy dogs and you won't know what hit you." he just laughed and plopped down beside her resting on his back.