BROKEN (Sequel to Behind The Lights)

Jessica's POV

He's dead! It's finally over. I couldn't believe it. He's actually gone. Of all the time, he chose to die after robbing me of the most important thing.

My throat felt so dry when I first opened my mouth. This is the first time I'd spoken in 4 days. The first time I'd found the will to speak. I've been mad at the world and mad at everybody for what happened to me and I know it's not their fault but I was angry.

I still am but this news just made me feel a little better. They said his car caught fire and he was burnt to death. Which means it must have been a painful death.

I do feel a little heartbroken cause I did love him once. I know, what the heck right? After what he did to me. But for the most part, I'm actually happy he felt the pain of the fire burning his skin to crips. Karma's a bitch.

"Good afternoon, Hows it going?" My doctor asks us as she walks in with a smile on her face.

"Hi Sarah, She's doing pretty good today," Zac answers for me. Sarah? They're on first name terms now? How long was I out?

"That's good to hear. Jessica, How are you feeling?" She asks as she places her clipboard on the table and walks over to me.

"I want to go home," I tell her as it is. I was starting to get sick of this place.

"You do seem to be doing really well today." She says as she begins examining me, checking my heartbeat and my eyes and stuff. "It's nice to see you're up and talking, that's really great progress." She speaks to me like I'm a 5-year-old kid. I just give her a fake smile and mentally roll my eyes.

I can sense that Zac and my Doctor have a certain connection I can't quite put my finger on and it actually bothers me a little

"So can I go home then?" I ask her.

"Yea you can but after we monitor you for one full day and if it's all good, you can leave tomorrow." She says and I feel Zac wrap his arms around my shoulder encouragingly and I notice my doctor's eyes immediately darts to his action.

Hmm... "Still having nightmares?" She asks me and I tense up a little at the thought of those repeated nightmares I've been having. All involving Jason attacking me.

"No, not really." I lie. I had to. If I wanted to get out of here as soon as possible, I had to do whatever it takes. "Alright then, I'll check on you later in the evening." She says, leaving the room.

"Thanks, Sarah," He says.

"You want to talk about it?" He asks me, taking a seat at the side of my bed. He's been so nice to me the whole time but why do I feel irritated when I look at him? He did nothing bad to me.

"I want to sleep. I'm tired, Zac." I said weakly as I turn away from him and lay down. After a few seconds, I hear him leave the room, shutting the door behind him.

"No way... you did not. *giggles*"

"I totally did."

"You're a horrible person Zac *giggles*"

I wake up to the voice of a woman, I recognize as my doctor, and Zac chatting. More like flirting away. I stay in the same position to listen clearer to their chatters

"Hey, how about we go down and get some coffee?" She asks him.

"I don't know... I'm afraid she wakes up and I'm not here. She hasn't eaten the lunch I brought her." He says and I smile internally at how thoughtful Zac is and has always been.

"Ah, please. She's a big girl. She'll be able to get the food herself." Bitch! How dare she? I already don't like this doctor of mine.

"Haha... yea, you're probably right. Okay, let's go get that coffee and you can tell me more about your little Fiji accident." I hear him say as she giggles away annoyingly.

The minute they leave, I sit up in my bed, confused and frustrated. When did this even happen?

They're all over each other. What does he even see in her? I mean yea, she's pretty, she's smart and kind cause she's a doctor and all that but, I'm smart and kind too.

Wait, what the hell is wrong with me? Why am I so affected by this? Zac isn't even my boyfriend. I wonder what she thinks Zac and my relationship is. Maybe he told her that we're not together but still..... Arghhh!

I decide to push that thought behind and attend to my growling tummy as I reach for the sushi Zac had bought me earlier today.

"Oops, I'm so sorry, I'm looking for a Becca Wood, you don't by any chance share this room do you?" A random hot, chocolate dude with pearly white teeth ask as he budges into my room.

"Hmm.... nope, just me with one bed," I say, a little confused.

"Alright, I'm sorry to ruin your lunch, have a nice day." He says walking out a little embarrassed. I brush it off and continue eating my sushi.

About an hour later, Zac comes back into the room with coffee in his hand and a brown takeaway bag in the other.

"Where did you go?" I ask him and he stops in his tracks abruptly. He looks at me and a smile appears on his face. What was that all about?

"You ate the lunch I brought you." He says, looking at the empty take away container on the table in amusement.

"I was hungry." I say shrugging. "Thanks for the sushi, it was delicious." I tell him and he walks over to me, sitting on side of my bed. He stares into my eyes and brushes my curl away from my head. I watch him intently, a little confused by all this.

"I'm glad." He says. "I brought you coffee and a vanilla muffin In case you get hungry. He says, getting up to place the stuff on the side table.

"Where did you go?" I ask him again.

"Oh... hmm... just went down to get some coffee." He says, not mentioning a certain doctor.

"Oh, alone?" I ask. I wanted to see if he was going to lie to me. Not that it was any of my business.

"Hmm... no... I actually had coffee with Ummm... your doctor. Sarah." He says, a little too casually.

"Oh, so you guys hang out a lot?" I ask. I know I sound like I'm interrogating but I really had to know.

"Yea, well... she's pretty cool." He says, still rummaging through my bedside table, arranging stuff.

"Ah, you must really like her huh?" I say as casually as possible on the outside and inside I was annoyed that he thought she was cool. She's a doctor. Nice, yes but cool?

"Why? Would that bother you?" He asks, stopping whatever he was doing, he turns to look at me.

Yes! Yes, it bothers me, what kind of question is that? But instead, I said. "What? Nooo! It's none of my business. Do what makes you happy Zac."

"Jess, if it bothers you, you can tell me you know. I'll stop going to coffee with her." He says, gently. Not in a patronizing way.

"Pfftt... what the heck? You're not my boyfriend Zac. You can have coffee with whoever you want. That's none of my business." I say.

"Why would you stop though? If it bothered me?" I ask him. I sort of already knew the answer to that but I still wanted to hear him say it. For assuarance sake

"You know exactly why." He says, turning away from me and I just nod to myself. Satisfied that he's still mine. I know, I'm a bitch for being like this. I do care about Zac too but I need time to deal with my issues first.