I didn't care about anything else because sitting right in front of me on the bed was Ace.

His eyes immediately shot up. He was staring at me and I could feel tears brimming at the back of my eyes as I stared back at him.

"Ma'am are you listening to me?" I could feel the doctors talking but I couldn't hear what they were saying, it was like him and I were in a mental trance. That gaze of his just left me frozen and I couldn't move right now even if I wanted to.

All I knew was that I could feel tears pouring out of my eyes as I kept staring at that face I longed to see every single day for the last seven months.

"Isabelle!" the nurse shook me lightly which brought me back from the trance and I looked at her as she has a warm smile on her face.

"You can't see him right now. We need to run some tests then I'll let you know the minute you're allowed to see him," she gently pushed me out of room but my eyes were still fixated on his and he wasn't moving a muscle as he kept staring back at me with the same intensity.

The door closed and I felt Alex behind me as he lightly took my arm and led me towards the chairs.

"Sit down, Jelly Belly. It's about time," I could sense the glint of happiness in his voice as he said that.

"He's awake Alex....Ace is awake," I finally felt the happiness and realistion dawn upon me as a sob escaped my lip.

Alex pulled me in a hug and I tightly hugged him back as a smile crept up on my lips, I could feel my senses coming back to me.

I saw Noah running out from the elevator with Emily hot on her heels and my happiness doubled. It was happening. The moment we've all been waiting for.

"Did you see him? For God's sake did anybody seem him yet?" Noah's face was a mix was emotions. There was panic, happiness, confusion and well...more confusion.

"Belle did," Alex piped in as he let go of me.

"Did you?!" Emily sat beside me and I nodded.

"Kind of. I didn't get to talk to him. They kicked me out," I said and Emily grinned.

"Holy shit, it's happening," Noah took a seat opposite to me and dragged a hand down his face.

"I know right!"

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"You can go inside," the nurse smiled. She knew it was a big day for us all and although it was five in the morning and all of us didn't get much sleep, we were fresh as hell.

"Okay...." now there was this awkward silence, none of us knew how to gather the strength to walk into that room.

We all started walking towards the door. Now usually they'd tell us to go in one by one or in pairs but the thing was, if we'd stick with that, nobody would be able to decide who's going in first and we'd spend all morning sitting here bickering so we decided to go in together.

Alex opened the door and we saw Ace laying down on the bed. His arm was over his head covering his eyes.

None of us took a step in. We were just standing at the door staring at him.

"Come inside you dumb fucks," there it was, his voice. He spoke as all of us exchanged glances before finally exploding.

"Oh my God!"

"I still cannot believe this."

"Holy fucking shit!"

"Jesus Christ, it's him!"

All of us made our towards the bed and Ace removed his hand from his head as he looked at us and his face broke into a grin.

"Dickhead," Alex went nearer and gave him a side hug as Emily and Noah both grinned and walked over towards the bed.

The three of them went closer to him but I couldn't move my legs. I just stood there in the doorway staring at him and praying that all of this wasn't a dream.

They talked for a few seconds but instantly noticed that I still was standing there away from them like a statue.

"Hey, Belle," Noah called out and motioned for me to come towards the bed.

Emily stood up and came over towards me as she wrapped her arm around me with a warm smile on her face, "It's okay. Come on."

She took me towards the bed all while Ace has his eyes fixated at me. She sat me down right beside him on the bed and I lifted my eyes up to look at him to find him already staring at me with an emotion I couldn't decipher.

He gently moved his hands towards mine and interlaced my fingers with his in the exact same way I used to do all these months and that was when the first sob escaped my lip and I lunged myself at him as I wrapped my arms around his neck and he pulled me towards his chest by my waist.

I buried my head in the crook of his neck and cried as I tightly held onto him and he did the same as he kissed my hair over and over again all while whispering sweet things in my ear.

"It's okay, Princess. I'm here now," he held my face in his hand and made me look at him and my tears just poured out like a waterfall even more after hearing him call me that.

I noticed that the three of them had gone outside, probably to give us alone time. Little did they know that we could see them peeking in from the glass window.

"I missed you so much," I said in between my sobs which caused his face to break into a small smile.

"I know. I've missed you, too," he kissed my forehead and I closed my eyes, savoring the moment.

"Do you know how hard it was for me when you sat here talking to me and I couldn't lift my hand up to touch you? I couldn't tell you how proud I was of you for handling everything like the queen you are? I couldn't hold your hand and tell you it was going to be all okay whenever you broke down?"

"You....you were conscious?"

"Of course, baby. Everyday when you came here to sit beside me, I heard you, I understood you. And I don't think I could have ever been able to come out of this if it weren't for you. Isabelle you were my light. My hope. When I could see nothing but darkness in there, you were that light I saw far far away that gave me hope and helped me get through every single day."

His words made my eyes water once again and I hugged him closer to me, so glad that I was finally able to feel his arms around my body.

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Hiiiii you guys. I'm sorry for being bit of a pain lately lol, it's hard to write when you have 74615925342 thoughts running through your mind.