I left her room, still bothered and decided to take a shower as she had said. While I was in the bathroom, Jessica's message came into my phone and she reminded me about our meeting at the park that day. I finished with my shower and went out to a nearby restaurant to have bread for breakfast. I ate reluctantly, with flashes of the dream still invading my already my possessed thoughts. It dawned on me at that moment that I had no one to share this with and so I waited for Jessica at the restaurant. When she arrived, I tried to pretend like all was well with me but she somehow noticed my bothered look. She was looking pretty but I was in no mood to complement her at that moment. She asked me continuously and I saw pain and love in her eyes at the same time and I found solace in her care.
I simply asked her if we had met before I saw her at the hospital. She asked me why I asked, I told her not to bother about the question, that I must have been having some crazy thoughts due to my recent sleepless nights. I saw tears roll down from her cheeks and I was clueless. I did not know what to say, so I played dumb. She told me that she had waited 10 years for me to remember. I cut her speech short abruptly and asked her what she was talking about, at this moment there was a puzzled look on my face. She replied me, saying that what if she told me that we had met before. This was a bewildering question for me and I sought more answers.
She was already confused and she said that we should go to the park. I followed her to the park with an unsettled mind. When we got to the park, we took a stroll and sat on a rock; she stared at the rock for a long time and read out the words that were inscribed on it. She read out the words, "Jessica and Andrew, together forever". I was now more than confused at this juncture. So, I decided to take a look for myself and I saw the exact same words. I looked her straight in the eyes and I saw the pains of patience and the love of several years. I could not hold back the tears from my eyes, they rolled slowly and in little bits. She was already drenched in her tears and I embraced her, trying to pacify her.
She asked me to sit down, that she was going to tell me all about it. I obeyed her without any hesitation at all, still trying to put myself together. She told me that I wrote the words on the rock as she touched it slowly. Immediately, I saw blurred flashbacks when I used a small rock to inscribe those words. I did not tell Jessica about what I just saw and tried to listen to every bit of what she had to say to me. She told me that we used to be lovers when we were about eighteen years old and that we were so tightly knitted and inseparable. She said that our parents knew about this and gave consent to our relationship at that time. She said that we dated each other for about four years before the tragic accident that I had.
She cried when she spat at these words, she added that it was our fourth anniversary since we had been dating and that we were to meet at this park that day. She told me that she asked me to bring her flowers on that very day, but I was running late for our meeting. She said that she called me that day and I was driving and smiling during the call and that the next thing that she heard was a terrible noise. She said that she was stunned and was already crying when she did not hear my voice again. She shouted my name severally and I gave her no response, so she knew that I must have had a ghastly accident. She was in tears and had to call my parents to inform them about it at that very moment.
She told me that she met me in the hospital in a pitiable condition and that she cried with guilt as she saw me, knowing fully well that she landed me in that state. I felt sorry for her at this point and had to console her, so I tapped her back repeatedly to comfort her. She told me that it was alright and she cried the more, it was like an outburst of emotions which had been bottled up.