Emily's POV
The sound of beeping monitors accompanied me from my dreams, a dream where I was underwater and screaming and no one heard me, I just kept getting pulled under. Now, my mother's tear-stained face is what greets me. I'm trying to remember what I'm doing in a hospital, wait! It's my wedding day! And then the rush of memories return with the sickening taste of pain in the back of my throat. The tears are already freefalling and I can feel that drowning feeling creep up the back of my neck. "Where is he?" I asked the nurse attending to me and she looked at me with sympathy and said, " Ms. Hayes, please wait a minute, the doctor will be with you soon". I hate hospitals and I hate being treated like I'm the one that got into the accident, so I shout into the room, "For the love of Christ! Where is my husband and where is the damn doctor?!" A woman in an ugly grey scrub saunters into my room, looks at my sobbing mother and says nothing. She walks up to me and says, "Ms. Hayes, I'm sorry about what you must be feeling right now, but you need to be calm and careful for you and the baby". Everything freezes at this moment, I turn wide eyes to see my mom's sob increase, and the only words that can form from my fear-etched brain is 'Baby? What baby?" The doctor pulls a chair closer to me, sits in it, places her hand on my thighs, and says, "Congratulations ms. Hayes, you're 6 weeks pregnant."
I should be happy right? It's a thing of joy, me and the missing man of my dreams expecting a baby together, but where is the man in question? I throw a quick thank you to the doctor and climb down from the bed, my muscles are a little weak from lack of usage, but I muster strength to go in search of Ethan since no one is saying anything. My mom watches me and my newfound determination and asks, "Where are you going?", I reply, "To go look for Ethan" She drops her eyes to her lap and whispers until I almost don't hear, but I'm close enough to hear her say "he's gone, his parents flew him across the world for his surgery, he was in very bad shape when he was found" and for the second time in a row, I lose consciousness.