*Jay POV*
Darkness.
Screeching tires.
Glass shattering.
I was falling.
The road was wet.
Headlights blinded me.
I tried to move but my body wouldn’t listen.
“Jay!”
Keifer’s voice.
Panicked.
Broken.
I saw him running toward me, his face pale, rain mixing with something red on his hands.
My blood?
“Don’t close your eyes.
Jay, look at me.
Stay with me.”
His hands were shaking as he held my face.
So cold.
“Please,” he whispered, voice cracking.
“Don’t leave me.
Not like this.
Please.
I’m begging you.”
I tried to tell him I was here.
That I could hear him.
But my throat was full of something thick.
Sirens.
People shouting.
Someone screaming my name.
Then his voice broke completely.
“Stay awake.
Jay.
Jay—don’t you dare leave me.”
And then nothing.
Just white.
Endless white.
Voices echoing.
_Am I dead?_
Was this it?
Was this the last time I’d hear him say my name like that?
In the distance I thought I heard him again.
“Jay.
Come back.
Please come back to me.”
I gasped and my eyes flew open.
Hospital smell.
Beeping machines.
Fluorescent lights burning my eyes.
_Am I dead?_
“Jay!
Jay!
Finally you’re awake.”
I turned my head.
Keifer.
He looked wrecked.
Dark circles under his eyes, hair messy, the same shirt from yesterday.
Like he hadn’t slept, hadn’t left, hadn’t breathed.
My chest tightened.
“What happened?” My voice came out hoarse.
He didn’t answer.
He just pulled me into a hug and broke.
I felt his whole body shake against me.
His arms were so tight it hurt, but I didn’t care.
I was shocked.
Keifer doesn’t cry.
Keifer doesn’t break.
My own eyes burned.
I lifted my hand with effort and patted his back.
“It’s okay.
If I’m dead I’ll come in your dreams.
Don’t worry.”
He pulled back so fast and laughed.
But it was shaky, desperate, wrong.
Then he flicked my forehead.
“Ouch!
What is this for?
Are you becoming a psycho?” I muttered, but my voice cracked.
“Are you mad?” he asked, eyes red and wet.
“You’re alive.
Does it hurt anywhere now?”
His hands were still hovering over me like he was afraid to touch me and break me.
“No.
I’m fine.
My head just hurts a little.”
“Liar,” he whispered.
Then softer, “You scared me so much, Jay.
I thought—” He cut himself off and looked away.
For a moment it was just us.
No hospital.
No accident.
Just his forehead resting against mine and his breathing shaky.
I wanted to tell him I was scared too.
That I thought I’d never see him again.
But the words got stuck.
“Keifer,” I whispered.
“Thank you.
For not letting go.”
He closed his eyes.
“Don’t thank me.
Just don’t do that again.”
The door opened.
My family rushed in.
My mother came first, eyes swollen, trying to smile through tears.
She sat on the edge of my bed and held my hand so tightly it hurt.
“Baby,” she whispered.
“How are you?
Feeling better?”
I nodded.
My throat was too tight to speak.
Seeing her cry for me made my eyes burn.
My dad came in behind her.
He didn’t say much.
He just stood there for a second, like he was checking if I was really okay.
Then he came closer and rested his hand on my forehead, the way he did when I was little and had fever.
“I’m glad you’re awake, dear,” he said softly.
His voice was steady but I could hear it shaking.
“You scared us.”
That one line broke something in me.
I bit my lip so I wouldn’t cry.
“Mia?” I asked quietly, looking around.
My mother’s face softened.
“She’s at home, baby.
We didn’t bring her because of the germs.
She’s been calling every hour.
She made you soup.”
The thought of Mia at home, worried sick, made my chest ache.
My kuya came in last.
He tried to act normal, tried to joke.
“So you’re awake?
I thought you were dead.
I was already planning your funeral.
Good thing, I saved money.”
I rolled my eyes, but tears were falling now.
“You’re so stupid.”
He came and pulled me into a side hug.
“Don’t do that to us again, ha?” His voice was low.
For once, he wasn’t joking.
Then his expression changed.
He looked at Keifer.
“I found out who did this.”
The air in the room went cold.
Keifer’s jaw tightened.
“I thought it was a mistake.”
My kuya’s voice was low.
“It wasn’t.
Your uncle did this.
He knows you’re getting attached to Jay.
You need to control it, or I will handle it my way.”
For a second, Keifer didn’t move.
Then something in his eyes shifted.
The softness was gone.
The worry was gone.
What was left was terrifying.
His shoulders went rigid, his hands clenched at his sides.
The room felt smaller.
A quiet, dangerous aura surrounded him.
Like a storm waiting to break.
“Don’t worry, boss,” he said quietly.
Too quietly.
“You know me.
I can handle everything.”
My stomach dropped.
My heart was falling.
This wasn’t the Keifer who was crying 2 minutes ago.
This was the Keifer people were scared of.
My kuya nodded, then squeezed my shoulder.
“Call me if you need anything, okay?”
I nodded.
He left.
The room felt too silent after.
Keifer came closer to my bed.
All that terrifying energy was gone again, replaced with guilt.
He looked exhausted.
“Jay, I’m so sorry for all this trouble.”
I shook my head, tears still on my cheeks.
“Don’t worry!
It’s my fault too.
I wasn’t watching the road.
You don’t have to say sorry.”
He sat on the chair beside me and took my hand.
His thumb brushed over my knuckles, careful, like I’d shatter.
“You’re not allowed to joke about dying again,” he said quietly.
“I wasn’t joking,” I whispered back.
“I know.”
We didn’t talk for a while.
He just stayed.
And that was enough.
After a few minutes he cleared his throat.
“A little.”
“I’ll get you something.
Don’t move.”
He came back with porridge and water.
He didn’t ask.
He just blew on the spoon and held it to my mouth like I was five.
“Keifer I can feed myself,” I mumbled, embarrassed.
“I know,” he said.
“Let me.”
And I did.
Because arguing with him when he looked like that was impossible.
Night fell.
The hospital got quiet.
My mom fell asleep on the chair beside me, still holding my hand.
At 2am there was a soft tap on my window.
I froze.
Then I heard it.
“Jay.
Open it.”
Keifer.
He was standing outside in the dark, soaked from the rain, holding a small thermos.
“What are you doing here?” I whispered, heart pounding as I opened the window a little.
“You said you’d come in my dreams,” he said quietly, eyes tired but focused on me.
“So I came instead.”
He handed me the thermos.
Soup.
From Mia.
“I told her you’d like it warm,” he said.
I stared at him.
“You’re insane.”
“Probably,” he admitted.
Then he smiled, small and real and exhausted.
He didn’t leave.
He just stood there, leaning against the wall under my window like he was keeping watch.
“Aren’t you cold?” I whispered.
“A little,” he said.
“Doesn’t matter.”
“Keifer…”
“Hmm?”
“Come in.
Please.”
He shook his head.
“I don’t want to wake your mom.
And I don’t want to leave you alone.”
My chest tightened.
I grabbed the spare blanket from the chair and carefully passed it through the window.
Our fingers brushed.
His were freezing.
“Here.
Idiot,” I whispered.
He took it and wrapped it around his shoulders.
Then he did something that broke me — he pressed his forehead against the glass, right across from me.
Like that was the closest he could get without touching me.
“You scared me,” I whispered, voice cracking.
“I know,” he said.
“I’m sorry.”
“I thought I wasn’t gonna see you again.”
“Don’t say that.” His voice was rough.
“Don’t even joke about it.”
“I wasn’t joking,” I admitted.
He closed his eyes.
When he opened them again, all that terrifying aura from earlier was gone.
Just him.
Tired and scared.
“Then stay,” he whispered.
It wasn’t a command.
It was a plea.
“I’m not going anywhere,” I said.
“I promise.”
We didn’t talk after that.
We just stayed like that.
Me inside, wrapped in blankets.
Him outside, wrapped in mine.
The rain slowed to a drizzle.
After a while he shifted.
“Get back in bed, Jay.
You need to rest.”
“Will you be here when I wake up?”
His mouth twitched.
That tiny, tired smile.
“Try and make me leave.”
I climbed back into bed, holding the warm thermos to my chest.
My mom stirred but didn’t wake.
Before I closed my eyes I looked at the window one last time.
He was still there.
Watching.
Guarding.
And for the first time since the accident, I slept.
Deep.
Safe.
Because he was there.
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