Chapter 23

"Isabella Dawson"

I woke up on Nathan's arm and he is still asleep, soundly. He seems a bit cold, so I pulled up the blanket to cover our naked body. He then pulled me closer to me, where our faces just inches away.

I slide some of his hair that covering his eyes. Then my finger slides down to his jaw line which looked so sharp that almost gave me a cut.

I saw his cheeks move a bit, as if like he was controlling from smiling.

"Why are you awake so early?" He said with a raspy voice without opening his eyes.

"I feel a bit cold...so I pulled the blanket when you, *pinch his nose* pull me closer to you. So I just can't resist myself from examining my good looking husband."

He laughed. "Just like the old times, huh?"

I raise one of my eyebrows. "What do you mean?"

He pulls me into his hug and then rests his chin on my forehead.

"The day when you got sick and I slept with you, remember?"

"B-but...you're sleeping, how..c-cou..."

He cut me in. "I already awake that time. And you're staring at me, touching my cheek like just now."

I pushed him a bit so I could face him again. "I really thought that you still asleep that time."

He opens his eyes, revealing his beautiful ocean eyes. "No, I wasn't, I just pretend to sleep that time."

"You, you're so mean, Nathan." I pinched his cheeks.

He laughed. "Don't be mad....I'm just curious why you looked at me like that. Seriously, I really don't know that you already in love with me that time. But now I'm madly in love with you. *tickles my right side* What did you do to me? *tickles more* Tell me..Bella...tell me now...."

"Stop it *laugh* it's ticklish. Please, Nathan." I was struggling to stop him from tickling me.

"Alright....alright....I'll stop now."

I took a deep breath and exhaled it back, he totally makes me tired of laughing.

"You're so mean!!" I whined.

He chuckled. "Sorry about that."

I rest my head on his chest, listening every of his heartbeats while he was playing with my long hair.

"Can I ask you something." He suddenly spoke after a minute of silence. "But please don't be mad, okay?"

"Mmm...what is it?" I answered while twirling my finger in a circular motion around his bare chest.

"Alright... *breathe in*... um... if I one day I had an accident and lost my memory, how are you gonna make me remember you?"

I move a bit so I could face my husband. "Seriously, Nathan?"

He nodded. "Yeah....I'm totally serious right now."

Why I feel a bad feeling when heard his weird question.

"Bella? Baby?" He snapped his finger. "Hello....are you listening to me?"

"U-um....yes." I replied.

"So, what are you gonna do?" He is waiting for my answer. "To make me remember back about you?"

I sighed. "Fine.... since you eager to know, I'll tell you, this instant. I will recreate all the memory that we have together, our dates, our sweet words, how we first met, how you confessed your feeling to me and besides, since I'm studying in medical, I will try my best to find a way to bring back your memory."

He suddenly hugs me tightly that made me hardly to breathe. "You're the best wife ever, Bella and I love you so much."

"Na-Nathan.....I....I c-can't breathe."

He quickly breaks the hug. "Oopps....sorry." he then gave me a grin.

"Now stop talking nonsense. You're scaring me."

"Okay, I'm so sorry for scaring you." He poked gently on my forehead.

I rubbed his messy hair. "Attaboy."

*

The day Nathan will depart to New York...

I helped Nathan to tie his necktie around his neck. My heart feels so heavy to let him go to the business trip, although it's only a week.

"Hey, why are you look so sad?" He lifts my chin a bit. "Are you okay?"

I faked a smile to him. "I'm fine."

He puts his hands around my waist. "I promise I will return home after finish all my works there. Then we will go out for a date."

"I'll miss you, Nathan." I hug him tightly.

He hugs me back. "I'll miss you too, Baby."

He planted a kiss on my forehead after breaking the hug. "I'll be going now, okay?"

I nodded. "Be safe..."

He took his luggage and walk towards the front door.

"Nathan...." I stopped him by grabbing his arm.

"Yes..." he turned his head in my direction.

I took big paces towards him and kissed him deeply on his lips. "I love you, Nathan." I said between our kisses.

He smiled. "I love you too, my Baby."

*

At the airport...

"General"

"I will keep an eye on him, sir... Besides, he looks like an idiot, I bet he doesn't know anything about our business world... yes sir.... the secret is still safe among us. The last person that ever knew about it already executed from this world. Don't worry sir...."

Nathan suddenly entered the bathroom when he saw Thomas was talking with someone on the phone.

Actually, he doesn't hear anything but Thomas thought he had heard every word that he said through the phone.

"I'm sorry, sir," he said through his phone again. "I must execute the plan B...." he hung the phone.

The clueless Nathan quickly settled his business when saw Thomas gave him a death glare as his eyes met Thomas's.

'What is wrong with him?' He thought. 'He's creeping me out.'

"Mr Harrison," he called Nathan.

"Y-yeah...." he stuttered a bit.

"I received a text that the jet already arrived." Thomas gave a smile to him. "I think we should go now."

Nathan swallowed hard. "A-alright, then. I'll inform to my friend, now."

Mr Drake's private jet already waiting for them on the runway and was ready to take off.

Nathan and Seth entered the jet followed by Thomas who instructed something to the pilot and his other assistants.

In the jet, from LAX to the New York....

"Seth Pearson"

I was talking to with my friend when a stewardess brought us the juices while Thomas, Mr Drake assistant was sleeping behind us.

"Thanks," I said to the stewardess followed by my friend, Nathan.

"So Seth, did you plan your proposal yet?" That idiot purposely asked me that question.

I drink the juice a bit and it tasted, weird. But I keep drinking it since I feel a bit thirsty, now.

"I was working on it....just please don't keep asking about it. You'll ruin it if someone knows about it, dope." My head starts to dizzy so sudden.

I look at Nathan and he already passed out after drinking that juice all at once.

"Na-Nathan....." My eyesight now, slowly becomes dark and I'm now totally lost conscious.

*

"Hey hedgehog!!!" I heard Nathan's voice was calling for me and he sounds panicked. "Wake up!!!

I hardly opened my heavy my eyes and my head is dizzy so much.

"Wake up, now!!!" This time he shakes my body to wake me up.

"W-what... what happened?" I asked him, totally wide awake now, but still feeling a less dizzy than before.

"We are in trouble. Thomas was hit by a masked man. A-and I don't know who he was." He looks so in panic.

"Where are they now?"

"They were in there, in the cockpit."

"What happens to your shoulder?" I saw the blood coming from the wound on his shoulder that looks like he has been shot.

"That mask man shot me. But don't worry, it's only a scratch."

"Wait here, I need to check on something."

Nathan grabbed my arm. "No!!! I'm coming too."

"Don't be stupid, Nathan! You're already injured. If something happens to you, I-I don't know what to say to your wife. And I just can't forgive myself either."

He scoffed. "Nonsense, we'll be safe, hedgehog. Trust me."

I look at him for a while before agreeing with his words. "Okay then. Let's go."

I wear the parachute and slowly approached the cockpit with Nathan. In there, we saw Thomas was tied to the chair and the masked man was pointing a gun at him.

"Look, he is wearing the parachute too. We need to steal it from him." I whispered to Nathan.

He only nodded.

"I'll be count of three.... you safe Thomas and I'll handle him."

One....

Two.....

Three.......

I pushed the mask man and he falls hard on the jet floor while Nathan saves the unconscious Thomas.

"Bring him out!!!!" I shouted to Nathan.

The loud bang heard and I feel a sudden pain in my shoulder.

"Seth!!!" Nathan who already brought Thomas out from the cockpit came back to save me.

But the mask man once again shot him straight in his right chest.

"No!!!!!" I shouted when saw my friend fall with the blood all over his shirt.

No....no....Nathan!!!!

Nathan didn't move a bit, not even slightly after he got shot.

No....h-he can't be d-dead.

The mask man then shoots the flight instruments that cause the jet becomes failure and starts to dive towards the ground.

Oh no...we are so in trouble this time!

That mask man managed to get away from me and took Thomas along with him.

I need to grab Nathan quick or he will be flying out from the jet when the mask man opens the emergency door.

I endure the pain from the wound shot in my shoulder for awhile so I could grab the unconscious Nathan.

The mask man then flew out with unconscious Thomas leaving us alone in the failure jet as he opened the door.

Okay, it's my turn now.... I need to save Nathan quickly. He needs an attention in instant because he's bleeding a lot now.

I put on the parachute properly so it can hold us both.

Just hold on for awhile, dope.

Please don't die yet.

I made my way from the falling jet and ready to pull out the parachute. Nathan still unconscious, but I make sure that he never falls from by holding him tightly.

I pulled the parachute and it works. But only for a temporary, since we were too heavy for the parachute to hold on us.

Luckily, there was an ocean below us and the beach, seems so close enough. I wait for the suitable height for me to release the parachute from us.

But unfortunately, I lost my grip from Nathan because of my slippery hand that was covered with the blood that coming from my bleeding shoulder.

"No....Nathan!!!!"

My unconscious best friend falls straight in the water and I was unable to save him because I was stuck with the rope at the parachute.

I no longer see him as the wind blew this stupid parachute and brought me to the other place, far from the place that he fell.

This stupid parachute is now stuck in a big tree. I unbuckled the parachute from me and then fell hard on the ground.

I couldn't move my right leg, maybe it was broken from the hard falling. Nathan's face was flashing in my mind that made my tears begin to fall on my cheeks.

It was all my faults.

I'm too weak to hold him.

He died because I lost the grip.

What am I going to say to his wife…I just can't say I lost the grip that made him fell. Oh God…I am such a loser.

I'm truly sorry, Bella, I failed to save him.