I know it has been forever and I am a fail at life for taking this long to review. BUT, seriously sophomore year is like the year for gigantic projects that determine if you succeed in high school or not. And that's all I have been doing all year long. It has been a very hectic year. I can't believe it has almost been two years since I started this story. ACK my updating skills fail! T_T. But here you go. It is finally here!

The LAST CHAPTER of Forgetting Yesterday is here. And hopefully most of your questions will be answered, so enjoy!

Disclaimer: Do I really need one by now? I mean come on, really?

Chapter19: Forgetting Yesterday

IPOV

I could hear them. Every single one of them was as clear as a bell. I could hear everything. The only problem was, all the pain I felt. So much pain, and groggy tiredness washed over me. I felt the overwhelming desire to continue just lying there and fall back asleep. Yeah sleep would be nice, wouldn't it? Though now was not the time to sleep. I could still hear everyone around me, which meant I wasn't dead. Yet. I would not give in so easily and die today, or tomorrow. Or anytime soon.

I will fight and fight to live, and even when the flame of hope seems like it's just about to burn out, I will NOT give in to death. Not today baby. I know I really should have been a motivational speaker, right?

Beep. Beep. Beep. The sound of a heart monitor began to break my thoughts and I frowned to myself. Mine? Could that be my heart monitor? Did that mean?

Which meant there was still time, still time to fight. Fight Iggy, fight! With one last thought I felt myself escape the darkness, and break free. I was no longer trapped in the darkness and now I was in my usual black sight. If I was free, did that mean I had won?

Silence.

That was all I heard in the next following seconds, just complete silence. It was the longest few seconds of my entire life filled with pure silence.

"Iddy! Iddy" The silence was broken by the sobs of none other than lovable Ari. His sobs seemed to ring so much louder now than ever before and I never felt happier to hear such loud cries. Intakes of breaths followed along with the sound of shuffling footsteps, beside my bedside. Until I began to feel things - people? - at my side.

"I-Iggy?" Max whispered. I had never been so relieved to hear their voices, and to be unable to see their faces. For the first time I was relieved to be blind. I had made it. I was alive.

Alive…

"Can you hear us? Iggy?" Star's voice was the closest to my side out of anyone in the room. Then, I think I blinked at her. Everything still felt overwhelming and tiring. I was still disoriented with everything at the moment. A mixture between the feeling of a rush on drugs (basically being a high crack-head ) and numbness. Again I hoped I moved and blinked at the others.

"Iggy! Iggy! You're alive!" Every single one of them seemed to yell all at once. I attempted to open my mouth in order to answer, only to find it raw and…occupied? What the hell?

"Iggy don't speak sweetie." Mrs. Ma- No, I mean mom whispered. "They have a mask and breathing tube on you, in order to give your lungs oxygen. Save your voice." Her own voice was so warm, so kind and inviting. Just what I missed.

"Once again son you never stop fighting, even against all odds." Mr. M- I mean dad murmured. His voice was hoarse and thick, almost as if he had been crying. I think I smiled at him.

"It's a miracle." An unfamiliar voice breathed to the left of me. Slow panic stuck inside my chest. "You my boy are a miracle; to be here, to be alive!" Upon this news I felt myself begin to move. The bed was rolling away from the others. Out of habit I began to visibly panic.

"Hey, hey, hey. Ig we're right here with you. You're fine with us." Fang's unmistakable voice said in comfort.

"We'll be right here by your side the whole time. Nothing's ever going to happen to you again, with us." Star added in a whisper. Relaxing, I laid back down on the pillow sighing inwardly. "It's finally over."

Sleep made its way and washed over me; once again I felt my eyes struggling to stay open, fluttering uselessly. The only sound keeping me from panicking once again was the steady beat of my own heart monitor.

Beep. Beep. Beep…

"Sleep Iggy. Sleep. We'll all be here with you when you wake up."

I had survived the impossible. I had finally beaten my past.

Linelinelinelineline

This time, with a groan, I could feel my eyes open slowly. They fluttered twice until they were finally open, for good this time. Even though my vision was still black, I wasn't upset, I was overjoyed. Noise was all around me.

Soft noises with hushed whispers filled my ears, but to me they were loud and clear as a bell. I could hear it all and I couldn't help but smile.

Silently I decided to simply listen and wait. Mr. and Mrs. M- I mean mom and dad - were talking quietly outside amongst themselves and the doctor. Gazzy, Angel and Nudge all seemed to be together and talking to one another. Gazzy was making some perverted joke about Nudge, said person hissed at her boyfriend. While Max and Fang seemed to be talking to…officers? I think. Star was asleep near them. But where was…?

"Iddy!" Ari whispered as quietly and as excitedly as the three year old could. "Iddy you awake!" In the next seconds, he had climbed on my bed wrapping two skinny arms around me gently. His hug felt warmer than usual today.

"I be quiet for Iddy. Shh," Ari continued to whisper next to me, as he shuffled gently to lay down. "We stay quiet. Dat way, is just you and me." Ari giggled inside his hand as he shifted. I winced for a moment before smiling. Life was finally better. "No one else know Iddy awake yet. Shhh."

"That's right, shhh." I murmured hoarsely. Ari giggled again and I felt my heart soar. Hearing hid laughter once more, instead of his tiny sobs, was nothing I would ever stop wanting to hear. For a while it was silent between the two of us. We simply lay on the bed together, Ari's skinny arms still wrapped around myself, enjoying the peace. Finally.

There was no need for any words at the moment; no need to break the silence at all. The smiles and calm around us was enough to paint a picture worth a thousand – no wait maybe a million words. Yeah a million.

"Ah, I see you're awake now, Igniuas." The unfamiliar voice from yesterday filled my right ear. Footsteps stopped to the right of my bed, when Ari suddenly shifted. "My name is Dr. Arman. There's no need to be alarmed, I've been your doctor this past week since you came in." Slowly my muscles uncoiled and I visibly (as well as mentally) began to relax. I breathed in deeply into the oxygen mask on my face, scrunching my nose in annoyance. Damn hospitals.

That's when all the noise broke out.

"IGGY!" About seven voices seemed to yell all at the one moment. I winced at the sudden explosion of sound, but smiled wobbly none the less. I was still pretty doped up on painkillers, so I'm pretty sure the smile I gave was wither sluggish or drunken. Not like it was much different from my normal smile. My throat still felt raw to a sense so I simply smiled rather than spoke. Besides, who knew what I could say on pain meds. I was not about to let them have that satisfaction of possible black mail.

"Iggy you're finally awake!" Mom was the closest to me by now and I nodded my head.

"Hey man, how're you feeling?" Fang was the next to speak. Ari giggled hoping off the bed from me. To my left I could hear someone picking the toddler up.

"You guys awe slow. Iddy woke a while ago. Slow, slow." Ari sang over and over earning a round of chuckles from everyone. I smiled again thinking slowly. How do I feel? Well there's tired, hungry, pained and loopy. Loopy? Oh yeah must be my meds. I'm on meds. Meds. Meds. Meds.

Iggy, remind me to never let you on painkillers ever again. A voice broke through my thoughts and I jumped. Someone was invading my privacy, invading Iggy's space. My conscious?

No silly, it's Angel.

Oh, right mind reader. I took a deep breath with a soft smile. Hey Ange. How long was I out?

A week and a half. You've been unconscious that long. I frowned at the thought. I had been unconscious for a week and a half. It had been a full week and a half since the incident? That long already? Time sure does fly when you're asleep. Fly, haha get it. 'Cause we have wings!

I'm pathetic.

"I'm glad you're finally okay Iggy." Star whispered in the softest voice, barely above a whisper. She probably assumed I hadn't heard. But I had, and those words made my heart swell.

Linelinelinelineline

It had been a whole month since I defeated my father, my parents' death and the incident. A whole moth since I had almost died. But it had also been a whole month of bonding and becoming even closer to the people I call my family now. I had been released from the hospital about a week ago, with a week of mandatory bed rest. Until today that is.

Today I was finally free to stretch, move and fly.

So here I was sitting on a branch in the tree of our backyard, feeling the warm breeze push my hair forward. It had grown longer in the past six months I had been in the Martinez home. My home. It still felt strange after about fourteen years of being on my own. Living with the abuse and pain, and moving on the streets. I finally had a place I could call home, forever.

"You're quiet." Star's voice broke me out of my thoughts suddenly. I smiled with a shrug. To test my wings out I had carried Star up the tree, considering she couldn't climb with those legs of her. Heat slowly rose to my face at the thought of her legs. Perv…

"Just enjoying the peace again." I laughed nervously. Star laughed alongside me as I took a deep breath. It's now or never Ig.

"Hey Star."

"Yeah?"

"Um, do you remember what you said to me at the hospital? You know, the night I almost died?" I coughed nervously twiddling my fingers. Next to me Star was silent. Right now I wish I could see her face, to know what she was thinking. "Um, you said - you said you loved me, and I was wondering you see. I wanted to know if you, you know meant it? D-Do you really love me, or are we just friends, because that's just fine! I mean I'm okay with it. I just was wondering, 'cause I have my own feelings and then you said that and-"

My mindless babbling was cut of sharply by a soft pair of lips on my own. My blind eyes widened at the sudden contact, before closing into the kiss. Star was kissing me. And I was kissing back. Holy crap.

After a few moments, the need of oxygen came around as we pulled away from one another breathless. I could feel her stare on my face, as I "looked" in her direction with blind eyes.

"Now you've shut up. Does that answer your question, Iggy?" Star breathed and my face flushed even deeper.

"Y-Yeah." I stuttered with a curse.

"Hey love birds! Let's go, get down, it's time to sing to the birthday boy!" Max shouted from below us with a smirk in her voice. I laughed and waved. Today Ari was turning four years old. It was a miracle I am able to celebrate this birthday and all those yet to come.

"One minute!" Star sang lightly. "You okay?" She asked softly at my dazed grin. I smiled brighter, facing the sunset I could never see, nor would ever and spoke.

"Yeah, just thinking that I need to forget yesterday and my past. For I have a new one to start." I said with a warm heart. "Hey Star?"

"Yes Ig?" She asked as I carried her bridal-style and opened my wings. Gently shanking the feathers I leaped off the tree and soared through the air.

"Can you tell me to shut up again?"

THE END

Whoa it's finally done; my first real completed fanfiction is DONE! So I'm thinking of doing a sequel, and I'll get started on it right away, since we're done with all those project and school's almost out. I hope all of you enjoyed the ride, and liked this story. It was a great experience to see my writing improve and become much more descriptive. This was always a great story to write, and I never lost motivation for it.

I'm glad it's finally done, now people can read the whole story without my horribly long updates! T_T

Anyhow, I hope you all enjoyed this story, and THANK YOU to all that reviewed this story, faved it, or alerted it. Reviews always made my day, but they weren't the main reason I kept writing (though they always helped)!

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