"I am so sorry!" the doctor who had told me Hudson was dead apologized for the thousandth time. "That was such a terrible mistake I made!"

"It's fine," I responded, waiting by the exit of the hospital for Hudson. "It's alright now."

"But I told you he was dead when he was actually almost fine!"

"It's alright now," I repeated, patting the doctor on the shoulder.

"I really am sorry."

I laughed, shaking my head. "Trust me. I said it's okay now, so it's okay."

"Okay," the doctor responded, still looking doubtful. "If you ever need anything, you know where to find me."

"Alright," I responded with a chuckle. "Thank you for taking care of me."

"Anytime, darling," the doctor responded before retreating back into the hospital.

A few seconds alter a sleek black car pulled up to the hospital entrance. I admired it from afar and wondered whose fancy car it was. It must have been nice to afford such fancy things.

My jaw dropped when Hudson got out of the car. He grinned at me and gestured me over. I walked over, still in shock at this car.

"Where in the world did you get this?"

"My dad bought it for me," he responded with a shrug. "Since I totally totaled my other one."

"This car looks really expensive."

Hudson shrugged. "I didn't pick it. But it's not like I'll refuse such a gift. I need a car, you know?"

I nodded, following him back to the car. I got into the passenger's seat. The interior was black leather. It was really fancy.

"I hope you're not scared of being in a car after what happened," Hudson said as he started the car.

I shrugged and put on my seatbelt. "Que sera sera."

"What?"

"What will be, will be," I told him as he exited the hospital parking lot. "Everyone gets in crashes, so if everyone was scared of driving in a car after them, no one would be driving."

"Good way to think of it," Hudson responded with a nod.

We made it back to our apartment building and Hudson parked his fancy new car in the garage. We made our way up to our apartments. I opened mine and Hudson strolled in, plopping on the couch and turning on the T.V right away.

"I'm hungry," he complained.

I sighed, and shook my head but smiled. I was glad everything was normal again. I went into the kitchen and made lunch sandwiches and returned to the living room and gave him his.

"Thanks," he responded, taking a large bite right away.

"We need to talk," I told him, also starting on my sandwich, but in considerably smaller bites. "You know... about before."

Hudson swallowed and nodded his head. "About that... I'm really, really, really sorry about what I said. I was just really worried over what happened and I didn't want anything to happen to you like that again, so I had to be mean..."

I stared at him. I knew he had my best interest in mind. But... "That doesn't matter, Hudson."

Hudson chuckled. "Yeah, I know now. You don't seem to care if there's danger involved... although you were pretty scared on the phone. Crying out my name with that cute shaking voice of yours and all."

I choked on my sandwich and felt my face burn. "S-shut up!"

"And it was also cute how you were crying over me when you thought I was a dream," he continued, grinning evilly.

"Shut up!" I repeated, my face uncomfortable hot. "I felt like crap!"

"Okay," Hudson responded but I heard the word "excuses" muttered.

"Well I accept your apology," I responded, getting back to topic.

"I bought you a mirror too," Hudson told me. "It's back in my room. I'll bring it over later.

"Okay," I responded, nodding.

I heard a meow, and something landed on my shoulder.

"Ow, ow, ow!" I cried, dropping my sandwich and quickly grabbing Oliver from my shoulder. "Oli!"

The kitten meowed happily and licked my face. I snuggled him to my chest. "I was only gone one day but I missed you!"

Oliver meowed again and swatted at my face. I frowned and put him down. He trotted off my lap and down to the floor and all the way to Hudson. He climbed up Hudson's pant leg and settled down in Hudson's lap and meowed.

"I've been abandoned," I said with mock sadness.

Hudson scratched Oli behind the ears and the kitten began to purr like a motorboat. I rolled my eyes. My kitten was such a suck up to other people. I watched the two of them play for a moment. Hudson kind of reminded me of a cat sometimes.

Hudson caught me staring and smirked. I blushed and looked away.

Now that I had realized my feelings for Hudson, whatever I did made me feel embarrassed. Just looking at him made my face bright red. I did not want Hudson finding out that I liked him. There was no way he liked me.

He had kissed me on the cheek. But that probably didn't mean anything. My grandma kissed me on the cheek and she wasn't in love with me. At least I hoped she wasn't...

I shook my head. No, she definitely wasn't. It was because I loved Hudson I was having these thoughts. I subconsciously glared at him, and when he looked at me he looked taken aback. That's when I realized I was glaring at him. I quickly fixed my facial expression.

"Listen," Hudson said, putting down Oli. "That was the only way I could stop it."

"Stop what?" I asked, confused.

Hudson mimicked my expression. "Weren't you glaring at me because I crashed my car into the cab?"

I shook my head. "No, I was just thinking and it happened subconsciously."

"Oh," Hudson responded.

"But what do you mean it was the only way? Why did you crash our cars together? That was dangerous for both of us! The outcome could have been much worse," I started, watching as Oli went to his food dish.

Hudson sighed. "It was either you crashing into the gas station and exploding which would mean indubitable death. Or me crashing into the cab, which would make you not explode and give you a chance to live, which you did."

"But it was dangerous for you," I responded with a frown.

"I'd rather take the chance of you living than you dying," Hudson explained.

"Even though we could have died in the car crash anyways?"

Hudson stretched back on the couch. "If only you had died, I'd feel as if it was my fault. So that's why I tried to stop your car with mine. Sure there was a chance that we would both die, but there was a chance we, you in particular, would live. I'd give my life any day for that chance."

My face began to burn again and I looked away from Hudson, who was staring at the ceiling anyway. How could he say such things without being embarrassed? And the way he said those things made me think that he liked me back. Which was something I didn't want to put the slightest hope in, in case I was wrong.

"You know," Hudson started, snapping my attention away from my thoughts of him to the real thing. "I've never told you about myself have you?"

I frowned slightly. What had brought this up? "Not really..."

Hudson stretched out on the coach, resting his head on one of the armrests to look at me. His gaze made me slightly uncomfortable and I looked around the room, trying to focus on anything but Hudson.

"A few years ago, my mom died."

"Oh," I responded, shocked at the beginning of his story. "Um, I'm sorry."

"Don't worry about it," Hudson responded with a shrug. "It's in the past. But anyways, I was around maybe thirteen. It was when I first began predicting the future."

"Thirteen was when I started seeing the future too," I commented, surprised by the similarity. "Weird."

Hudson nodded. "That is weird. But to continue my story-"

"Sorry," I apologized; pretending to zip my lips shut and throw away the key.

Hudson chuckled. "It's alright. So when I first started seeing predictions, I didn't know it was a very abnormal thing that people would find disturbing. So at first I was just curious about the pictures that changed from day to day. Then I started watching the news and realized that the pictures were from scenes at whatever the disaster was. It took me about half a year to actually figure it that they were predicting the future. I figured it out at the time of my mom's death."

Hudson paused for a moment to check his cell phone. He stared at it for a moment before snapping it shut. "Sorry."

"It's okay. Keep going," I urged.

"Alright. So one day I got the scene of a car crash. I noticed my mom was one of the casualties in the photographs. I was scared of course, because I didn't want my mom to die so I showed it to her. She got really freaked out and called my dad. And they put me in counseling right away. The counselor thought I was crazy, talking about how my mom was going to die."

"Wait. They sent you to counseling right away? No questions asked?"

"No questions asked."

"They didn't even try to understand you?" I asked in disbelief. "At all?"

Hudson shook his head. "No. My mom was too freaked out I was 'imagining her death' as she put it so she convinced my dad to put me in."

"That's awful," I commented, frowning.

Hudson shrugged. "I would be disturbed if my kid was predicting my death."

"But they could at least try to understand you."

Hudson smiled gently at me. "I'm taking a wild guess, but you don't come from a very good family do you?"

I frowned at him. "I have a very good family."

"Do they know you predict the future?"

I stayed silent. No, I hadn't told any of my family. I had mentioned it when I was younger, but they were slightly freaked out and so were my friends so I had learned not to mention it early on. "No," I finally admitted.

"There you go," Hudson said with a wink. "So one day during counseling my dad came to get me early in a panic. Can you guess what happened?"

"Your mom's death?" I asked.

Hudson nodded. "He wouldn't even believe me after mom died. He said it was a coincidence, and sort of blamed mom's death on me in a way. I didn't mind though. He had lost his wife, but sometimes I wanted to remind him that he wasn't the only one who lost something."

I nodded, enticed by his story. It was sad, but I was curious to know about the past he had never mentioned before. Hudson was silent for a few minutes after that, watching the ceiling fan silently.

"So what happened after that?" I pried. Something I tended to try and not do, but for some reason I couldn't help it.

Hudson shrugged. "For some reason the pictures became blank, and I didn't receive anymore predictions. My dad forgot about it after a year, and life went back to normal for a while. Until they came back about a year ago. This time I didn't tell anyone, and I decided to take it upon myself to try and stop what was happening."

"Why did you decide that?" I asked.

"Because I didn't want another family to have to go through what mine did," Hudson explained to me. "I know families still do, but I'd like to at least stop a few, you know?"

I nodded my head, smiling slightly. "You're a good guy, Hudson."

"You're a good girl, Willow," Hudson joked.

I shrugged my shoulders. "I'm okay."

"You're the best," he told me with a wink. "You make me sandwiches."

I laughed. Only Hudson could act so normal after telling me their depressing life story. I smiled admiringly at him as he picked Oliver back up and played with him. It wasn't hard to see how I fell in love with him now. The only question was why I hadn't noticed it before.

Hudson caught me staring again and smirked. "What now?"

"Nothing," I responded.

I would keep my feelings to myself. It would be fine. I was happy enough just with Hudson around me, I didn't need anything else. I walked over to Hudson and grabbed Oliver from him.

"Hey!" Hudson protested, sitting up.

I smirked at him. "He's my cat. Go find your own."

Hudson frowned. "Owning a cat is too much of a hassle."

I rolled my eyes. "You're so lazy."

"I might be lazy, but you love me," Hudson responded with a grin.

I just rolled my eyes at him, but he had no idea how correct he was.

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