Chapter 18
Luke’s POV923Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe08SQp1Gkw
Previously:
While they sat there like that I picked up my fork and continued to eat my waffles, just letting it sink into their heads.923Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzlqs6q1OAt
Now:
I had finished eating and was putting my plate in the kitchen, when I heard Alice come running down the stairs. She didn’t come into the kitchen so I assumed she sat at the table to finish eating. 923Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtZc4Q1IDEr
I heard Mom saying something to Alice but i couldn’t make out what she was saying and me being the curious person I was, walked back towards the table and sat down in my previous seat to hear what was going on. 923Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWjxc0FWqQt
“I was talking to Puck.” Alice said, glancing at me for a second. Mom must have asked her what she was doing upstairs in my room. I don’t know why Mom asked her, I had already told them what she was doing. 923Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡisxKUqQqKW
“Do you even know Puck, Alice?” Dad questioned next.923Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH4qF08pokl
“Yep! He was in my dreams! Just like Luke! But you guys weren’t, you died.” She really had no filter. I didn’t expect her to say that otherwise I would have tried to stop her from being so blunt like it didn’t even faze her. 923Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7O1glmciz5
Mom looked at her weirdly. I wasn’t going to tell them that they had died and we were just fine without them in what we thought was real, but I guess that’s too late now. 923Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRGPhjY9nNr
“We….died?” She stuttered out after a few seconds of silence. 923Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRV3aTWpZAm
“Yep. Thats what I said. But it was okay, Luke took care of me and it was awesome!”923Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡChfvlZok1E
“You make it sound like it was real.” Dad said. He wasn’t as fazed by their deaths in our apparently made up world like Mom was. Well, I thought it was real till I woke up. 923Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNnP8cHV1yQ
“Well it felt like it till I woke up every time.” Alice said looking down at her food.923Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTab6YswF5C
“Hey, Alice. Look at me.” I said softly. Waiting for her to turn and look at me. Once she did I could see the tears in her eyes threatening to spill out. “Remember I thought it was real too? I didn’t believe anyone until I talked to you. Do you remember that?” 923Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI6Lv9YJ2Zn
“Yeah,” She whispered so low that I almost didn’t hear it. 923Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZJfknTBipy
“Good. Just remember that I know what you’re going through and we will find the others.” I tried to comfort her. 923Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFptqB7xEgy
I hadn’t noticed before since I was talking to Alice but when I looked up both our parents were watching us. They must have watched us the whole time. Thanks Captain Obvious. 923Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmcKJpNaWK7
“Wow, Luke.” Mom said. “That was really nice of you.” I just looked at her confused. Why was it nice? I was just trying to make her feel better. Isn’t that what they should have done instead of asking her more questions? 923Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbZLmL0NR8c
Mom must have noticed my confusion because she started talking again. “You just calmed her down so easily. Like you’ve done it a million times.”923Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhNQtBFC1sD
“Mom, I have done it a million times. When I was in my coma I took care of Alice all on my own. Just like she just told you.” 923Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiO37IvSjHI
Dad had been quite this whole time. I started to realize that this whole time that I’ve been awake Dad hasn’t talked much. it’s usually mom doing all the talking. He just watches as everything happens. 923Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2Qaxl9xke2
No one said anything more so I got up and was about to go up the stairs back to my room when I got stopped by Alice talking. 923Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy38YOtlAFc
“Oh! Luke when I was talking to Puck your phone made a weird sound and vibrated.” I must have a gotten a text message or something.923Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlVWt5CjEcB
“Thanks, Alice.” I walked up the stairs to my room, almost tripping on the top stair. I don’t know how I do it but I fall going up stairs a lot. 923Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYEIPMJJaTu
Once in my room with the door closed and phone in hand, I layed on my bed and looked at my phone. It wasn’t a text it was Facebook message from Kenza. I opened it and read it. 923Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc5HRXm253U
“Call me as soon as you get a chance. I need to ask you a favor. My number is 321-845-2980.
-Kenza”923Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSCdA9vYbMC
I pressed the number. It was lit up blue so that I could just call it right away. 923Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHDOSWrFCRJ
It rang a while and then when I almost pressed the end button she answered. 923Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡttYmeTxkfw
“Luke!!” She sounded like she had been crying, but I didn’t say anything, no need to make her cry more by asking about it.923Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUcw8VBxcRw
“Hey Kenza,” I barely got done saying that when she talked again. Even when she’s sad she talks a lot. 923Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZyP0duxOub
“First, I would love to go with you and Alice!!!! Second, would it be possible for me to stay with you a little while after that? Third, the second part is because my parents died and I have no where to go besides you. You know I wouldn’t ask unless I really needed your help. It’s the only way for me to get out of the hospital.” I could hear the tears through her voice. 923Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2DrETvLH9L
Now I know why she had been crying. It makes sense now. It was because of her parents. I felt bad for her, but I knew she didn’t like to be pitied. 923Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbpArhatghC
“Of course you can.” I didn’t even have to think about it. I would do anything for my friends. 923Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK6H6ATn7mX
“You didn’t even think about it. Or ask your parents.” Of course those would be her first thoughts, she was always concerned about other people before herself. 923Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK8HSIfe0cl
“You know I would do anything to help my friends out. And I don’t care what my parents say. You’re staying with us and that’s that.” I said leaving no room for argument.923Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQzmsRmsD6D
“Thank you so much Lukey.” I only let Alice call me that but Kenza uses it to tease me sometimes, I know this time she meant in a grateful way so I just left it. 923Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmULdjxlD95
“Of course Kenz. Anything for you.” I whispered the last part. I don’t know why I said it, I just did.923Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeb0PB9vP8V
“So Luke, hows the non-coma life treatin ya?” She asked instantly perking up. 923Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ44EDZI84Et
“Well, It’s definitely different than the coma life.” I said with a laugh. “But considering my parents are still alive -” 923Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8hpyez3NgS
“Wait! Hold up! Your parents are alive?!?!”923Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKYzdvbVv8O
“That’s what I said.” I answered laughing. 923Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKQVbVRFyhJ
“Holy Shit! That’s amazing! I bet the non-coma life is completely different then! I mean you don’t even take care of Alice anymore…..well I guess you never did..in real life anyway.”923Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuYLWkwWejU
“I know right! My mom looked at me funny this morning when Alice was feeling bad about something and I cheered her up. She confused me! But that was because I’m used to doing that kinda stuff for her.”
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“I would have loved to see her face! Her son who just woke up from a two year coma is comforting her daughter like he’s been doing it all his life.” Now that Kenza put it that way I could see why Mom looked at us like she did. 923Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyyhxno1drX
“You’re right, it would have been hilarious if I would have understood why she was making the face.” We were laughing again. “Hows the non-coma life for you, Kenza?”
“Well I found out my parents died in the car crash that put me in the coma-” CAR CRASH?!?!?!923Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQT9kqA52Iv
“You went into your coma because of a car crash!?!?!” I interrupted her. 923Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtIKbMZiUid
“Uh...yeah..? Why?”923Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlrhZ5lEyHB
“CAUSE I DID TOO!!!” I said, a little too loud. 923Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbPnyKi5evl
“Jeez, you don’t have to yell.” She said. “Wait. A car crash? As in we both went into our comas cause of a car crash?” She continued after she realized what I had said. 923Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1GbGmIXG48
“What day?” I sat straight up in my bed from shock. It’s so weird how everything that’s happened to us four has been almost the exact same. 923Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAZRYi6slio
“What day what?” She asked confused.923Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡil8iQBryjN
“What day did you go into your coma?”923Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ77z64rDf40
“May 18th 2013. Why?”923Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjks3I9GeCi
I didn’t say anything for a few moments. “Luke? Luke you still there?”923Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡatGhQstXtX
“Yeah.” I whispered out. I couldn't think a coherent thought yet. 923Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBnLBMbscpp
“You gunna tell me why asked for the day?”923Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeqTFJX8JMR
“Because that’s the day I went into the coma too. Along with Puck.” I replied. Still shocked by this news.
