Chapter 18
Luke’s POV832Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqkL1uwRK1X
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.832Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡif3zRuotir
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. 832Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBAzBIoj5UQ
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. 832Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRI7L143Oxm
“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. 832Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSNG6Mjbrdo
“Do you even know Puck, Alice?” Dad questioned next.832Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfAf3fqz962
“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. 832Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJKvMTS8c7T
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. 832Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTh7VJ1MQoP
“We….died?” She stuttered out after a few seconds of silence. 832Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkSoKD4cq3d
“Yep. Thats what I said. But it was okay, Luke took care of me and it was awesome!”832Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFpz1ZUQ64Y
“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. 832Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI634hTMZix
“Well it felt like it till I woke up every time.” Alice said looking down at her food.832Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7DFsyxrYb6
“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?” 832Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb6XWGc1dyA
“Yeah,” She whispered so low that I almost didn’t hear it. 832Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeOzzRdZyzf
“Good. Just remember that I know what you’re going through and we will find the others.” I tried to comfort her. 832Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPZWvcV5LuM
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. 832Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfOjZSmyqny
“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? 832Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXSGnzvJuol
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.”832Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVyNIcCUJ4a
“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.” 832Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAL9vAjLF3h
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. 832Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvsGTp5UsSW
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. 832Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡilnQFEPosk
“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.832Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKzHIbZ9eYg
“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. 832Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaqpuwKiz6h
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. 832Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlwPtBfLB9Y
“Call me as soon as you get a chance. I need to ask you a favor. My number is 321-845-2980.
-Kenza”832Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3oZ3VnZ0Fs
I pressed the number. It was lit up blue so that I could just call it right away. 832Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQYH9LUFIFy
It rang a while and then when I almost pressed the end button she answered. 832Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdQZnXYzrUm
“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.832Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhiv92lGXIq
“Hey Kenza,” I barely got done saying that when she talked again. Even when she’s sad she talks a lot. 832Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo6Gj4XKam9
“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. 832Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7JYyMOo3Dj
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. 832Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf6yqGe734D
“Of course you can.” I didn’t even have to think about it. I would do anything for my friends. 832Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmTNXWiqpkn
“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. 832Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZKoAc5bIY7
“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.832Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK9MgONjedO
“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. 832Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLPbK50oU8F
“Of course Kenz. Anything for you.” I whispered the last part. I don’t know why I said it, I just did.832Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr9PmEm3RX5
“So Luke, hows the non-coma life treatin ya?” She asked instantly perking up. 832Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFKL37LhvVn
“Well, It’s definitely different than the coma life.” I said with a laugh. “But considering my parents are still alive -” 832Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvEmJoC674s
“Wait! Hold up! Your parents are alive?!?!”832Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjdS9oz2SD9
“That’s what I said.” I answered laughing. 832Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjoVgs8RNaE
“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.”832Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZFskwEPNM6
“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. 832Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0mOt2fHF0T
“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?!?!?!832Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC5dHv49I3D
“You went into your coma because of a car crash!?!?!” I interrupted her. 832Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz8BTIp9jkA
“Uh...yeah..? Why?”832Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7hhKt6mYtA
“CAUSE I DID TOO!!!” I said, a little too loud. 832Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk4Q4BsPcvA
“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. 832Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa5VUQFaUAA
“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. 832Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiVj8XaYo9D
“What day what?” She asked confused.832Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkTrfJic1ga
“What day did you go into your coma?”832Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvWmd7U0Dsc
“May 18th 2013. Why?”832Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhq0EX7yALI
I didn’t say anything for a few moments. “Luke? Luke you still there?”832Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7eiYVKeO9y
“Yeah.” I whispered out. I couldn't think a coherent thought yet. 832Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvVQm8LpPzF
“You gunna tell me why asked for the day?”832Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk6fWjHFgRy
“Because that’s the day I went into the coma too. Along with Puck.” I replied. Still shocked by this news.
