Chapter 18
Luke’s POV948Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKXmqNqo6df
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.948Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZK7WxUilG9
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. 948Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf5WmD27whU
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. 948Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoz6ioHBOZM
“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. 948Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfyd2kYMUOQ
“Do you even know Puck, Alice?” Dad questioned next.948Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6LEnlBVswU
“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. 948Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqTcH6YDSwW
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. 948Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqX5iHFUITJ
“We….died?” She stuttered out after a few seconds of silence. 948Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2TXItNfGOi
“Yep. Thats what I said. But it was okay, Luke took care of me and it was awesome!”948Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5CDE7sgtRT
“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. 948Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtJBMryZJqA
“Well it felt like it till I woke up every time.” Alice said looking down at her food.948Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYcOPBKf0On
“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?” 948Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB7if3DjOgJ
“Yeah,” She whispered so low that I almost didn’t hear it. 948Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjZIbJl1RCR
“Good. Just remember that I know what you’re going through and we will find the others.” I tried to comfort her. 948Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcftBj86yoG
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. 948Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI6q4aYi2Fd
“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? 948Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPDNcPtMr4k
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.”948Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfZSaVXoW9H
“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.” 948Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1regfVe21Q
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. 948Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPARl8Pwp3R
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. 948Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt0Ubdu2PNm
“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.948Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1dNTeeK1bb
“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. 948Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMxPPsnRsNI
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. 948Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsFiIndchQq
“Call me as soon as you get a chance. I need to ask you a favor. My number is 321-845-2980.
-Kenza”948Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5UChKmkS7T
I pressed the number. It was lit up blue so that I could just call it right away. 948Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAh3IgSCYTv
It rang a while and then when I almost pressed the end button she answered. 948Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPHFp0DGZVc
“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.948Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsgZ37PlnZM
“Hey Kenza,” I barely got done saying that when she talked again. Even when she’s sad she talks a lot. 948Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU9hzt3SkAk
“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. 948Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkNxDZBDW67
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. 948Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjM3lUZwant
“Of course you can.” I didn’t even have to think about it. I would do anything for my friends. 948Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmupnxs3gKB
“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. 948Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC4vIWnLjEu
“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.948Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi9wqHn8CbG
“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. 948Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiKD6NnX1fB
“Of course Kenz. Anything for you.” I whispered the last part. I don’t know why I said it, I just did.948Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT5333X5sCt
“So Luke, hows the non-coma life treatin ya?” She asked instantly perking up. 948Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZSIvusutER
“Well, It’s definitely different than the coma life.” I said with a laugh. “But considering my parents are still alive -” 948Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfSdbpo9Wya
“Wait! Hold up! Your parents are alive?!?!”948Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoHhNQCShOd
“That’s what I said.” I answered laughing. 948Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDr7Wi5Dug1
“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.”948Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDoDnxHrpnX
“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. 948Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡErkkvpRUsR
“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?!?!?!948Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwORHmENAUe
“You went into your coma because of a car crash!?!?!” I interrupted her. 948Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtvGbMt5fw7
“Uh...yeah..? Why?”948Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyaslPU7NsI
“CAUSE I DID TOO!!!” I said, a little too loud. 948Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyQnuLAm0kd
“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. 948Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4RjLVTXpZ9
“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. 948Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnZhasjw401
“What day what?” She asked confused.948Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUkTqkFUPks
“What day did you go into your coma?”948Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRb4GdgwTPV
“May 18th 2013. Why?”948Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl79q7Jl7xA
I didn’t say anything for a few moments. “Luke? Luke you still there?”948Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxgmEXFbK99
“Yeah.” I whispered out. I couldn't think a coherent thought yet. 948Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGJgbxpzV6K
“You gunna tell me why asked for the day?”948Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrb37POD48B
“Because that’s the day I went into the coma too. Along with Puck.” I replied. Still shocked by this news.
