Chapter 18
Luke’s POV983Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqmhPhFUrCf
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.983Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcDisA0FNWi
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. 983Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwFadLj5PQv
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. 983Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqtvyiH4rmh
“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. 983Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnhQsFgLGJI
“Do you even know Puck, Alice?” Dad questioned next.983Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdHl1SUuAZt
“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. 983Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡukHrrjFzel
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. 983Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrgGRvaAwAZ
“We….died?” She stuttered out after a few seconds of silence. 983Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgd94jTu5lt
“Yep. Thats what I said. But it was okay, Luke took care of me and it was awesome!”983Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk0nv5e4dXz
“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. 983Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5XISNycvg6
“Well it felt like it till I woke up every time.” Alice said looking down at her food.983Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEuP9Zcrgx6
“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?” 983Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYzGLPiV1c9
“Yeah,” She whispered so low that I almost didn’t hear it. 983Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdS2n9z42DP
“Good. Just remember that I know what you’re going through and we will find the others.” I tried to comfort her. 983Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwJhNeGu1Fv
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. 983Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXCLgK9qXhn
“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? 983Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxAkTNGnywY
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.”983Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYTWU93By6K
“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.” 983Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQBGuUullPV
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. 983Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO9JaVXv4MJ
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. 983Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYZgcqlziZM
“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.983Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5LVynjQr0A
“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. 983Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4VHJZPJ2mK
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. 983Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJIz4cCLbLD
“Call me as soon as you get a chance. I need to ask you a favor. My number is 321-845-2980.
-Kenza”983Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO3WdIHl9Aq
I pressed the number. It was lit up blue so that I could just call it right away. 983Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡff6vXyWTCu
It rang a while and then when I almost pressed the end button she answered. 983Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6e7tyIL9HD
“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.983Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaOBGx0LkNh
“Hey Kenza,” I barely got done saying that when she talked again. Even when she’s sad she talks a lot. 983Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrmQZBnhkgt
“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. 983Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvV6MAWcdY0
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. 983Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMyApzZSnfO
“Of course you can.” I didn’t even have to think about it. I would do anything for my friends. 983Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6JnfSUOGZz
“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. 983Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHXfl7xdsig
“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.983Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ0BL1JnjgZ
“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. 983Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrxey7nOvwI
“Of course Kenz. Anything for you.” I whispered the last part. I don’t know why I said it, I just did.983Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb8cth4m5NW
“So Luke, hows the non-coma life treatin ya?” She asked instantly perking up. 983Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIN7vcJgUHL
“Well, It’s definitely different than the coma life.” I said with a laugh. “But considering my parents are still alive -” 983Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡApJiVdQGmj
“Wait! Hold up! Your parents are alive?!?!”983Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNYRUozGKJe
“That’s what I said.” I answered laughing. 983Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXeoJtfcCB3
“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.”983Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR11EHf0X7T
“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. 983Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwFKo14OuIR
“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?!?!?!983Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYQm4Z3HTjF
“You went into your coma because of a car crash!?!?!” I interrupted her. 983Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN6FmtZHhrh
“Uh...yeah..? Why?”983Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1AeoRnVySz
“CAUSE I DID TOO!!!” I said, a little too loud. 983Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡylzzZw4azk
“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. 983Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡonFujNTLCX
“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. 983Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK04rFpLH43
“What day what?” She asked confused.983Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ6Jah7PZjx
“What day did you go into your coma?”983Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡULgK4Rsqqf
“May 18th 2013. Why?”983Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡASgQKik2oJ
I didn’t say anything for a few moments. “Luke? Luke you still there?”983Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5QObEWiaad
“Yeah.” I whispered out. I couldn't think a coherent thought yet. 983Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoFhiolIb2I
“You gunna tell me why asked for the day?”983Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5bmBzmlzpN
“Because that’s the day I went into the coma too. Along with Puck.” I replied. Still shocked by this news.
