Chapter 18
Luke’s POV727Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡySmuA9cYDd
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.727Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQOGMmrhGQ2
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. 727Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsgDUTMMiYm
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. 727Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoZnVAU40IG
“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. 727Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡutDpvssbgH
“Do you even know Puck, Alice?” Dad questioned next.727Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJOeKrIfoFb
“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. 727Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiNDHfA4RA0
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. 727Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6jDDR5DW5d
“We….died?” She stuttered out after a few seconds of silence. 727Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPmzsjCjJJ8
“Yep. Thats what I said. But it was okay, Luke took care of me and it was awesome!”727Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoqgRdqloHH
“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. 727Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIRMasW8LAZ
“Well it felt like it till I woke up every time.” Alice said looking down at her food.727Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDzqHsHECiI
“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?” 727Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFrCOiVmoDn
“Yeah,” She whispered so low that I almost didn’t hear it. 727Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEsPJuh7bwP
“Good. Just remember that I know what you’re going through and we will find the others.” I tried to comfort her. 727Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0VsTCZTMxj
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. 727Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGoVCm2aAOl
“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? 727Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuOpn7mxeS8
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.”727Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcIMI4EHRHA
“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.” 727Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpOLoKfbfNg
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. 727Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8RlRZ7t52T
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. 727Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJnB04ioAE3
“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.727Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuZSYRf1YgF
“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. 727Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAyEjn54VFm
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. 727Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUdB8gnTLS6
“Call me as soon as you get a chance. I need to ask you a favor. My number is 321-845-2980.
-Kenza”727Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFD2lgmucRL
I pressed the number. It was lit up blue so that I could just call it right away. 727Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrWePjZBGov
It rang a while and then when I almost pressed the end button she answered. 727Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiuhRJ3KR4V
“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.727Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡstirXuu01c
“Hey Kenza,” I barely got done saying that when she talked again. Even when she’s sad she talks a lot. 727Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLSKdHfrYU6
“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. 727Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmZIwJtgfVe
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. 727Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIZW6z423FV
“Of course you can.” I didn’t even have to think about it. I would do anything for my friends. 727Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuYtvBuYmNh
“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. 727Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2vPnRTtslB
“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.727Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2mAhoDlfXV
“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. 727Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2Mc2OB16Bd
“Of course Kenz. Anything for you.” I whispered the last part. I don’t know why I said it, I just did.727Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhzIuviwICa
“So Luke, hows the non-coma life treatin ya?” She asked instantly perking up. 727Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM7S0Na5Vdl
“Well, It’s definitely different than the coma life.” I said with a laugh. “But considering my parents are still alive -” 727Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV5X0qtfKX1
“Wait! Hold up! Your parents are alive?!?!”727Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc2pz0e5geb
“That’s what I said.” I answered laughing. 727Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSviQX9MEzl
“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.”727Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡacpp4bpxjL
“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. 727Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsypX2jyPZi
“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?!?!?!727Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGKCnNKtzj2
“You went into your coma because of a car crash!?!?!” I interrupted her. 727Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt1yK4ZPXfH
“Uh...yeah..? Why?”727Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7U31h0970q
“CAUSE I DID TOO!!!” I said, a little too loud. 727Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw0QJ5w4vqc
“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. 727Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqSKBzSEcAu
“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. 727Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjbsTxNLrIN
“What day what?” She asked confused.727Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ94J2KEPSh7
“What day did you go into your coma?”727Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQgkiMrMw6V
“May 18th 2013. Why?”727Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ1tzReqOv5
I didn’t say anything for a few moments. “Luke? Luke you still there?”727Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyXyTXza6sz
“Yeah.” I whispered out. I couldn't think a coherent thought yet. 727Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvyzUjrNHpg
“You gunna tell me why asked for the day?”727Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1GdkXuhvrQ
“Because that’s the day I went into the coma too. Along with Puck.” I replied. Still shocked by this news.
