Chapter 10
I had finished searching for my friends. Now I just needed to contact them somehow. The only thing I have is Puck’s hospital’s number. I wanted to call back right now but I was too tired to keep searching. Even though I had just woken up from a coma, I was still tired.
I laid back in my hospital bed and shut my eyes. It was still daylight outside but I didn’t care. Laying in the uncomfortable hospital bed I couldn’t fall asleep. Too many things were running through my mind. 3 out of 4 of us were in a coma, at the same time, and woke up on the same day. They were all real, but we had never met before, at least not in real life. These along with many other things were going through my mind.
I couldn’t fall back asleep so I checked the time. It was 5:13, the hospital shifts should be changing, I didn’t want to talk to the same girl as before, so now would be a good time to try and talk to Puck.
I sat up in my bed, quickly found the hospitals number again and dialed it. It rang only twice before someone picked up.
“City View Hospital, how can I help you?” This time it was a man with a deep voice that answered.
“I was wondering if it was at all possible for me to talk on the phone to a patient there?”
“If you give me a good enough reason I may think about letting you even though I’m not supposed to. You happened to catch me on a good day.” The guy seemed very nice.
What would be a good enough reason? Should I tell him the truth? Would he even believe that? Or should I make something up?
“Well I’m waiting.” He said impatiently. In that second I decided the truth would work.
“You probably won’t believe me but this is the truth. I want to talk to a boy named Puck Comi because I was in a coma in which he was one of my best friends. But then I woke up and it turns out I never met him in real life. After finding this out I did what anyone does now a days. I googled him. And I found out that he was also in a coma and the best part is that he woke up today, just like me.”
“That’s the story you’re going with, kid?” He asked.
“Yes, but it’s not a story, it’s the truth.”
“Well it sounds crazy…..but….”
“But what?” I asked, being the impatient one now.
“But it’s good enough.” Yes! I almost yelled I was so happy. I was about to say thank you when he started talking again. “You said his name is Puck Comi right?”
“Yes!”
“Let me look up his room and I’ll give you the number to his room. You have to promise me one thing though.”
“What’s that?”
“If he asks you to leave him alone you don’t call him again.”
“Agreed.” I didn’t want to agree but I realized how weird this all sounds. Maybe he won’t know who I am and won’t want to talk to me. But I couldn’t let these thoughts stop me, I’m about to talk to Puck, I can’t give up now.
A few seconds of hearing the guy type something he started to talk again. “His phone number to his room is 330-236-1542” I typed that into the notes on my phone.
“Thank you so much sir!”
“You’re welcome. I’m happy to help.” He said as he hung up.
I was happy that I had the number but the doubt I had stopped me from calling right away. What if he didn’t know who I was? What if he didn’t want to talk to me? I kept thinking of so many what ifs that I finally just dialed the number.
It was ringing. I was nervous. What do I say? Hey its Luke I don’t know if you know me but I’m pretty sure were best friends? Like that wouldn’t scare him.
I didn’t have much time to think of what to say because he answered on the fourth ring.
“Hello?”
Before I even thought of what to say words spilled out of my mouth. “Hey Puck, Its Luke. Do you know who I am?” That didn’t sound too bad…
“Luke as in Luke Greene?!” He basically shouted. I didn’t realize how much I missed my friends until I heard him talk. It hit me like a wall that I could have lost them forever because they didn’t really exist.
“Yes!”
“Oh my god Luke. They said you weren’t real. That you had only been in my coma. I don’t know what’s going on. I’m so confused. Luke what happened?” He sounded worse than I could have ever imagined.
“I know how you feel Puck. I was in a coma too. They told me the same thing. But I couldn’t believe that you guys weren’t real. I googled you all.”
“You were in a coma too?”
“Yeah, but that’s not even the weirdest part. When I googled you it said you went into a coma on May 18th 2013, is that true?”
“Yes, but I don’t understand how that’s weird?” He sounded genuinely confused.
“Because that’s the same day I did. Another weird thing is that we both woke up today.”
“What the hell is going on with us? Wait what about the others?”
“Well I’m glad you asked. That leads to more weird stuff. When I googled Aviana I saw a picture of Star. But she was living with some other girl.”
“Wait Aviana had Star, but she wasn’t taking care of her?” Puck said interrupting me.
“Yes but there’s more to it than that. Star was raised by this other girl because Aviana was in a coma.”
“WHAT?! When was Star born????”
“The date on the girl’s Facebook said November 26th 2013.”
“So the same as before.”
“Right.” I replied.
“But wait a second. Did you say Aviana was in a coma???” Puck questioned me again.
“Yes. And she woke up today too. There was a post on that girl’s Facebook that they were going to the hospital cause she woke up.” I answered him. Finishing my explanation on Aviana.
“WOW! This is all so weird. I want to know what the hell is happening to us.”
“Me too, Puck. Me too.”
“So you found me, found out a little about Aviana and Star, what about Kenza and your sister?” He asked.
“I didn’t really find out anything about Kenza. I found a Facebook page but nothing has been posted in two years and she had no friends except a few family members on there. I sent her a friend request but I’ve got nothing back.”
“UGG, you found out good stuff bout me and Aviana but nothing good about Kenza.” He sounded frustrated now. I nodded my head and then remembered that he couldn’t see.
“Yeah,” I said depressingly. “Wait before we continue this conversation, what’s the last thing you remember. I mean before today anyway.” I asked.
“Movie night with all of us at your and Alice’s apartment. Why?”
“Good, just wanted to make sure we had the same memories.” I replied.
“Oh, okay. What about Alice?” Hopefully this was his last question. I was tired of talking about this. I just want everything to go back to normal, well normal as in what it was like in the coma.
“She wasn’t in a coma, but she does remember what we remember. She had all this happen in dreams. Exactly the same as we experienced it. She told me that she liked to sleep more than anything else because she liked it there more than here. Even though our parents are alive here.”
“That’s super weird dude!” he said.
“Trust me I know! It’s really weird having my parents round now. I had gotten so used to living with just Alice and taking care of her.”
“I feel ya! My parents actually care and are really concerned about me! I don’t know how to feel about this!” His parents cared and mine were alive? Wow this gets weirder and weirder every second.
“Woah, this is all so weird. Can we just go back to being in a coma? That was so much simpler and much less confusing.” I said, laughing. Sometimes I really wish that we could go back.
“Man, I second that! Listen I have to go. The Doc thinks there’s something wrong with my brain and wants to do more testing. It’s the second time their doing this. It’s kinda annoying.” Puck said. I didn’t want him to go yet. I had just found him, but I knew he had to go.
“Alright, call me back when you get done!” I said to him.
“Of course! Bye Luke.”
“Bye Puck.” I said and then hung up.
That went really well. We had found each other and now we needed to find Aviana and figure out what happened to Kenza. Hopefully we’ll get discharged soon and we can meet up to find the others.
Now that I talked to Puck I was dead tired. I laid back down in the hospital bed and closed my eyes. I was out within seconds.
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