Chapter 18
Luke’s POV749Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsc3lGgWBLY
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.749Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf4AqkmBe7F
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. 749Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKzvMR8bMXD
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. 749Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9kaV9asiPV
“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. 749Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHFlUrYGZxR
“Do you even know Puck, Alice?” Dad questioned next.749Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ92CLRJeLtS
“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. 749Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgCifc8edjd
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. 749Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzsa6p20oil
“We….died?” She stuttered out after a few seconds of silence. 749Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFs3AOnpSc9
“Yep. Thats what I said. But it was okay, Luke took care of me and it was awesome!”749Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ78gefbvZsv
“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. 749Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHKeK1nAtQR
“Well it felt like it till I woke up every time.” Alice said looking down at her food.749Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdLud9wqSGl
“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?” 749Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOl7KGuZnS7
“Yeah,” She whispered so low that I almost didn’t hear it. 749Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGtKC1qzCwk
“Good. Just remember that I know what you’re going through and we will find the others.” I tried to comfort her. 749Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmIMOopjDe3
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. 749Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3A2SpDrhtx
“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? 749Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYbXK2pbwGr
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.”749Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEzbisGQWez
“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.” 749Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCOyEytHGU7
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. 749Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ5alReoz4X
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. 749Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5JtvmNoe08
“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.749Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBeJ5zCN0EQ
“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. 749Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRK1TxPFhki
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. 749Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0gLrEfRfJ2
“Call me as soon as you get a chance. I need to ask you a favor. My number is 321-845-2980.
-Kenza”749Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBW3YkfJhS8
I pressed the number. It was lit up blue so that I could just call it right away. 749Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi9CUg2SxX3
It rang a while and then when I almost pressed the end button she answered. 749Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmVtFseXH5S
“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.749Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMGIDnSvwVl
“Hey Kenza,” I barely got done saying that when she talked again. Even when she’s sad she talks a lot. 749Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8QpuL6i6LO
“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. 749Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIKiqdK7eU1
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. 749Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUi7QWfSAu2
“Of course you can.” I didn’t even have to think about it. I would do anything for my friends. 749Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ66yOjKjTiH
“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. 749Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUh8ca0IdUf
“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.749Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgSMKY9X61l
“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. 749Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT1C538LXoN
“Of course Kenz. Anything for you.” I whispered the last part. I don’t know why I said it, I just did.749Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPPZwSWsWsx
“So Luke, hows the non-coma life treatin ya?” She asked instantly perking up. 749Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaT7reVJPI1
“Well, It’s definitely different than the coma life.” I said with a laugh. “But considering my parents are still alive -” 749Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyfdPvrz5Mo
“Wait! Hold up! Your parents are alive?!?!”749Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrKmcqvVjo1
“That’s what I said.” I answered laughing. 749Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvqwHrHDQ6w
“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.”749Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPSpf6Rwx1d
“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. 749Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4lXcyb5RnB
“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?!?!?!749Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaaogOSl7uj
“You went into your coma because of a car crash!?!?!” I interrupted her. 749Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU0r0F6WgJ5
“Uh...yeah..? Why?”749Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDnwEjvxPBK
“CAUSE I DID TOO!!!” I said, a little too loud. 749Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYbzKAafXUn
“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. 749Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0JPefdg7FO
“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. 749Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUnBblXBTW6
“What day what?” She asked confused.749Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ23FtoZFDiM
“What day did you go into your coma?”749Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ73xry6mADb
“May 18th 2013. Why?”749Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQpuRjHtTtQ
I didn’t say anything for a few moments. “Luke? Luke you still there?”749Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGhWZtWsOEa
“Yeah.” I whispered out. I couldn't think a coherent thought yet. 749Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdxFwzlb4eq
“You gunna tell me why asked for the day?”749Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoOfTzPQZ2T
“Because that’s the day I went into the coma too. Along with Puck.” I replied. Still shocked by this news.
