Chapter 18
Luke’s POV893Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl4Lwo7LScy
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.893Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwHPSPOxa25
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. 893Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRDuBihUsBD
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. 893Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwt25k6WMrY
“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. 893Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhUKMKgiCtP
“Do you even know Puck, Alice?” Dad questioned next.893Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9tVwPWIrPN
“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. 893Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz12HSLbrtE
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. 893Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl0P638Kp8v
“We….died?” She stuttered out after a few seconds of silence. 893Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzzqq0piFg4
“Yep. Thats what I said. But it was okay, Luke took care of me and it was awesome!”893Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO5OWXmkxGk
“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. 893Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkwaa0lsJa5
“Well it felt like it till I woke up every time.” Alice said looking down at her food.893Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjVbuX3CXtj
“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?” 893Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlAlI6HpvOh
“Yeah,” She whispered so low that I almost didn’t hear it. 893Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAVF7HF5L8b
“Good. Just remember that I know what you’re going through and we will find the others.” I tried to comfort her. 893Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhGJDg5rm2f
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. 893Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDtYgSaWXGt
“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? 893Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ88iO4KUWTt
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.”893Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcLDOFnhlCJ
“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.” 893Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTyMekRdDZd
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. 893Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL6mbolfJjJ
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. 893Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtZbuwuk0fZ
“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.893Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhYkHmP3c6s
“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. 893Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNDhiY3H3Mq
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. 893Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ83Cw6VcBD
“Call me as soon as you get a chance. I need to ask you a favor. My number is 321-845-2980.
-Kenza”893Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA8MugsqSVt
I pressed the number. It was lit up blue so that I could just call it right away. 893Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJnjKkYONxl
It rang a while and then when I almost pressed the end button she answered. 893Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1DKdUMqNyH
“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.893Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUI2BQhkpzG
“Hey Kenza,” I barely got done saying that when she talked again. Even when she’s sad she talks a lot. 893Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTqQpIMDnXg
“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. 893Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡborIBmsx22
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. 893Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqMVi1EoZGV
“Of course you can.” I didn’t even have to think about it. I would do anything for my friends. 893Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqHcsIM06NM
“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. 893Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRnN54U6NRm
“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.893Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgX1vxGp3hs
“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. 893Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8DeA9Pkt1J
“Of course Kenz. Anything for you.” I whispered the last part. I don’t know why I said it, I just did.893Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXzFvoXAq2u
“So Luke, hows the non-coma life treatin ya?” She asked instantly perking up. 893Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLMlVrvXtOx
“Well, It’s definitely different than the coma life.” I said with a laugh. “But considering my parents are still alive -” 893Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOKmIjmAubp
“Wait! Hold up! Your parents are alive?!?!”893Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuBCPdfEijc
“That’s what I said.” I answered laughing. 893Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhdQzwIsH4U
“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.”893Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo6R0U5X3a3
“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. 893Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyozexLEuar
“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?!?!?!893Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsOirGLo39z
“You went into your coma because of a car crash!?!?!” I interrupted her. 893Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe5P879GTy6
“Uh...yeah..? Why?”893Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg0ydVDI0XY
“CAUSE I DID TOO!!!” I said, a little too loud. 893Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr4utG6m9Xf
“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. 893Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmeYLVNLGZx
“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. 893Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ03eRcw5Mvo
“What day what?” She asked confused.893Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡykyGNYRo3A
“What day did you go into your coma?”893Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjpoQhHDK5h
“May 18th 2013. Why?”893Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMWoQvot9rv
I didn’t say anything for a few moments. “Luke? Luke you still there?”893Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg1bXoabgVB
“Yeah.” I whispered out. I couldn't think a coherent thought yet. 893Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq6SSREDV5W
“You gunna tell me why asked for the day?”893Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv1FtTWJRj4
“Because that’s the day I went into the coma too. Along with Puck.” I replied. Still shocked by this news.
