Hey guys! I have indeed returned from the dead! Yay! I was going to wait a little longer to start posting this, but last night was prom night at my school and I was not asked to go (because I am a freshman and also have no attractive features about me at all besides the ability to sit in a dark room and play The Sims for ten straight hours), so I thought what the hell. Just in case the description was unclear (and considering my track record for writing horrendous descriptions, it's quite possible), this is the sequel for Stand By You. That was kind of anticlimactic. Oh well! Continue reading.
Disclaimer: When I successfully conquer the galaxy, I shall own this too (and make more Glee they shall). Until that time, I'm afraid I own nothing. Sigh.
Brynklie did a quick assess of her body. She was lying down on a soft mattress. Her eyes were closed but she knew she was awake. She was aware of what had happened to her: her dad had kidnapped her and crashed the car, and now she was here, but where was here? She tried to open her eyes, but couldn't. She tried to wiggle her toes and couldn't, but for some reason, she knew they were there; same with her fingers. She tried to sit herself up, but her arms and pack wouldn't move either. She wasn't in any pain or anything; she just couldn't move. Giving up, she heard a familiar voice.
"Oh my god! Are you okay?" She instantly recognized the voice as Ryder's, "Why isn't she answering me? Is she alive?"
Brynklie wanted to roll her eyes and sarcastically tell him she was okay, but her eyes and mouth wouldn't work either. Another voice began to answer Ryder instead.
"She's going to be fine," Lisa replied, "She's in a coma right now, but -"
"A coma!" Ryder spat.
"Yes, a coma, Ryder," she continued, "But the doctors say that she'll be okay and she should wake up in a few days. During the accident, her brain started to swell, which caused the coma, but they're draining the fluid out now."
Ryder continued to speak, but Brynklie didn't hear any of it. She was in a coma.
Throughout the day, many people filtered in and out of Brynklie's room. Most of the glee club came by; Finn was there twice, and Ryder was there whenever he wasn't at school. Lisa watched on from a chair in the corner.
Brynklie had no choice but to silently lie on her hospital bed. At one point, a plastic tube was inserted in her stomach and she could feel the gooey substance entering her body. She could also feel an IV in her arm and another tube coming out of her head. Every couple hours, a nurse would come in and move her to another position. She became painfully aware of a throbbing feeling in her leg and foot.
During most of the day, there were other people to distract her from everything, but after everyone left, the silence was deafening. Sometime later - maybe hours or days - she fell asleep.
I know this is ridiculously short, but you kind of need to get used to ridiculously short chapters for this story. Like I said in the description, this is a very, very Brynklie-centric story. I almost didn't publish it because of that. If the fact that this story features almost no actual characters that were in the show, don't feel obliged to carry on. I won't be offended, I swear.
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