Sorry about the late updates everyone. School happened and I have had like no time to do anything. Hope you enjoy this chapter, and the next should be up eventually. ^-^
Chapter 2
It's amazing and saddening how when you close your eyes you can dream and be anything you want, but once you open them it's over and you're back where you started and going nowhere. I often dream of living in a place where I don't have to worry or fear anymore, but as I keep thinking about it the more I realize that the only thing that I want is nothing more than a fantasy, a figment of my imagination. It's like I wake up every day to a dream I wish to wake up from but never actually do.
///Where am I? Am I in heaven or on the brink of death? I can't tell. I hope I never have to wake up again. I would be happy to stay like this forever./// As I think about this I smile and hold my breath for what happens next.
"Wake up!!!" I hear as I feel myself being shaken along with hearing this annoying ringing noise.
///I don't want to wake up, why won't they just let me be?///
"Cloud!! Come on buddy stay with us!!" I hear someone scream. It was a heart-wrenching scream that made me flinch in my mind.
///That scream. I know that scream./// As I thought about the person that owned the scream I felt myself being pulled from the darkness back to the light which I dreaded so much, but I wasn't afraid of the light for once in my life.
"Clear!" I hear someone yell as I felt a painful jolt ran starting at my chest going throughout my whole body. I cough awake and right as I start coughing even more I feel a mask go onto my face which helps me breathe a lot better. They start to take the mask away to see if I'm in a lot of pain but I grab it with my good arm and keep it on my face, refusing to let them take the one thing keeping me from coughing away. As I look around I see Zack and he's got the saddest but happiest look on his face as if to say that he pities me but is happy I'm alive.
After my huge ordeal between life and death I was staring at my fingers when I heard the door to the room I was in open. I quickly pretended to be asleep, fearing who might have walked in would be there only to worsen my day for no reason other than their own entertainment. As I peeked through the crack between my eyelids I saw a nurse holding something in her hands. I opened my eyes slowly as she approached the side of my bed and started looking at the stitches on my wrist.
"Mister Strife, we need to give your medication now," said the nurse who had just walked in.
"Oh, okay," I said quietly. As I waited I started trying to remember what had happened to me to get in here. "There, all done," she said as she cleaned up after herself and then left. As I kept staring at my wrist I heard the door open, I look over and see Zack slowly walk into the room. He walked over to the bed and sat down in the chair next to it. "So you're finally awake. We thought you'd never wake up," he said.
"How long have I been out," I asked.
"About two days now," he replied.
"Holy shit, what the hell happened to me?! Why am I even here?!" I scream.
"You seriously don't remember?" he asked, shocked.
"No," I replied practically silent while looking at him.
"After I got you away from Kadaj, Loz, and Yazoo we got into a fight and you walked off I got my brother Angeal and we tailed you to make sure you made it someplace okay. You went down this one street, stopped in front of some house, and unwrapped your wrist and left. You just kept walking and then you collapsed and we called for an ambulance, right after we called you started seizing and you nearly died from blood loss." After saying everything he became very quiet and didn't say anything and just looked at his feet and the ceiling.
"How the hell did I nearly die though? I don't remember my wrist being that bad when I looked at it," I said puzzled.
"Your wrist was bleeding from before but not that bad, but when you passed out you fell right in your wrist and the bone went through the artery in your wrist. I have never seen so much blood come out of someone before. It was quite, well, terrifying. I thought for sure you were a goner. They put you in the ambulance and hooked you up to some machine and had to try and revive you four times. Normally they allow anyone other than family but they allowed me because I was the only one who knew who you were."
"I wish they hadn't. I have no clue how I'm going to explain this situation without getting the shit beaten out of me," I mumbled.
"Huh?" he asked.
"Oh, nothing I'm just really dizzy and tired. I think I should go to sleep now."
"Okay and I'm going to head out now, oh and by the way, your parents should be here sometime later, they said that they had to take care of some things before they came. So I'll see ya later!" With that happy note he left, and I was scared shitless of what's going to happen when my parents get here. Instead of thinking about them, I went into a dreamless sleep that seemed to last forever.