The End or The Beginning

As I started to wake up I felt familiar warmth that I have woken up to for a long time. The familiar warmth was none other than my cat who escaped as the house burned. Then that is what gave me the necessary courage to finally open my eyes and what I saw was a bright light.

When I finally opened my eyes my body by reflex just gently swept the cat into my arms where she cuddled immediately.

That's when I saw a man in a white coat who was asking the nurse to bring a glass of water.

So I assumed that he was a doctor after I looked down and saw my body was almost completely covered by bandages.

When he handed it to me I took it immediately and mumbled "thanks" after I took a sip.

When I tried to get up I felt immediate pain and a pretty volunteer assistant in her 20s propped me up.

After that I was taken to a room by a wheel chair. The room was an old conference room in the hospital that had some nice comfortable and overstuffed couches and chairs. While the rooms walls were a bare white with a tinted cream color on the ceiling. They just wheeled me over to the one chair that declined and had a foot stool and put me in it.

Then the lovely nurse who I found out was named Yumiko who said in a soft voice "since we got you cleaned up why don't we talk a little."

Then I being the person am said in a whisper "about what."

Yumiko just replied "what happened before we found you."

I just looked down and said "they said he deserved what he got, and said he did drugs, also about owing money." I continued with my voice rising "they shot her since he didn't cooperate and shot her, and I heard them say that I was to live so my dad would know he ruined his family's life."

My sobs came out harder and I said "he promised he would stop all the problems with the bills, my mom's debuts, but I didn't think he'd borrow the money from them."

My voice was shaky when I said "he left me all alone and nanako is still in America going to college."

She then said "what happened in the alley?" and I said "they beat me up and it hurt, but the darkness saved me from all the pain."

She then replied "they just beat you" and I nodded in a weak motion.

Yumiko then asked me "what is your name?" I looked up and said "Echizen Ryoma."

"So your samurai's kid" she said and then she also said "so have you played him in a match?"

I just smiled a little and nodded as I said "I beat him just last week to."

Then I was about to fall asleep when the young women said "can I take him home and he can stay with me and my family?"

The doctor said "just for a few days, and you need to change his bandages." He then said "just grab a blanket and a wheel chair if needed, then ill take these notes of what he said down so they won't question him for awhile."

For awhile I thought if I could move on id get a second chance but soon realized I missed the darkness. My heavenly bliss was when you were alive but not doing anything except lying there almost like your dead. If it wasn't for fact that you had a pulse and chest moved up and down.