Hey guys. I'm not really busy, so I decided to write chapter 4. I think my last chapter was honestly the best one I wrote. I am going to try and do more of them as detailed as that. So this chapter may or may not be as good as the last one. It depends on how much time I have to type it. I have basketball in about two hours and it takes me a while to write and then edit this. So enjoy chapter four of Relapse. And the italics represent the texts from Logan
"Im sorry" he said as he closed his eyes and the monitors beeped.
Me and my mom sat there in shock. We had no clue what just happened. One minute my dad was talking to us and holding a good conversation. The next minute he was apologizing and the machine were beeping.
I was the first one to snap out of my shock. And hit the call button on the bed. Doctors rushed in and started working on him. We were tossed out of the room as more doctors rushed into the room.
My mom was in hysterics by now so I guided her in the direction of the waiting room. Once she was sitting down in a chair, and was a little calmer then she had been before, I went into the bathroom.
I went into a stall and locked the door. I leaned against the stall door and cried. I cried until I ran out of tears. But I still didn't leave the bathroom. I couldn't go out there and hear more bad news. I could practically hear the doctor saying that my dad had died. That they did everything they could but in the end they lost him. I couldn't hear those words when everything was starting to look up. My dad had just woke up. He was speaking. He can't die. It wouldn't be fair. He had family that cared and loved him and that he loved too.
I started crying again but it didn't last too long. When I was able to control my breathing and calm my nerves I wiped away the excess tears and walked out of the bathroom. I went back into the waiting room where my mom was still sitting. I went over and sat next to her.
"Any news yet?" I asked. She shook her head.
"No. Not yet. I hope everything is OK. If he dies, I don't know what I will do. When he was over seas, I at least knew that he was still alive because I never got a call or a letter saying he died. That reassured me everyday. But if I hear the words that he is dead, I don't know what will happen." She said. I gave her hand a reassuring squeeze and looked at her.
"I'm scared to but I'm sure everything will be alright." She gave me a small smile. And leaned her head on my shoulder. Now it was my turn to be the strong one. I had to. I rubbed soothing circles into her back until she fell asleep.
My phone vibrated and I took it out. It was a text from Logan.
How is everything~L
Not so well. We went to talk to him and he was doing good until he closed his eyes and then all the monitors started beeping.~K
Do you want me to come back to the hospital? I will if you want me to.~L
Can you please. I'm scared and I need someone to take my mind off of all this.~K
Sure. I will be right over.~L
As I sat there waiting for Logan to show up, I couldn't help thinking of what my life would be like if my dad wasn't in the picture. He was my mentor in life. He taught me everything I knew. I needed him. Nothing would be the same without him.
"Kendall. Kendall. Hello." I looked up and saw Logan looking at me.
"Oh hey. How long have you been standing there?" I asked.
"Only about a minute. But I called your name about ten times."
"Oh. Wow, I must have been really deep in thought."
"So what were you thinking about?" He asked as he sat down in the chair next to mine.
"Well, I started thinking of how my life would be with my dad not being around and how hard it would be too." I said.
"Yeah, that would be pretty tough." He said. I shot him a glare that said 'not helping' and his cheeks turned red.
"What I meant was that uh that it would be hard but well um you don't have to uh worry about that because he won't die"He said trying to recover the slip he made. I just laughed at his attempt to do so.
"Logan relax. I know what you meant. You were only trying to help." I grabbed his hand and squeezed it. He gave me a small smile in return. My mom began to stir in her sleep and moments later.
"Any news yet?" She asked when she fully came around. I shook my head no in response and she sighed. When she looked next to me her eyebrows crunched in confusion.
"I thought you left?" She said as she looked at Logan. He smiled and nodded.
"I did, but then Kendall text me because he was feeling scared and needed somebody to talk to." He said back.
"Oh sweetie, you know you could have talked to me." My mom said putting a hand on my knee.
"Yeah. I could have. But you fell asleep on me so I couldn't talk to you." I said and she smiled at me.
We sat in silence for a while until I saw a doctor heading our way. I tapped my mom on the shoulder and nodded my head in the direction that the doctor was coming from.
"Knight family" He said. We walked over to the doctor and he looked at us. That usually meant bad news. I figured that out considering how many times I have been here in the past year or so because of my dad.
"Yes." My mom said hesitantly. He sighed deeply.
"I am very sorry to inform you but your husband and your father," he said looking at me, "has slipped into a coma." That was all it took for me and my mom to break down into tears all over again. The doctor let us clam down before he continued.
"Would you like me to go into details on what happened or would you like me to talk to you about it later?" He asked.
"You could tell us now." My mom said. She grabbed my hand and squeezed it so hard it went numb.
"Ok, well what happened was that his brain had shut down. He had brain damage that nobody knew about because he never mentioned any pain to the head which we took as a good thing. If he didn't have the pain in his head nothing would have happened. But he hid it from us so it was too late to perform any necessary surgeries. So by him hiding it he brought this upon himself and he slipped into a coma and he may not wake up. Im sorry."
As the doctor turned away my mom and I headed back to our sits where Logan was waiting for us to tell him the news.
"So I take it that you have more bad news. Because judging from the looks on your faces, you were crying and it was not the happy crying." He said. We sat back in our chairs and started to tell him about what happened. Well I did because my mom ended up going home.
"My dad is in a coma, and he may never wake up." I told him the short version because I didn't want to tell him the whole thing yet until I was ready. As I started to cry again Logan took me into his arms and let me cry. I cried so hard that people started staring and giving me sympathetic looks. I ended up crying myself to sleep.
When I woke up, I realized that I wasn't in the hospital anymore. I was back at home in my bed. I got out of bed and walked into the living room. Logan was sitting on the couch watching TV. I sat down next to him and gave him a hug.
"Thank you" I whispered into his shoulder.
"Your welcome." He said putting his arm around me and kissing the top of my head. It was pretty late so the news was the only thing on. We lasted about five minutes until we fell asleep in each others arms on the couch.
Hope you all enjoyed this chapter. It took me about 4 days to write this because I had trouble thinking of ways to do this. Hope you liked it. And if you have any ideas feel free to PM me or leave it in the reviews.