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A New Perspective.
I woke up with a major headache and to Maggie sitting next to me. My sister and I have one of those special sister relationships where we never argue and can talk to each other about anything. So opening my eyes to see just her made me instantly relax, until she started screaming in my ear.
"Mary! Omigosh are you okay! Can I get you anything? I was so worried about-" she babbles before I cut her off.
"Water." I can hardly recognize the croak that was my voice.
"Oh yea of course," she goes over to a pitcher and pours a cup half way with water then proceeds to walk over and help me sit up. I take the cup and have a drink from it.
"Thank you," I say, after the wet goodness slides down my throat, doing away with the sandpaper feeling that had encased my mouth. She replies with a cautious your welcome. "What happened? You were all excited, you seem nervous now." She looked into my eyes and silently knew what questions I needed to hear the answers for.
"Three days, you were out for three days. Everyone is okay, and daddy is in the office with grandma, Mark, mom and Violet's mom and dad. He's not mad." I let out the breath I hadn't known I was holding, and lean my head against the propped pillow.
"Where is everyone?"
"They should be here soon one of us stayed here every minute of the day. In case you woke up… I forgot! I need to get the nurse!" She realized.
"Wait, whose us and you really don't need to go get the nurse." I tell her.
She smiles down at me. "Ryan, Charlie, Lily, Violet, Aaron, me and some other kids- Nick, Tess, and Nina. And yes I do need to get the nurse." She turns and leaves at a trot. Which was welcome because I needed time to wake up and think. I remember everything that happened that night three days ago but my mind cannot register why it all went down. I was followed, kissed, drugged and almost kidnapped. And I could not think of a single reason why. On top of that, why were Nick, Tess, and Nina waiting for me like I was a friend? Nick told Lily where my date with Ryan was, and Tess and Nina resented me for being called a legend and being liked. I was starting to think that growing up as a girl could be more confusing than growing up as a spy; and spies have to deal with a-need-to-know-basis, which could make things pretty darn confusing.
I tried to turn my legs so I could get out of the hospital bed, but when I did a sharp pain shot through my body to my brain. I gasped in shock and my hand went to my leg where I could feel bandages covering the front of my right thigh.
"The one we captured." I spun towards the voice, which belonged to a boy leaning on the doorway. "The one that cut you was the one tied up before you passed out. When I was getting you into the van he got free and aimed a hidden knife at your stomach. I was fast enough so he didn't get you in the gut, but he still cut you. I'm sorry."
"Nick, it not your fault. If I had been awake I wouldn't have had to rely on you. Thank you for moving me though. I can imagine things could have been much worse if you didn't. I owe you one." I tell him, and mean it.
"Did Maggie tell you? No- of course she wouldn't; she wouldn't want to scare right when you wake up. But I'm not one for sugar coating things. Mary-"
"Max"
"- you where minutes away from dying- more like seconds away." My jaw dropped. "So things couldn't have been much worse at the time."
"I…I almost died?" I knew I had been hurt, but not that hurt.
"Yea, your little boyfriend was running around making things worse." He said it with just a hint of a smile on the corner of his lips.
"He's not my boyfriend." I don't know what possessed me to say that. Don't I want him to be my boyfriend? He simple raised an eyebrow and said,
"Really 'cause you might want to confirm that with him. He was running around screaming, 'my girlfriend, my girlfriend's hurt!' It was pretty funny" He said it in a really bad impression of Ryan. So I did what any girl would have done… I laughed.
I heard a slight cough coming from behind Nick. He turned his head, did that head nod thing all boys seem to know and stepped away to revel Ryan, Lily, and Violet. My heart literally went to my stomach. How much had he heard? Judging from the look he was wearing, a good portion of it. Lily on the other hand just had an amused grin on her face.
They walked in and Violet came over and gingerly gave me a hug, then sat at the foot of my bed. She was like another sister, as was Lily. Ryan just sat down on a chair not looking at my face. Lily stood leaning on the wall and Nick was back to his original place against the door. We all just stayed at our place unmoving; the tension so thick you could cut it with a knife.
Finally Maggie returned with, to my joy, Charlie, Aaron, Tess and Nina (Even if they still gossiped behind my back. I decided since they are going to stop the awkwardness in the room- hey I can deal with gossip.) But to my dislike, the nurse came as well.
"MAX!" Aaron yelled at the top of his lungs. "YOU'RE NOT DEEEAAAD!" Everyone covered their ears and the nurse gave him a pointed look and brought a finger to her lips.
I started to laugh. "No Aaron I am dead I'm just a ghost visiting- you know-saying my last goodbyes." He walks over timidly and stretches out his hand and pokes me in the cheek. Once. Twice. Thrice.
"You're not a ghost," he concluded. "Ghost can't be touched only zombies can. And you are not hungry to eat our brains, so you're not a zombie either… I know you must be a Reverant!" We all just stare at him. " What reverants are supernatural beings that live to save people.. so Max do you have any urge to die saving someone right now?" It becomes too much, I start to laugh so much it hurts. But it takes less time than you would think.
"It was a joke Aaron. I am fully alive and aware of every injury on my body." I tell him.
"Oh. I still like Reverant Max better." The nurse walks out of her office and announces,
"Alright kids, out. Mary needs her medicine." I frown at the use of my real name and mutter, "Max, not Mary, Max." But being that the room is full of teenage spies in training, they heard every word.
"Have fun Mary," Lily says as she walks to the door, Violet and Maggie right behind her. As she leaves I raise my first and shake it at her, "Traitor! And then you leave me to the nurse. Gasp! I thought we were friends!" Charlie just laughs and says,
"Come on Max more than 98 percent of the world end up going by their name given at birth."
"Well I am part of the two that do NOT." I say firmly than cross my arms over my chest like a child, pouting. He just shakes his head and walks out, Aaron following him still muttering about Reverants.
Ryan stands up and walks out with out saying a word, I start to call out to him but there are too many people here and besides he's already gone. Tess and Nina walk to the door with apologetic smiles and whisper, "Feel better." The last person in the now much more roomy room, is Nick and suddenly I don't think I should be anywhere near him. But I don't want him to leave either. "So, Max," he starts to say while simultaneously walking closer, "if you really think you owe me, and you and Ryan really aren't boyfriend and girlfriend…" He's right next to my bed, and he sits down. His lips are extremely close to mine. My brain starts to get clouded, "Why don't you and I spend some time together. You know… just you and me." It's al I can do now to speak, my eyes glued to his lips, and as I remember his abs from the other day I try not to drool.
"O-oh… y-yea o-of course we s-should." I stumble. He stands up eyes twinkling. "Cool, see you then." He says as he turns to leave.
"Wait!" I call back as my mind clears. "When is 'then'." He turns back around.
"Oh- you'll know." And he literally disappears into the shadows.
The nurse comes back out of her office with a huge needle. "Ok cupcake, time for you to go back to sleep." She tells me. But all I think about as my world fades into darkness, for what feels like the umpteenth time, is that Ryan will not be happy and Lily will never let me forget what just happened.
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