Chapter 25
Jessica goes to the hospital. Louise tries to call Sam, but Sam is focused on the vow renewal dinner. He doesn't answer the phone because he doesn't think that it's important. Louise tries and tries and tries again. Finally Sam answers the phone. Louise says "Sam, you need to get to the hospital quick. Your middle child, Jessica, has been attacked. She's in a coma and they don't know the extent of her injuries." Sam hangs up the phone, and runs to the hospital. He thinks to himself, "How could this have happened to Jessica?" At the hospital, Dr. Rustle shows Sam to the E.R. room that Jessica is staying in. Sam looks at Jessica in disbelief. The doctor tells him that she thinks Jessica has been punched in the stomach and fell backwards, hitting her head on the floor, which made her go into a coma on impact. The fall made her brain swell up, and the doctors had to cut holes in her skull to keep the brain from bleeding. Sam kneels down next to the bed where Jessica lays, and holds her hand. He tells her, "wake up, wake up!'' and quietly recites a preyer that she will be okay.
Three days later, Jessica wakes up. She cannot remember any of her family, or the attack. Sam is with Jessica when she comes out of her coma, and Dr. Rustle tells Sam that she thinks Jessica has amnesia. Jessica says,
"Wait! I do remember kind of seeing the guy's face, maybe, underneath the ski mask. I remember pulling the ski mask off the guy's face!"
Sam responds, "Who was it Jessica? Who attacked you?''
''The face looked like your best friend TC!"
"What?"
''But I'm still not completely sure, but it looked like him. I blacked out after I saw his face. It was horrible."
Sam turns to Dr. Rustle, and says, "How could TC do this to me?" She says, "I don't know, but I think it's time to divorce TC. I can't believe that he would go bad!"
Just then, TC enters hospital room, and says, "Good guys gone bad!"
"Well," Sam says, "there's always a first time for everything. Good bye TC. And good riddance. I guess our friendship is over, I will never speak to you again, you dirty asshole." TC runs out of the room, and Sam can hardly believe that his best friend would turn his back on him.