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A/N: Hey guys! Wow, do I start every chapter like that? I've gotta think of some new greetings. Anyway, sorry it took me a while, but here's chapter 28! It's really long to make up for the time I've spent not updating and I promise I'll do my best to update asap! Okay, enjoy!
Chapter 28
Sonny's POV
I woke up the next morning to my mom gently shaking my shoulder. I opened my eyes to see a nurse standing behind her and tinkering with something in the bed tray.
"Hey Sonny; how are you feeling?" she asked.
"Okay. What time is it?" I asked, wondering why I had to be woken up; usually I can wake myself up fairly early in the morning.
"Don't worry; it's only about 8:00. We had to wake you so that you could get ready to go into the operation."
"Oh yeah."
"Okay, she's pretty much ready, we just need to give her a shot and she needs to drink this." Said the nurse behind Mom, handing me a tiny medicine cup with a thick white liquid.
I gulped it down quickly as my face crinkled up with disgust. It was the worst thing I had ever drunk! And it was so thick that the taste stayed in my mouth.
"Can I have anything to wash it down with?" I asked, my face still pinched together.
The nurse laughed a little and handed me an equally sized medicine cup with water in it.
"But that's all you can have until the operation is over." She warned.
I made the best of it and swished the water in my mouth, but it didn't do much good at ridding my mouth of the taste.
When I was two I ate mud; when I was four I ate play dough; when I was seven I ate frog legs; when I was 12 I tasted aloe juice; and when I was 14, my Mom let me have a sip of wine on New Years Eve. All of those things tasted HORRIBLE! And yet, none of them could even COMPARE to the taste this tiny little sip of medicine held!
The nurse saw my disgust and need for a way to wash the taste out and said, "If you need to, you can wipe you mouth on the blanket; we wash and sterilize them before and after every patient."
Somehow, this seemed like an amazing offer, so I did my best to wipe the taste away, replacing most of it with cotton. But it really didn't matter; at least the majority of the medicine's taste had gone away.
The nurse left and said a doctor would come in in a few minutes, so my mom and I waited. After a few minutes, every second started getting hazier; every blink longer; my mind began growing numb as the nurse walked back in with a doctor behind her.
"She's still not asleep?" The nurse asked.
"I think she's getting there." Mom replied. "Goodnight sweetie. I'll see you soon." She said, and my eyes finally fell closed. No matter how hard I tried to open them, they were shut tight.
The only thing I can remember is opening my eyes to an all white room with three doctors around me and a big sheet around them. They were pressing a breathing mask to my face to make me stay asleep for the operation. I only had time to see every thing and blink twice before I was back in the blackness of artificial sleep.
I woke up again later with my shoulder throbbing like crazy. It hurt so badly that I almost cried, but I didn't. I couldn't hear anything going on around me; I could see a sheet to either side of me, separating my bed from others'. I could see the doctors running back and forth to check on patients or hand each other cups of medicine or wires or tools. There was one nurse carrying a toddler who was crying and screaming, trying to calm him down, but he was yelling something and not listening to her.
Suddenly, I blinked away the haziness and the sounds of the room hit me like a ton of bricks. I heard the toddler crying and yelling "I wanna go home! My leg is better!" and a few other cries or whimpers from other beds. I heard the doctors' hurried legs, running from one bed to another. I heard several heart monitors, making constant, steady beeps. And I heard someone snoring really loudly a few beds over.
"Ah, miss Monroe." Said a nurse cheerily but loudly, as to make herself heard over the screaming toddler. "How does your shoulder feel?"
"It hurts." I said simply.
"Okay. I wasn't sure if the pain killer we gave you had worn off yet. I'll go get you another dose." She said and walked away.
A doctor finally went to the toddler and gave him a shot. He screamed louder for a second and then started gradually quieting down. They placed him in a bed to my near the far end of the room and everything became much quieter.
"Alright, take this pill and wash it down with this. It'll make you drowsy and you'll spend most of today sleeping while you're in the infirmary, but it will help." Said the nurse as she came back to my bed.
I did as was told and soon fell asleep AGAIN!
General POV
Chad walked into the hospital doors, hoping that he would see someone familiar from the beginning. He saw Tawni and Nico in the waiting room, Tawni asleep on Nico's shoulder. Nico, who had always been terrible at picking up women, happily obliged to putting his arm around her and looked very blissful with his eyes closed, enjoying it while it lasted.
"Is Sonny Monroe accepting visitors yet?" he asked a woman at the desk in front.
"Only by relatives. She's out of operation, but she's asleep right now and probably will be for most of the day." She said.
"Do you know what time she'll be permitted non-relative visitors?" Chad asked.
"I'll ask a doctor." She said, rolling her chair over to a little phone. She picked it up and dialed a few number, saying "What time will Sonny Monroe be able to see visitors?...yes, non-relation…okay, thank you." She said and rolled back over.
"She should be good by 6:30." She said.
Chad looked at his watch and nodded. It was 6:03, so he could have time to go get balloons or something from the Walmart down the street. He went and got a few balloons that said 'Get Well Soon' or 'Feel Better' and brought them back with him.
The lady at the desk took them and said that she'd get them up to her room for him in a minute. Chad joined Nico and Tawni, who had woken up quite less mad then expected and they all went up to Sonny's room.
Sonny had woken up slightly by 6:20 or so, but was still too sleepy to really do anything but talk.
About an hour had passed since the others had come to visit Sonny, Grady and Zorah arriving after a few minutes. It was 7:43 when eccentric knocking was heard on the door, like someone desperate to get in immediately.
"Come in." Sonny said loudly as Nico reached over to open the door.
In the doorway was Melissa, jumping up and down in excitement.
"Sonny Sonny Sonny Sonny Sonny Sonny SONNY!" she shrieked.
"Hey Melissa!" Sonny said, welcoming her gently into her arms.
"Are you okay?" She asked.
"I'm fine. It's so good to see you! How have you been?"
"I'm good. We were all really worried about you and I wanted to come yesterday when your mom called us, but Daddy was in a business meeting and they wouldn't let me in to tell him!"
"Well you're here now, right?"
"Yes! I'm SOOOOOOOO glad your okay!"
Sonny laughed at the girl's enthusiasm and they all returned to normal conversation.
A little later, another nurse came to give Sonny another pain killer and she gradually fell asleep, unable to carry on the conversation. The others slowly left after Sonny fell asleep and the doctor told them she would be able to come home the next afternoon.
Sonny's POV
I fell asleep after taking the pain pill and everyone must have left after that. I spent most of today sleeping, but now it's 3:14 in the morning and I'm WIDE awake! I guess this is what happens when you sleep all day.
My first thought when I woke up was what time is it? After I checked and that thought left my head, I thought about how hungry I was. Obviously my brain can only process one thing at a time right now. But I hadn't eaten real food for over a week now and only had this tube in my arm to transport artificial nutrients into my body, which doesn't really fill your stomach, trust me!
I decided that my first order of business in the morning when the doctor or nurse or whoever came in was to request a HUGE stack of pancakes or something. I just hope they'll let me eat real food; when Lucy's dad got surgery a few years ago, he wasn't aloud to eat anything but jello and this high fiber energy milkshake stuff for a week.
After I pushed that thought away, there came the thought, I need a shower! This started up a whole huge train of thoughts on how I would be able to take showers with my arm in a sling. I tried to avoid those and decided I would just take a bath as soon as I got home tomorrow.
I was practically bouncing up and down with energy and wished that I could still move around and stuff, but the doctor had specific instructions to not do so much as sit up before I got my arm into a proper cast and sling tomorrow. So I looked around the room and saw a TV hanging on the wall in front of my bed. I looked for a remote, which was hard to see in the dark, but saw one on the table beside my bed. I turned it on and flipped through channels on a low volume that only I could hear.
I was flipping quickly and almost missed this one channel (the Tween Weekly News Center) that was talking about…me? I flipped back to it and listened.
"Yes, folks, it's true. The Teen Actress Sonny Monroe has recently been reported to be out of her long comma and in much better shape than before." Said Brenda Powls, one of the announcers.
"Well, at So Random!, we've all been really worried and it's just such a relief for us to find that she's okay. It's been really tense and this whole thing has made us really realize how important Sonny is to all of our lives." It showed Tawni saying.
"Sonny's not just a cast member, or even a friend! Sonny's part of the So Random! family! We're all in it together and without Sonny, our family's just not complete." Grady said.
"If laughter is the best medicine, than we've got nothing to worry about. Sonny did laughter like no one I've ever met! She could always make you laugh and herself too." Said Nico.
"How do you say Condor studios has changed while Sonny has been gone?" Someone's voice asked, handing Chad a microphone.
"I-It's definitely more dreary…dull…It's definitely not as fun or happy there without Sonny. I mean, she is our Sonshine. She's the brightest part of our day and it's like it's always raining when she's gone." He said.
I smiled at everyone's concern as they continued to explain how I had taken a bullet in the arm and been knocked out for a week.
I continued flipping and ended up watching re-runs of the Suite Life on Deck or Wizards of Waverly Place. It always amazed me how much Selena Gomez was different from her character; she was actually much more sweet and caring. It was really funny to think how I had actually met her and become friends with her, even though Chad said it was ridiculous.
I laughed out loud and waited for the sun to come up to start the day.
A/N: How'd ya like it? I definitely felt like it was a filler and tried to fit as much in as I could. I know I skipped around a lot, but I had to, considering Sonny was asleep most of the time. I tried to make the operation part as realistic as possible, so I based it off of when I got my tonsils removed a few years ago. For those of you who don't know, they say you can eat all the ice cream you want, but you don't because all you want is a little! I would be doing good to have one bowl a week and that was all I could eat because it hurt so badly! So if you ever have a choice on whether or not to get your tonsil out, choose not! I'd WAY rather have gotten strep throat frequently than that! Trust me! Oh wait, I'm babbling again! Sorry!
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