Chapter 2

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The realization of the present eventually came to Cindy. She awoke, but struggled to open her eyes. Her body ached badly. Although the pain was all over her, most of it cumulated into the back of her head.

She eventually found the strength to lift her eyelids. The light from the sun rushed into her eyes, causing them to shut quickly. Once they had adjusted to the radiant sun, they opened once again. This time they did not close.

'Where am I?' she thought, although her mind was more concerned with the pain she was in.

Looking around, she took in her surroundings.

'I must be in a hospital. But why? Nerdtron must have caused another accident with one of his stupid inventions.'

Her mind was filled with questions, but one stuck out to her.

'If this does have something to do with Jimmy, is he okay?'

She turned her attention away from her thoughts and focused on the space around her. The room she was in was plain shades of white and beige. She was lying in a bed covered with a white blanket. Her hand roamed the blanket. It was a bumpy texture, but it was also soft and warm.

'This is definitely a hospital. Only a hospital room could be so poorly decorated,' she thought.

As Cindy watched her hand grace the cover, she noticed a mass of tubes leading from her arm into an IV filled with transparent liquid. The same questions once again filled her mind.

'Why am I here?'

All of a sudden Cindy heard a door open, and feet were rustling somewhere in the room. She could not see who entered because a blue curtain in the middle of the room blocked her view. On the curtain were the silhouettes of the group who had just came in. Voices could be heard coming from the same area.

"Dr, is she going to be all right?"

Cindy could tell this was the voice of her mother.

"Well Mrs. Vortex, I thought I would break the news to you in a quiet setting. I didn't want to disturb the other patients."

"What is it Dr?"

"The cat scans and MRIs taken have shown us that your daughter has a brain tumor."

The next thing Cindy heard was a loud scream, which she thought was her mother's. Someone pulled back the blue curtain revealing Jimmy, Libby, her mother, and a man she did not know. When the curtain was pulled Cindy realized it was not her mother's voice screaming, but her own.

Jimmy rushed to Cindy's side and pulled her into his arms. Cindy buried her head into Jimmy's chest and let her tears flow.