Chapter Thirty-Two
Travis, Don't Go! You Have To Stay
"Hey sleepy head." I awoke to the sound of Travis' soft velvety voice. I rubbed the sleep out of my eyes and looked up and saw Travis propped upright staring at me, his longer spiky hair flying in every direction as usual.
"You're back. How are you feeling, you look like shit." I wasn't lying; sixty percent of his face was a bruise. The good thing was his shirt was off, but the bad side to that was that he had a large blood soaked bandage circling his entire chest.
"I don't feel too good. The pain killers aren't strong enough." We both laughed at this. "It's kind of hard to breath and I'm feeling a little lightheaded so I think I'm gonna go to sleep." He barley had enough time to finish his sentence before he drifted off. I smiled at how much he looked like a child. I pulled a magazine out of my bag and began to read it. Everything was a rhythm, the noise of my flipping the pages and the sound of his beating heart. When I finished the magazine I focused on the sound of his heart in the monitor.
Beep beep, beep beep, beep beep, all one rhythm. I found myself drifting off to sleep when the rhythm changed. The beats became slower and then one consistent beep took over the sound. I looked at the monitor and saw a straight line running across the screen. My heart rate quickened and I ran into the hallway and stopped a nurse. She quickly ran off to find a doctor.
When the doctors rushed into the room they told me I would have to leave. I pressed my ear to the door and could her them. Someone would shout, "clear!" and then you would hear a jolt, as Travis' body would thud against the bed. This happened four times before I heard the beeps. At first they were slow but quickly went up to a normal pace. As soon as I let out a sigh the doctor came rushing out of the room with Travis on a stretcher. I ran up to a nurse.
"What's going on? Where are they taking him?" The nurse focused her attention on me.
"They're taking him back into surgery. His heart stopped because of lack of air. They think one of the stitches might have snapped under pressure." My head clouded and I suddenly felt dizzy. The nurse took notice to this and led me to a nearby chair. I few minutes later I passed out.