He sat on the bench for a while, watching the snowball fights. He lulled Gabe to sleep. He soon fell fast asleep himself.
When he awoke, he found himself warm, in a room that was completely white. He was no longer hungry, but he was attatched to a little bag on a pole by a needle in his arm. He had never seen such a thing. He looked around. Gabe was gone. He searched frantically for him throughout the room, but Gabe was no where to be found. A woman dressed in green entered the . She smiled, "Hello!" she said happily, "How are you feeling?" I felt tears well up inside me. A little choked up I asked, "Where is Gabe? He was next to me on the bench, and i fell asleep, where is he? Please let him be alright!"
"Calm down, he is fine." she said in a soft voice. "Please keep your voice down." she walked across the room, and pulled back a curtain. Gabe was lying in what looked like a little clear box to Jonas. He was asleep. "You were found passed out on the park bench two days ago. This little one", she said, motioning toward Gabe, "Was crying. You were almost dead, but an elderly man with grey hair brought you both in. He was dressed much like you two, in all black an white. he told me to give you this." she handed me a piece of paper that read: It has changed, all of it. You can come back if you'd like, but there is no rush. "He said you would know what it meant"
Jonas nodded, and looked at Gabe. "Thank you giver" he thought.
"Where are we?" Jonas asked.
"Why, the hospital of course! Where else would you be"
Jonas remembered. The hospital was where you got better. The Giver had told him that.
"Well, if you'd like, you can have one last meal here. The man who dropped you off paid for your care and food. "
she began to take the needle out of his arm.
Jonas nodded again.
"What about Gabe?" he asked.
"Yes, him too."
Jonas was given a choice of what to eat. He chose a banana, pizza, and a wheat roll. He loved it all. Gabe was too young to choose his own food, and was given milk, mashed peas, and pears. He enjoyed his food as well.
Jonas examined the sheet of paper the Giver had given him. On the back was a map, telling how to get back to the community. Jonas decided to go back, to see how much it really had changed. But not yet. He stayed the rest of the day, and the next day in the community. Hevisited a church, which gave him food for the next few days on his journey.