Chapter 9

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"Travis, Travis are you OK?" Lily screamed from the 10 foot cliff as she was looking down at the love of her life unconscious

in some small soft bushes below. Lily quickly pulled her cell phone from her pocket and called 911 was quick as she could,

within seconds an emergency operator answered "911 whats your emergency?" "its my boyfriend, hes fallen over a 10 foot cliff

and i don't know whether hes OK or not. Hes not answering me, i think hes unconscious please help him" Lily cried into the phone.

"Miss please just calm down, where are you located so that we can send an ambulance?" the operator asked calmly. " we are located

in the forest just behind his parents summer cabin at 5566 evergreen road. Please hurry, he needs help" Lily screamed. "All right

an ambulance is on its way, you should begin to start hearing sirens within the next few minutes. Does your boyfriends parents

know of what happened?" the operator asked in a steady voice. "No, everything happened so quickly. one minute we are talking, then a bear

trys to attack us, i scare it off and my boyfriend falls off a cliff in fear. I'm sure they know now from the roaring sirens" answered

Lily in a semi self composed manner. "OK, i think it is safe for us to hang up now then. Please alert his parents immediately

so they can accompany him to the hospital" the operator ordered her in a stern voice. "Thank you so much, I will" replied Lily before hanging up.

She put her phone back in her pocket and made her way back to the edge of the cliff "its going to be OK Travis, help is here now. Your going

to be just fine. Please hang in there. I cant stand to lose you" she cried down to him. "Miss can you please stand back so that

the rescue team can go down and get him?" a paramedic asked slightly startling Lily, "Will he be OK?" she asked. "We won't know

until we get him up here, now can you please stand back?" the attendant asked calmly. Lily stood up and quietly moved out of the way.

She quickly pulled out her cell phone and dialed the Strong's cabin phone number, it rang a few times before Mrs.Strong answered

"hello?" "Mrs.strong, i have some bad news for you. Now please don't over react but Travis is being loaded into an ambulance right

now and is being taken to the local hospital. A bear was threatening to attack us and Travis accidental walked backward off

a cliff in fear. He is being loaded into an ambulance right now and is being taken to the local hospital" Lily cried into the phone, Mrs. Strong

almost could not understand her. " WHAT? OH MY GOD MY BABY, WE WILL MEET YOU GUYS AT THE HOSPITAL. I TOLD YOU KIDS TO BE CAREFUL, HE BETTER

BE OK. I DON'T KNOW WHAT ID DO IF I LOST HIM, HES MY ONLY SON" and with that she hung up the phone. Lily just stared at her phone

before turning it off and climbing into the ambulance, she took Travis's hand and began to speak "please Travis, you have to wake up. You have to be

OK. I love you and i don't want to lose you" Lily started to cry more as the ambulance sped as fast it could to wards the nearest hospital. Not more

then a couple of minutes later had they reached the hospital and Travis was taken into the emergency room while Lily was ushered into the

waiting room where she was surrounded by Travis's mom and dad "please tell me my son is OK, where did they take him, whats going on?" his mother

asked her "honey please calm down, give the girl a chance to sit and answer one question at a time" his fathered told her.

Lily took a deep breath " I don't know if hes OK or not, all i know is he is unconscious from the fall and has not woken up yet.

They took I'm into emergency and i don't know whats going on, they would not tell me anything." Lily looked down at the ring on her

left ring finger and began to play with it "i really hope hes OK." approximately forty five minutes later Mrs.Strong was getting up

to go find a doctor, one from the emergency room came in "Are you the people who came with the boy who fell off the cliff?" they

nodded, the doctor continued "OK well he broke his arm in two places and they are just casting him up right now. I unfortunately

have some more bad news " your son suffered quite a sever concussion, and has slipped into a coma. we are not sure when he will

wake up, but we can assure you from our xrays that he will and that he did not suffer any brain damage. As soon as they are done

bandaging his arm they will be taking him up to room 213 on the second floor, take the elevator just down this hall and to the left.

when you get to his floor turn right and his room should be the third room down, do you have any questions?" Mrs. Strong

nodded "yes, can we see him tonight?" "yes, but we are not sure whether he can hear you or not. It's still good to talk to him

just in case he does hear you. some patients can hear us and when they wake up some remember what was happening and what people

said but others don't remember or hear a thing. i think its good for you to talk to him, who knows you could even trigger something

in his brain that causes him to wake up." They all nodded " thank you doctor" Mr.strong replied, with that the doctor walked

away and Lily stood up "I'm going to get a hot chocolate before we go up and see him, would either of you like something?"

Mr.Strong looked at Mrs. Strong then at Lily "we will both have black coffee please, and Lily?" Lily turned around "yes?" her voice

a little high pitched "thank you" he replied. Lily smiled and walked over to the cafeteria a little ways down the hall way from

the waiting room "one hot chocolate and two black coffees please" she told the cashier, "three dollars" he replied. She thanked

him and headed back to wards the waiting room with the hot chocolate and coffees in hand. She handed Mr. and Mrs. Strong their coffees

and they all headed upstairs together, they made their way to Travis's room and his parents went in first leaving Lily to think

about what she was going to say to him even if he could hear her or not. Inside his room, his parents were telling him how

much they dearly loved him, and how they wished he would wake up, that they would treat him so much better and talked to him more,

they said they would get more involved in his life and what he was up to when he woke up. For the probably hundredth time that

day as Lily listened to them speak to her son she began to cry, she couldn't hold all the tears in any longer. The first boy she ever

loved, the only boy she ever loved was lying in a hospital bed in a coma. Lily cried for what seemed like an eternity before his

parents came out, they looked like they had been crying themselves. Mr.Strong patted Lily's shoulder "we are going to go back

to the waiting room until you are ready to go back to the cabin, "thank you. I will be down in awhile" and with that she

turned the doorknob to Travis's room and walked in, she looked at him and thought "why did this happen to you, you didn't deserve

this." she spoke to him as tears continued to well in her eyes "Travis, i love you and i really need you to wake up. I need you

here with me, i don't know how i can go on without you. Who else would have so much confidence in me? who else would make me

feel happy when I'm down better then you? no one can. I need you and i want you to come back to us. please fight this thing

and come back to us. I wrote a song for you and it goes like this:

"I want you to understand, theres more to what I've said,

so wont you take my hand, and see whats in my head,

cause its you and me, and you and me, and you and me, and you and me.

Don't you see these words I'm scared to say, phrases i can't find, theres gotta

be a way for you to read my mind, cause its you and me, and you and me, and you and me, and you and me.

Let us be."

PLEASE R&R AND BE PREPARED FOR A KILLER CLIFFHANGER IN THE NEXT CHAPTER :o)