June 14th, 2006
The only thing waking me up was the sun itself. I looked around; no one else in sight, not even Axel was there to comfort me.
My eyes still felt dry and red from last night. As I got up and brushed the sand off my knees I heard voices coming from inside the hut.
"Tara you have to calm down, you must give him a chance!"
I could hear her crying still.
"I know its hard dear, but you can't let it get to you!"
Soon Jason walked out and shook his head at me. I only glared at him and poked my head inside.
"Tara may I please talk to you alone?"
She wiped the tears coming out of her eyes and tried to say, "I guess so, if it's about us."
I closed the door on my way in that was just installed yesterday.
I slowly put my hand on her shoulder, "I want you to understand something right now Tara, I really do like you a lot and you're a very pretty young girl!"
She looked up at me with a twinkle in her eye, "Do you really mean that Brian?"
I took a deep breath as I said this next thing, "I want you to know that sometimes I can have rapid mood changes or emotions rather, I have a medical disorder which causes me to act one way and then completely different the next. I have seizures in other words."
She dried out her face and leaned over to give me a hug, "Brian I still liked you before you told me that, I want you to know you can trust me…I…I love you!"
My eyes began to fill up with tears again, "Even after everything I said yesterday? Why didn't you just tell me?"
We sat there for what seemed like a week before we finally got up, and then we both agreed that we were going to take it day by day.
She whispered into my ear, "If you come back in an hour I want to show you something." I felt a big surge of energy run through me at that exact moment.
As I walked outside Jason happen to be standing there, without hesitation I put my arm around him, "It looks like we're still friends man!"
He smiled and turned around and went back to helping Cree with making some kind of flower hat. I gave out a breath of relief and went down by the shore and looked out over the horizon.
"Beautiful isn't it, love I mean" Axel said as he came up beside me."
I gave him a big hug, "You have no idea do you? I don't know what I was doing wrong this whole time!"
He seemed breath taken by it and calmly said, "Uh Brian could you ease up a bit I think you're choking me."
Embarrassingly I let go not saying anything.
"So do you think everything will be alright?" I asked.
He looked at me like I still had something that was bothering me, "Trust me Brian, I'm here to help you, don't give it another thought!"
My stomach began to talk to me, "I think we'd better eat before I puke out my brains. I haven't eaten since yesterday."
He gasped, "Well then leave it to me, give me five minutes and I'll get you something worth while."
I headed back towards the hut and sat down, my stomach for some reason didn't agree with something I had eaten a while ago. Even after Axel brought me something it seemed to get worse.
"I think you had better go inside and lay down!"
He warned, "I've seen this before, if you don't want to become weak you should go sleep for a while."
I took his advice and headed inside.
Tara happened to be standing there in her entry way, "So Brian is you ready?"
She hadn't noticed that I didn't feel good, "I'm sorry Tara but it'll have to wait until tomorrow right now my stomach feels like shit!"
She gave me a hug, "Well at least it's something you'll get to wait for even more now!"
I lied down on the bed knowing Jason wouldn't mind and closed my eyes. Everything around me seemed to be spinning and making me even dizzier then before. My breathing picked up and I felt like my heart had come up to my throat. I yelled for Jason to come in, but it was too late. My leg began to shake badly and my eyes rolled to the back of my head.
"Jason where are you!"
He ran in right after that and tried to control my body, "Brian hold still! Tara, go get some water now!"
Tara was crying again and couldn't seem to stop it so Cree grabbed a bucket and ran outside to get some water. Soon I had regained my breath but my body was still very weak from the shock. Jason told them it was a mild seizure and that I should be alright within a few hours. He didn't leave my side until I was better again.
I looked over at him with tears in my eyes, "Do I have any more medication?" He looked through my bag getting out the bottles, "You have one pill left Brian, what should we do?"
I thought about it for a second, "I guess there's nothing we can do. I have to face the truth whether I like it or not!" I took in a deep breath and felt my heart rising again. "Jason…" and again my leg went out of control, only this time it didn't last as long.
Axel came in soon with some kind of needle like object, "Brian if you can hear me I need you to not move at all, this is going to hurt!"
I faintly looked over at him and felt a sharp pain in my arm. Both he and Jason looked further away as my vision went out.
Jason looked at him, "What was that that you put in him?"
Axel didn't respond, he only continued wrapping a vine around my arm, "It's a secret formula that's been known to stop several medical conditions from ever happening again, one of which being epilepsy.
"Then how come no one has found out about it?"
Axel looked up with a solid face, "Well think about it, which else has been on this island that had something as bad as Brian. It looks like he's had it bad for a while."
The only thing Jason could do was watch and listen, "I've known him since we started high school though we were never close at the time…I didn't realize he had it until our sophomore year when one game in soccer he had one on the side line. Only the coach knew what to do."
Axel tried shaking me a few times to see if I was awake at all but I didn't budge. "Well let's leave him be for a while and see what happens."
Tara and Cree were outside by the fire, "Is he going to be alright!" Tara cried.
Axel nodded his head, "If our timing is right he shouldn't have another seizure as long as he's alive. We must give him time."