Chapter 5
Cheated Death Again
Footsteps. That's what Julie heard first. But wait! She thought. There couldn't be footsteps here. But where was here? Where did people go after they died?
Where did people who jumped of buildings not to commit suicide but to escape the same building which had caught fire and to escape the Grim Reaper's clutches?
All these questions were buzzing around her head which had a throbbing sensation. Wait! How could her head be throbbing if she was dead?
The footsteps had stopped and now she could hear voices. Only one of the voices sounded familiar but who was it? And then it hit her.
"Mum" she said as she opened her eyes. First all she could see was white then her mum's face swam into view. "Julie" she cried. Her mum looked different since the last time she had seen her.
Her mum's well kept now lay all over the place like she had just gotten out of bed. Her eyes were red and puffy and her face was white. "Oh darling" she said "are you alright?" "Mum" said Julie. That's all she could say. How could she be here?
Julie was dead or she was supposed to be at least. Another man appeared by her side. He was wearing a white jacket with a sthetescope around his neck.
He looked like a……… doctor.
And then it hit her. She was in the hospital. She suddenly remembered Kevin, Wendy and………. the boy. She couldn't believe that she didn't know his name.
He had saved her from dying. She hoped he had survived. Not only had he saved her but he looked cute as well. She mentally kicked her self. How could she be thinking about a thing like that? He could be dead for all she knew. That thought made her sit up.
"Mum" she said her leaping to her throat. "Where are…" But she didn't have to finish her question. Her mum clearly understood what she was asking because she said, "They are fine. You landed on the grass which made your fall softer and it's the reason you're alive."
Julie sighed in relief. "They are alive? Kevin, Wendy and the…. boy?" She saw her mum frown and went panicky again. But then her mum said, "Oh yes! The boy who they found with you."
Again Julie sighed with relief. "Is he alive?" "Yes" her mum said. But Julie knew that something was wrong. Her mum was not telling her something.
"Mum" she said cautiously "what's wrong?" As she asked she already dreaded the answer. "It's Kevin" Julie felt her insides turn cold. "What happened to him?" she asked. Her mum looked at her with sad eyes "He's gone into coma."