Chapter 5 -- Coma

"Hello Miss Singer, would you care to join us?

"Oh crap that doesn't sound so good." Katie says to herself. "Here I am dancing around a place I haven't been to in forever, dreaming that I'm sixteen again. It's not like I don't have fond memories of back then but a lot has happened since. At least I know that much. And the last time someone asked me that question was a bad day here. Then I wrote that letter to Jessie and things got worse. But things had a way of working out."

"I wonder who that voice belongs to. The last time was Dimitri but he is long gone and that doesn't sound any thing like him. I'm not sure I want to go in there right yet. Maybe if I wait long enough they will come looking for me and I'll get to see who it is."

"Maybe I'll just wake up and this won't turn into a nightmare. Of course that would be too easy. I have a feeling that there is nothing easy about all of this.Oh man I hope whoever that is doesn't start asking me whole lot of questions. I can't say that I am proud of every decision I have made but I never intentionally tried to hurt any one along the way. Of course they might just be taking a dream survey. Okay, that is so totally stupid even I won't buy that one.

"I wonder if I'm going to get to play Ground Hog Day. That would be so cool. But only if I get to pick the day. That's gonna be a hard one because I have a lot of favorite DAYS. And nights. Any day with Jessie is a good day. I don't care if she is screaming and throwing things, just being with her is good enough. Believe me I have definitely been without lately, but I think we are going to fix that.

"Ahh, Costa Rica. Now that whole week was good. Even the airport was a good day .Cooooosta Riiiiiiiiiiica. Fun in the sun, a semi private beach and arms full of Jessie. That's definitely reliveable, but you only get that lucky once. I'll always get to keep the memory though.

"I can't imagine what someone in a classroom all these years later would want with me. It's not like I haven't learned anything over the years since I've left this place. I know there is plenty more to learn but why here? Are they going to teach me the error of my ways? Are they going to give me a hard time about when I had a WWJD bracelet and asked what would Jessie do? I meant no disrespect, but I don't think in this day and age that Jesus is going to worry about hair and makeup right?

"Although I must say that did help my focus on a lot of thing only because I took the time to actually stop and think things through for a change instead of rushing right ahead. Remind me thank Jesus for that one when I say my prayers at night.

"Okay, let's go back to Ground Hog Day. Or now that I'm thinking about it how about any old day. Or better yet how abut some cool nights, or hot nights. Yeah that's it hot starry nights. I'll never forget that hot starry night before horse camp started that summer before Jessie left for Australia. Man oh man what a night that was. What a way to cap off a really great day. The counselors got to take the barn slaves on a trail ride after setting up for opening day. And then there was an awesome cookout with a really cool sunset going on. And then when it got dark Jessie and I took a blanket out to the back pasture. We laid there and talked for a while. Well we started out talking, But then there was some kissing, yeah that's it talking and kissing. Hot starry nights talking and kissing and……………………………………………

tbc