After a head injury, people aren't the only things Lilly Truscott can see.


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he's building up a shine but he takes it slow
and he knows its time to make a change here
and time to get away
and he knows its time for all the wrong reasons
and time to end the pain
but we sleep all day over again
why don't we?

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When Lilly first woke up, along with the whole drunk thing and the arguing in her hospital room, it was almost humorous that she was rather confused as to why her head hurt like crap to begin with and why she was even in a hospital. Everyone suddenly shut up and she felt very stupid for asking what had happened and why she was in a hospital, of which she did not enjoy being in at all.

"You mean you don't remember?!" Miley had very nearly shrieked into her ear.

She backed off a moment later with the death glare Lilly was giving her.

"Well, honey," Heather Truscott had explained that sickeningly sweet voice of hers, "You...were in a car accident."

The confused look Lilly was giving her didn't change, if not becoming more confused.

"Lilly?" Robbie Ray, now calmed down and sitting in a chair opposite her bed, said. "You were in a car accident. A week ago. You've been unconscious for the last six days."

Well. That pretty much cleared everything up. But that didn't stop the idiotic and slightly slurred, "What?" that left her mouth before she even had a thought to stop it.

"You swerved when this guy pulled out in front of you," Miley explained rather quickly. For a brief second Lilly not only questioned her sanity but wondered if maybe 'someone' had found the coffee machine. "You were going pretty quickly, and when you swerved, you drove into a metal pole. It pretty much crushed your car, from what I heard. But, then again, I only heard about the car accident, so for all we know it may have been different, you may have ran into the pole yourself. But, I guess no one knows but the police who are good at that kind of stuff."

'Definitely not decaf.' - that was the next thought Lilly had, watching her friend explain why she had been unconscious for the last week. And so she said the above statement out loud, mainly on accident. Who knew what the hospital was jetting into her bloodstream.

"What?" was Miley's immediate, confused response.


The guy, maybe her age if not older, reappeared a split second later behind her and she spun around. "Who - no ... what are you?" Lilly managed to get out, the look of pure disbelief on her face probably still looking extremely ridiculous.

He shrugged, a sly grin still on his face. "Same as you two," He said with a gesture to both Lilly and Oliver.

It was then that, almost suddenly, she found herself staring at a teenager with an enormous gunshot wound to his right temple.

"Oh my God," Lilly said, her voice surprisingly quiet. "You..."

He put on an even larger grin, if that was possible. "I what?"

"But - how - why -" Lilly began, her stuttering almost humorous. She was cut off by the guy.

"Like I said, dearie, same as you and him, right?"

When she didn't reply, he blinked. "Wait...how did you..." He trailed off, looking over her. "You look perfectly fine to me."

She spun around to face Oliver, the color fading from her face. "Oliver, am I dead?!" She near-hysterically whispered to him.

When he shook his head rapidly, she spun back around. "That...that's because I am fine...I think..." she whispered weakly in response.

The guy blinked at her. "Wait...you..." After a moment he backed up. "You can see me." When she didn't say anything he just gave her a bewildered look. "You're alive...but you can see me."

She shook her head. "Oh God. Oh God," She began to state repeatedly, spinning around to look at Oliver again. "Oliver...Oliver, you're...dead...aren't you?"

And then, oh yes, then, as if Lilly's life hadn't become complicated enough, her peripheral vision suddenly deteriorated and the central ischaemic response took over.

She hit the ground a second later.


Haha, you know, it's the strangest thing. I actually write better at 3 in the morning. oo apologizing for chapter shortness. i just needed this cliffhanger :) it's pure gold, right? i WILL update soon because i can't just stop writing after a cliffhanger like this!

:D