Disclaimer: "Hi, I'm Dan and I've just handed the rights for iCarly over to e s c r i t u r a . c h i c a !" ...Yeah, if I were that lucky! Heh ;)
iStay The Same - Chapter Four
Is it necessary to explain for the third time that I awake in the same room? The room was dark, but the blinds to the window were still open so I could somewhat look outside to the dark night. There didn't seem to be a moon out tonight.. But it could've just been on the other side or something. It was awfully silent in the room and I didn't enjoy it all too much.
I ring the nurse's button located next to me. Maybe I could ask Meg (my nurse) if she could bring me a glass of water or something. My throat was pretty dry. I refused to think of the reason because it brought back memories that would anger me. I'd rather not waste my energy getting hyper over someone that didn't deserve my respect. I didn't know why Sam was related to him... and how?
Meg walked in and turned on the lights. I squeeze my eyes shut at the sudden contact with bright light. "Sorry," she whispers. "I didn't think it was you who was awake."
What did that mean? I didn't see (or hear) anyone else in the room... Until now. Turning my head to the left, I see Sam lay on the couch, uncomfortably. She had groaned as soon as the lights flicked on and Meg started whispering to me. I didn't know she was spending the night here. She rose up from her sitting-and-sleeping position on the couch and straightened her clothes. She wore the same jeans and t-shirt I'd seen her wear earlier. It was clearly the same night of the same day. Regardless, the point was that she looked really uncomfortable in the pair of clothing she wore to sleep.
"Is there anything you need?" Meg asked me.
I nod though my eyes still remain on Sam as she still fixes her hair, "A glass of water if that's alright, please,"
"Sure, I'll be right back." I knew she was gone when I heard the door shut close slowly. It didn't make noise; just the little click sound the door always makes when it closes. Sam finally looks up from her clothes and focuses her eyes on me. I feel my lips stretch into a smile. She mirrors my movements and I see her smile reach her eyes upon seeing me.
I pull myself up into a sitting position as she walks up to me and sits on the chair beside the bed, like she does usually. I can't help but notice her head wrapped in a white bandage. "What happened?" she knew what I was talking about.
She sighs heavily, "Nothing really. Just one of Marks' stupid moves. Are you alright?"
I nod in answer to her question, but I was still worried about her. "What happened after I blanked out?" I wasn't in desperate need to know, even though my voice sounded it, but it'd be nice to find out what had happened with the man I grew to detest in just the span of two days time.
"Security was called," she began to explain. "He was taken away and banned from the hospital. Later, I was informed about Police getting involved in the situation due to his drug use I was unaware of till now. He's threatened to kill both of us, and I'm being held here for the week or until further notice."
"Wow" I said immediately after she stopped speaking. "That's pretty intense."
"Yeah, but let's not worry about that at all."
"Agreed." I flash her with a small smile. She smiled back at me and opened her mouth to say something, but was interrupted upon hearing a musical ringing go off in the background. She turns around, my own eyes following her as she walks towards the sound, and picks up her ringing cell phone from off the couch. Her face turned pink: a sign of embarrassment. It was probably because she forgot to put it on silent in the hospital.
"Hello?" She speaks into the receiver. I hear mumbles coming from the other line and I can tell by the voice of the mumbling person, that it's a female.
"No, I wasn't at home." ... "Probably won't be for the rest of the week or more." ... "It's a long story." ... "With Freddie," ... "Probably not. I haven't yet" ... "Okay, bye, Carls." Sam snaps her phone shut and drops it back on the couch before heading back to sit on the chair beside me again.
"That was Carly," she informed. She'd told me about her before.. Us three were best friends and did a web show called iCarly in our teen years, before the three of us split up to go to different locations for our post-secondary studies. She had yet to tell me everything else about myself, herself and the others I was related to that she knew of.
As random as my thought may be, I could help but ask her: "Do I have a mother?" Realizing that sounded rather odd, I felt my cheeks and ears turn hot. My time to be embarrassed for throwing a random, very weird question at her at this time of night. Wait... What was the time of night? Oh, too many questions were lingering my mind at the moment.
Sam chuckled at me, her eyes glowing up again. She looked so beautiful when her smile reached her eyes like that. She was beautiful in spite of that; even when she were angry. "Yes, you do have a mother. Lucky for you, you told me about her before this happened. She's currently visiting her brother in New Jersey and is due to arrive back next week, actually."
"Does she know about me?" I ask.
"Yeah, I did inform her about your situation. She was worried to death, and I'm sure she still is. I didn't inform her about you waking yet. She said she'll call me when she arrives back in Seattle and you can meet her."
"Do I have a father?" She knew this question was coming next, because I saw the sparkle in her eyes disappear and her smile turn upside down.
"Unfortunately, your father left your mother and you when we were quite young. He didn't pass.. he moved to another state with another woman." It was good she added him moving and not passing.. It would've been my next question. Saves both of us more time.
The nurse, Meg, walked in with a tray of food. She walked to the other side of the bed silently and places the tray on my lap after motioning if it was alright for the tray to be placed there. "Thank you," I say. "But I only needed water." I chuckle foolishly.
"I know, but I'm sure you were hungry. We can't let you not eat for the whole day. You've hadn't had anything all day." Yeah, that made sense. And I actually was pretty hungry. My stomach churned as I took in the sight of food. I guess it was loud because my ears heard soft giggles come from both Sam and Meg.
"Sam, won't you eat? And how about you, too, Meg?" I ask them. I hadn't began eating my food yet. I'd only looked at the tray which included a cup of soup, a sandwich with meat and cheese, salad with no dressing, fruit cup and pudding. Of course, not forgetting my glass of water by the side. Heh!
"I already ate, thanks," Meg replied. "Sam, would you like me to get something for you?"
I noticed Sam staring at my meat and cheese sandwich with her mouth wide open. "Do you want my sandwich?"
She shakes her head and moves her gaze back to mine. "No, no... No, no, no." she stammers. I see her small struggles to look away from the sandwich. I chuckle to myself. Picking up the sandwich from the tray, as well as some napkins, I hand them to her. She shakes her head at me, "They're for you. Look how skinny you got, you need to eat."
"I'm sure I'll live, Sam, and I'm not that hungry anyway. Please take the sandwich... For me?" I smile at her. It's not like I lied, I really wasn't that hungry. Besides I would live if I didn't get to have a sandwich in a day.
"I'll get some more of those." Meg said and left the room without giving either of us a chance to reply. She returned with two more sandwiches in less than two minutes. She passed one to Sam so she had two to enjoy, and one to me. So it was settled that I would definitely live now that I had gained the sandwich I had lost. I mentally chuckled to myself but felt my smile go wider. I wonder if my sarcasm was as weird as it was now when I was myself about a month ago. Ha-ha!
"Mmh, I love ham, duuuuudee." I hear Sam say as she stuffs her face with the sandwich. I can't help but laugh at her eating manner. Her staying here for the whole week just made me realize how much fun it was going to be. In some way, should I be thankful to lunatic Mark?
After we had dinner, Meg took the tray of now empty wrappers and disposable utensils away. After she'd taken care of that, she patiently helped me out of my bed and to the washroom. Sam and I decided to take a walk around the hospital as I felt pretty darn stiff from laying on bed for quite a long time. As we walked, she told me more stuff about myself; mostly about how my teen years were. I learned about myself that I was a "tech-geek" , Sam told me several nicknames she addressed me by and promised to do so till the day she stops breathing. By the time we got back to my room it had felt like I'd re-lived my teen years through Sam's words. When she and Meg helped me back on the bed, Sam took her seat beside me and continued to speak of certain memories shared on iCarly.
"I remember when you and I shared our first kiss," she smiled staring off into space, guessing the smile came from remembering the moment. I didn't know I had been close to Sam. "You were extremely mad at me because I told the whole world you had never kissed anyone on iCarly. You didn't get out of your room for a whole week. You skipped rehearsals and refused to be a part of iCarly that week. I apologized to the world about the personal piece of information that I had leaked about you and admitted that I, too, had never kissed anyone before. That was when we had shared our first kiss."
She turned her gaze back at me and smiled. "You got quite a big smile there, Fredward."
I hadn't realized I was smiling foolishly and chuckled nervously. "Tell me more about that. What did you do after you told everyone about yourself on iCarly?"
"Well, after eating a whole bowl of a hundred meatballs, I came to the fire escape where you were basically spending your week. Out of a hundred, I'd only had ninety-nine meatballs; I'd saved one for you. Anyways, well... We both got talking and I apologized about everything that I'd done to you but still promised to keep making your life miserable with the exception of apologizing every few years. We both thought it was stupid how everyone made a big fuss over their first kiss and wished to just get it over with." she explained with as much detail as possible. She gave me time to soak in all the information I'd just received, but continued explaining to me the memory of our first romantic interaction.
"You and I both were thinking of kissing each other just to get it over with. When we did share a kiss which lasted about eight seconds or so, we vowed that no one was to find out. But Carly found out one day when I was on laughing gas at the dentist. Since then, we didn't keep any secrets from one another." she concluded.
I realized my lips were still stretched into the small smile, I couldn't help but wish I'd remember the memory. Remember anything- even one piece of memory- rather than nothing. I was hoping to get some parts of my memory back when the monitor attached to me had been unplugged of some wires, but I suppose not.
I stayed the same... For now.
Author's Notes:
Hey guys! I'm extremely sorry for the really really long delay. I just got a little busy as Summer is almost at end and most of my friends are going away for August (LUCKY!) so I was just trying to spend as much time with them as possible. I hope you guys like this chapter or at least found it satisfactory! :) Things start taking place from after here so look out for the coming chapter (Just in the process of writing it right now, hehe). Love to hear from you guys!
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