Chapter 10, Waking up and Finale

Rosie sat with her back pressed against the Hazel door, continuing to tell herself to wake herself up. But repeating this phrase wasn't doing much, so finally, she decided to close her eyes, as a gentle breeze brushed against her pink hair, and she took several deep breaths.

"Rosie? Rosie?" She heard Hazel calling from behind her.

Hazel's voice continued to call Rosie's name, until the voice moved from coming behind her, to coming off to her right. No sooner had the direction in which Hazel's voice was coming in changed when Rosie opened her eyes. Upon opening them, she was no longer in Make Believe Land. Rather, she found herself, in a hospital bed, back in the room where she was before she went down for her surgery. She looked over to her right to find Hazel next to the bed, and Hazel's mommy standing behind her. Rosie then looked and standing next to Hazel was her own mommy, daddy, and big sister Mary. As her eyes adjusted to the light, she noticed that she felt soar down where her stomach use to hurt, but the pain wasn't nearly as bad as it was before she went to sleep.

"Hi Rosie, how are you doing?" Hazel asked.

"I had an interesting dream, but I don't wanna tell anybody quite yet. Is it possible for us to call Peter and Tommy on your iPad Mary?" Rosie asked.

"Sorry, I can't use my iPad in the recovery room, but once they move you to a regular hospital room, I should be able to use it. Other than that, how are you feeling sis?" Mary asked.

"I'm soar, but I don't hurt as bad as I did before I fell asleep. I guess having my pendix out wasn't as bad as I thought it would be." Said Rosie.

"See? I told you it wouldn't be that bad, and remember what else I told you? You don't even need your appendix, so you're not missing anything important at all." Said Mary, as she smiled, and Rosie sat up and took Mary's hand, smiling back at her.

A few minutes later, a nurse came in and proclaimed they would be moving Rosie to a regular hospital room. They wanted her to at least eat one meal at the hospital before releasing her to ensure everything was ok. Rosie was then moved to a hospital room down the hall from the recovery room, and her family and Hazel's family followed the nurse and Rosie to the room.

Once Rosie was situated, Shannon and Terry looked at the menu to find something they thought Rosie might enjoy eating. Rosie was hungry, so she only hoped the hospital served really good food. No sooner had she thought this, when some food was delivered. She had a lunch of some soup, macaroni and cheese, green jell-o, a chocolate pudding cup, and an orange juice. Rosie was so hungry, she ate and drank everything in sight.

After her lunch, she took a short nap, only to awaken about half an hour later to Mary holding her iPad in front of Rosie.

"Guess who wants to talk to you Rosie?" Said Mary, as Rosie looked at the iPad to see Peter's picture on the screen, thankful it was the good Peter who called Mary's iPad, not that evil dark one that appeared in her dream when she gventured to Make Believe Land.

"Hi Rosie, how are you feeling?" Peter asked.

"I'm a little soar, but I'm feeling better." Rosie replied.

"I'm walking up the steps of Tommy's front porch right now." Said Peter, as he rang the Pickles' doorbell, and Didi opened the door.

"Well hello Peter, what brings you here today?" Didi asked when she answered the door to find Peter standing there.

"I just came by to play with Tommy and Dil for a little while." Peter replied.

"Oh, ok, well come on in. They're in the living room. Hopefully you coming will cheer Tommy up." Said Didi.

"Is something wrong?" Peter asked.

"Tommy hasn't been quite himself today. He only ate about half of his breakfast, hardly touched his lunch, and took two naps today. I don't think he's taken multiple naps in one day since he had the Gray Plague last summer. He's also been quite cranky today too." Said Didi.

"Awe, I wouldn't worry Didi, it's been a rainy day, it's quite possible the weather's got him down." Said Peter.

"I suppose so. Well, I'll be in the kitchen making dinner if you need anything." Said Didi, as she disappeared out of view and Peter crouched down on the floor, the screen on Mary's iPad now showing Tommy, Dil and Zack.

"Well hey kids, guess who I've got on my iPhone?" Peter asked.

"Hi Rosie." Said Tommy.

"Hey Tommy." Replied Rosie.

"How are you feeling? I heardid you had to have surgery." Said Tommy.

"I'm better, and you won't believe what happened to me while I was asleep!" Said Rosie.

"What?" Tommy asked.

"I had the strangest dream, where I went to this place called Make Believe Land. You were a bunny rabbit, or better yet, a dust bunny, which, in this land, they're actual bunnies who are very friendly. Hazel was the door that led in and out of the land, Chuckie was a butterfly, Phil and Lil toldid me a story about some warthog named Jesse and a carpenter named Zack who ate wormies, a girl named Susie, along with my friends Natalie, Courtney and Hanna were singing dandelions, and Kimi taught me about celebrating the holidays when it wasn't the holidays, something called unholidays." Explained Rosie.

"Oh wow how neat!" Said Tommy.

"Was I there?" Dil asked.

"Yep, you were a cricket, and you were good friends with Tommy!" Replied Rosie.

"What about me?" Peter asked.

"You were there, but you weren't very nice. You wore purple and black clothes, Angelica was your queen, and you two tried to hurt me really badly. Luckily, I had Reptar bars to eat, which made me the size of Reptar, and vegetables that when I eated them, they made me the size of a crumb, so I could escape and return home, safe and sound." Said Rosie.

"Sounds like an interesting dream!" Said Dil.

"I'm Zack, remember me Rosie?" Zack asked, as he waved his hand in front of the screen, making it appear on Mary's iPad.

"Sure do Zack." Replied Rosie.

"So how do you feel after your surgery Rosie?" Peter asked.

"Well, I was ascared, but now that it's all over, I see that having my pendix out wasn't so bad after all, and the bestest part is, you don't need your pendix in the firstest place!" Said Rosie excitedly.

"Yay!" Everybody said together.

"Well everyone, I can't stay at Tommy and Dil's for too long, but I just wanted to stop by and let everyone say hi to you since it was obvious that poor Tommy here has been worried sick about you since I told him about your appendicitis last night." Said Peter.

"Sorry to worry you like that Tommy." Said Rosie.

"It's ok Rosie, I'm just glad you're all better." Said Tommy.

"Me too, and soon, I'll be able to go home from the hopcickle, and everything will go back to normen. I just might be soar for a little while, that's all." Said Rosie.

"Well Rosie I'm gonna have to go, but you have a speedy recovery, and we'll talk to you later." Said Peter.

"Bye bye." Said Rosie, as she waved her hand in front of the screen, before the Facetime call was disconnected.

A couple of hours later, Rosie was released from the hospital, and she went home to her apartment, thankful to be getting back to normal, and realizing that while Make Believe Land was fun, there are things that are nice about the world she lives in too, like getting through her surgery without any issues, and knowing that everything was going to be ok.

The End