Now now I know what you're thinking and I deeply apologize ~
Hadn't really have any ideas for this for a long while and I also had a couple of family trips, which didn't help.
But hey! The next chapter is finally here! Unfortunately it isn't very long, sorry, but it's better than nothing.
Hope ya enjoy! And ya know the things of who belongs to who already XP
A COUPLE DAYS LATER…
In the center of a small, and strangely familiar, field sat a child porcupine with his mother accompanying him.
"Mommy…" The child looked up to his mom with a daisy in his hand.
"Yes dear?" She replied as she gathered some flowers, making a sort of necklace with them.
"How come there's no train here?" He asked as he handed over his daisy.
The mother chuckled to the question, "Because honey. They closed the train operation here a long time ago. But I hear they're planning to have a reopening one day."
She weaved the stems of each flower carefully.
"And Surf, dear, how was your first day of kindergarten?"
The little four year old was silent.
"Oh Surf… did you not have a good day?" She lifted him onto her lap and gave a caring yet worried look toward her son.
"Nobody likes me…" The child murmured sadly.
"Now Surf, you know that is not true." She said as she tried to get him to believe that.
"You just need to be patient, maybe everyone's shy."
"Like how everyone was shy last year?" Surf looked up at his mother again with big eyes.
His mom gave him a sad look but smiled afterwards.
"Well Surf, you just need to give everyone time to open up to you, or, might I say, bloom like a flower." She put the flower necklace on Surf, he looked at the flowers.
"Bloom?" Surf questioned.
"Yes, let's say, for instance, a bee and a flower, while a flower is a bud like that one." She pointed to a rose that was all closed up while a bee approached it.
"The bee won't be able to see what's inside, since the flower isn't ready." The bee flew away and approached a Poppy.
"But once ready, the bee will find the sweetest of things that was hidden away not too long ago." The bee landed in the center of the flower and did its small search for nectar.
"Now, in this case, the sweetest of things will be everyone's personality and way of friendship."
Surf smiled since his mother gave him hope for friends in the future.
"I can't wait for everyone to bloom…" He gave her a big hug.
"I can't wait either Sweetie." She returned the hug.
Way up in the sky, the sun shined ever so bright but the brightness started becoming intense. Everything was blurring with white, the trees disappeared, and the tracks wisped away.
Surf himself started opening his eyes. The lights were dim as he came around.
"My gosh…" He closed his eyes for a moment then opened them again.
He turned his head left, then right, to get a good look of where he was.
When realization struck of where he was he laughed a bit, but not too much as his chest hurt.
"What's so funny?" A familiar voice asked as a rabbit came to view.
"What's going on Kathy?" Surf said in a croaky voice as he smiled.
"Awww, I'm so glad you remember me!" She hopped a couple times out of joy.
"How could I not? You are one of the strangest people I've ever known… next to Jo-Cher." Surf explained.
"You're too kind." She said as she did a wave as if saying "Oh stop it!"
"Anyway… how long have I been out?" He asked out of curiosity.
"Six days." She answered as she started writing on that clip board of hers that she got out of nowhere.
Surf breathed through his teeth, "Ouch, been sleeping my days away lately, gotta stop doing that."
"Got any suggestions?" Surf looked up at Kathy.
She thought for a moment.
"Yeah I got one." She looked Surf happily.
"How about you, stop getting yourself almost KILLED!" She yelled at him out of frustration.
He gave her a weird look.
"Okay… I'll try to do that."
"You mean you'll try not to do that, right?"
"Whut?" Surf leaned to the side so that his elbows were on the edge while he was on his side.
"Well you said you'll do that." Kathy pointed out.
"Yeah."
"Well basically you said that you'll try to get yourself almost killed again."
"No, no, no. I said I'll try to do that as in I'll try to stop doing exactly that."
"Really…?"
"Yes… really."
Kathy tapped the tip of her chin with her pencil.
"Well I keep thinking about it and it really sounds like the opposite."
"But I meant the opposite of that opposite."
"Are you sure you didn't accidently mean the opposite of my opposite's opposite."
"Umm…" Surf was cross eyed from all the opposites.
"What!" Surf exclaimed, not being able to take it all in since he just woke up.
"I have no idea." Kathy smiled.
Surf gave her another look before he lied on his back again.
"My head hurts now…" Surf rubbed his forehead with his real hand.
"Knew you were going to say that!" She threw some pills at him while she was already at the medicine cabinet.
Surf caught them and noticed that a bottle of water was already on his night stand.
"Are you secretly Sonic the Hedgehog or something?" Surf joked.
"Oh nooooooo… I'm not hiimmm." She put her head back so that her face wasn't behind the cabinet door and showed a smile.
"… You're scaring me Kathy."
"Oh I scare everyone!" She said with a hint of insanity as she hid her face behind the door again.
Surf had a creeped out look as he turned his attention back to the bottle of pills. He took some, put them in him mouth, and washed them down.
"I'm surprised you didn't no-"Surf interrupted Kathy.
"Yeah yeah, I noticed the misplaced pill. I just thought to heck with it and take it. Not like I'll be able to sleep so easily with the pain in my chest."
"Ah yes, speaking of that." Kathy slammed the cabinet doors shut.
She walked over to Surf while speaking, "Honestly, I'm surprised you survived, no offense." She stopped next to his bed.
"None taken."
She continued, "With the fact that your heart was completely gone and over half of your left lung was destroyed. You had almost no chance to live. But life is always full of surprises and you just managed to pull through."
"And I'm glad for that." Surf said with a relieved sigh.
"So… did I have to get a replacement lung?"
"Oh you've had a mechanical lung long before that happened!" She threw her arms to emphasize how long ago it was.
"I did? Snowy didn't tell me that!" Surf pouted.
"Yeaahh… anyway if that lung was real you would have absolutely no chance to live."
"What makes it so special?" Surf asked.
"Well, unlike a real lung, if that mechanical lung gets damaged the other parts of it work harder due to the absents of that one part. So the more of that lung stops working or gets damaged, the harder the rest of it works. But of course it has its limits of how hard it can work."
"Is my right lung also mechanical?"
"No. You know the fact that your right lung is bigger than your left really helped you too!"
"That's really… interesting." Surf stated.
"I KNOOWW RIGHT!"
"Can you stop yelling…?" Surf asked when his head pounded once.
"SUURRREEE!"
"And now to rearrange the medicine cabinet." Then away she went to the cabinet.
A couple moments afterwards Surf started feeling groggy.
"And the wooziness starts!" Surf then passed out.
"People look so cute when they get knocked unconscious." Kathy said to herself.
At the same moment, the door slid open with Dr. Ricardo and Jo-Cher walked in, well Jo-Cher did a more of charging in.
"Aw, you two just missed him; he's in a deep sleep right now." Kathy informed them.
"Man!" Jo-Cher kicked at the ground.
"He's always deep in sleep…" She pouted.
She thought for a moment.
"I'LL GET THE ICE!" She ran to the door but Ricardo grabbed her arm before she could get out.
"Hold your horses Jo-Cher, even ice can't wake Surf from the Knock-Out Pill… you used one right?" He looked at Kathy for confirmation.
"Yup, yup, yup! And I didn't have to trick him this time!" (DUCKY!)
"Dawww…" Jo-Cher pouted again.
"I was hoping I could talk to him but I guess that'll have to wait." Ricardo sighed.
"About?" Kathy asked.
"I was just going to inform him about his parents and about the fate of Conor."
"And don't forget about Twilight and Blurr and Treador and that Lisp." Jo-Cher mentioned.
"Oh right them." Ricardo felt a little dumb for forgetting about them.
"What happened to them anyway?" Kathy became curious about what their outcome was.
"Well Twilight went back home with the Lisp accompanying her, Blurr disappeared, and Treador is just somewhere in the facility." Ricardo said as he counted them with his fingers.
"What about Conor?"
"He's in a little prison that we made especially for him." Ricardo had an evil smile.
"At least he knows where our place is! After all, it has been a big dream of his to know where we are." Jo-Cher said jokingly.
All three of them laughed at the irony.
"Well we don't have to worry about him anymore." Ricardo reassured.
"Good, I hate big meanies like him." Kathy growled.
"Kathy… you hate a lot of things…" Jo-Cher stated with a bored expression and crossed arms.
"I have good reasons to hate what I hate!" Kathy exclaimed.
"Is there really ANY reason to hate beans as much as you do?" Jo-Cher raised a brow.
"Beans are evil, EVIEELLL I TELL YOU!" Kathy screeched.
Jo-Cher and Ricardo had an "Unimpressed" look on their faces.
"Riigggghhhhtttt…" Ricardo pretended to believe her.
"So when do you believe Surf will be awake again?"
"Hmmm… in about five hours." Kathy calculated.
"But I'm impatiiieennnttt!" Jo-Cher whined.
"BAD FOR YOOOUU!" Kathy taunted.
Jo-Cher just stared at her.
"Well let's go Jo-Cher; we're not helping by standing here." Ricardo suggested.
"True…" Jo-Cher slumped out of the room.
"Does Jo-Cher have a crush on Surf or something?" Kathy asked.
"You never really know when it comes to Jo-Cher, Kathy." Ricardo replied.
Kathy gave a last moment look of where Jo-Cher disappeared before she wrote some more on her clip board.
Ricardo was about to leave but the clip board caught his attention.
"Do you even write anything on that?"
"Of course I do!" She turned it over to show a bunch of mathematical equations.
She turned it back over to continue writing.
"I use the math to estimate how the condition of the patient is."
"How do you do that?" Ricardo never knew she was so mathematical.
"Well I watch closely and see how many times they breathe in and out per minute as well as observe how shallow or how heavy the breathing is. I also watch for any random twitches when they're asleep so I can know how the nerves are and stuff. There are a lot of other things I watch for but it would take forever for me to explain." Kathy smiled the whole time.
Ricardo only gave her a weird look.
"No one ceases to surprise me anymore in this facility." He said as he walked away.
Hoped ya liked it and don't worry I'll try to make the next chapter longer!
Don't ferget to reviiieewww for Surf! :D