Life of Audry

Jaycie

The speed I am driving down this familiar road is unspeakable, reckless even. I notice every tree, rock, and crack in the road. The AM radio was playing a newscast speaking about an accident that happened four years ago. A girl was recklessly driving down Erhke lane after dealing with a breakup with her boyfriend of two years. Much like the accident Jesse was talking about. She went too fast around the bend in the road and totaled her car. Since then she's been in a coma, doctors are now saying there's a possibility of her awaking from it, due to the brainwaves she's been giving off. 

*BEEEP* *(tires screeching)*  

My upper body flew up and air has flown into my lungs. I slouch over staring at white knitted sheets. I cannot feel my hand, why can't I feel my hand? I slowly trace the bed spread to look at my left hand. It's gone. Where is my hand? I begin to have a panic attack and tears overflowed in my eyes. I throw my body off the bed only to land on the floor... That's when I realize my right leg ends at my knee. I scream until my lungs gave out. The panic that I feel is too great to understand. 

People are running to me, grabbing me, trying to pick me up. I just scream and fight them to get off. When I look up I notice I am in a hospital. I start screaming, "Where's Keaton? I want Keaton! Mom! I told you to make sure I didn't do anything stupid!" 

My dad walks up to me and says "Your mother is dead. She's been dead. Who is Keaton?"

"Dad, Don't act stupid! I know you know who Keaton is!!!!" I am a wreck hysterically crying as the nurses are picking me up and putting me on the bed. 

Behind the crowd of people I see Jesse and I start to scream, "I HATE YOU, I HATE YOU, YOU KILLED HIM DIDN'T YOU! I HATE YOU!!!" 

"Stop it! Stop yelling at your sister like that!!" my dad yells.

I stop freaking out and I think for a moment... Jesse? My sister? Since when? "That isn't my sister! Jesse isn't my sister! She killed Keaton, she killed my boyfriend!!" 

"Who's Jesse? That's your sister Marcy." My dad slowly answers my yell.

I look down at my right hand for my medical bracelet. I spin it around to wear it says my name. 

'Jaycie Copperfield'

"My name is Audry, my name is Audry. This is wrong, my name is Audry." I told the nurses. 

Marcy walks up to me and quietly says, "Keaton is just a boy from your favorite band... And that band just has Wesley and Keaton left in it. Do you not remember? Your room is full of their posters. You are not Audry, you just idolize Audry Hepburn. You've been in a coma for four years, Jaycie. I don't know how else to tell you..."

I made it all up. I imagined a life I wanted with everyone I wanted to be with me in it. The sister fights with Marcy fueled my anger for her in my thoughts and exaggerated the evil of each fight. 

I am Jaycie and according to my bracelet, I am 20 years old.