30 days of love

Medical Dismissal From School -- Day 9

I wake up the next day at 2:00PM with a pounding headache. Oh my gosh, did I really get hit by a car? I look myself down my body, concluding that I am indeed alright.  I should probably go downstairs and get my brunch. I need to go to school. I walk downstairs, slowly, and I even step on the last two stairs for the first time in two years.

"Hey mom, how you doing?"

She jumps up from the table and quickly runs over to me. "Honey, you shouldn't be up!"

"I'm okay, I think I'm going to go over-  

"No." She picks me up and sits me in a chair. "You aren't going anywhere today. Your principal told me that you are allowed to skip school today, even though you have already missed half of the day."

"Okay, can Tom come over?" I get up out of the chair and plop down on the couch. 

"Sure, just don't over-exert yourself" She turns and grabs her coffee cup. "I'm going to go to work, I'll be back at 5:30 tonight."

"Okay!" I grab my phone from the kitchen table and  text Tom.

Hey, how are you?

I'm good. Are you doing okay?

Yeah, just sitting in the living room. You wanna come over?

Stay on the couch. I'm coming over.

Okay

Two minutes later, Tom's at my house. I open  the door to find myself in his warm embrace.

"Are you okay? I've been so worried about you."

"I'm fine." I pause "I just don't know why Julie hates me now."  Suddenly, I start feeling really dizzy and lightheaded as my chest starts hurting. I go and lay down on the couch.

"Marie, are you okay?"

"Yeah I'm fine, my chest just hurts and I'm a bit lightheaded." I look up at him as everything goes black.

I find out I can't open my eyes as I slowly wake up.

Tom, are you there?

She's talking, get her mom!! We need to keep her from going back into her coma!

Marie? Omg my love, you look terrible. Please come back to me, I'm sorry.

As everything goes silent once again I feel the warm touch of someone's lips on mine before I wake up again.

"Marie? Are you okay?" I wake up to find Tom hovering over me. "Marie?"

"I'm okay, I'm okay." I sit up. "What happened? I had the weirdest dream."

"Well, you first lied on the couch and then you passed out for about 5 minutes, in which time I brought you back to your room." He pauses. "Are you sure you're okay?"

"Yeah, I just keep having dreams where I can't do anything but listen." I pause, deciding whether or not to go into more detail. "It's so weird."

"Huh." He looks off into space. "That is strange. Wanna watch a movie to get your mind off of it?"

"Sure!"

We go back out to the couch and I curl up next to him. We watch a scary movie for the next 3 hours.

"Well, I hate to say it, but I think I need to go." He gets up. "See you tomorrow at school."

"Alright."  I pause. "Just come tomorrow."

He leaves and I go to bed early to try to get some sleep and get rid of my headache.

As I fall asleep, I start to hear the beep of a monitor.

I slowly wake up and open my eyes to see the ceiling of a place I don't recognize. I try to sit up only to be pushed back down by someone.

I hear Julie's sweet voice as she pushes me back down. "Don't get up, I'll call the nurse." As she backs away, everything slowly goes black once again as I fade into unconsciousness.