Falling for you (phan)

Chapter 6

Dans pov

I sit there thinking as I swing my legs back and forth. It was relaxing and the mist from the water felt nice. I remember coming here as a kid whenever my dad was worse then usual.

*flashback*

It's my 5th birthday and I had a few friends over. My mum made me a very good cake and there were balloons everywhere. My dad came home from work and must have had a bad day becomes he went straight to the cabinet that is child locked. The alcohol.

A few hours later me and my friends were on the couch watching tv and laughing. My dad stumbles into the room as he pulls me off the couch. My friends had ran to the corner to get out of the way. That is when I heard the smack. My friends ran out of the house as I layed there on the the ground holding my face.

"Happy Birthday Son!"

He yells as he smacks me again harder. My mum runs in to break it up and gets hit in the process. When it is all over my mum is holding me as I cry holding my face.

My friends never came back. They weren't aloud to come over in fear of my father. I was afraid of him too I could understand it.

*end of flashback*

I shutter at the memory and start to stand up to go home. I knew my father wouldn't be home so the coast was clear. I start walking down the road absorbed in my thoughts. It happened within a second I didn't even have enough time to move.

It hit me. I hear a mix of horns and screams. The light is blinding and I soon feel someone holding me and talking. My neck hurts and I must have hit my head but my leg was bent in the wrong direction.

More bright lights and loud noises suddenly make themselves known. I figured it was just the ambulance so I didn't try to move. It's not like I can. The whole ride it felt like it was getting harder to breathe and the stuck needle after needle into me.

They tried to ask questions but I couldn't answer I found that I don't have any control of my body. I try to get there attention by moving my hand, but nothing, my arm didn't even move. It was like I was aware of everything but helpless which I basically was.

I hear the beeping of the heart rate monitor and listen to the beeping getting slower. The paramedics all rush around me and start trying to help me. I feel them put the cold plates on my chest.

"Clear!"

Nothing

"Clear!"

Nothing but I hear a whisper.
"Come on boy you can do this you just have to fight it. If you live or die is up to you and I need you to make that choice. okay? Let's try this one more time."

"Clear!"

I hear the monitor start to beep again showing that my heart started again.

"I'm proud of you boy I knew you could do it." I wanted to thank her and I also wanted to cry because someone was proud of me. Dan Howell screw up of the decade. And she believed that I could do it. Someone believed in me.

I look at her to see she isn't that old looking to be about 20 tops. I took in her appearance so I would be able to find and thank her later.

Everyone starts moving around again this time moving me out of the ambulance and into the hospital. I feel people looking at me as the paramedics rush me to a room being careful not to hit me against the wall.

There I am rolled to a machine and then had more needles put into me and wires covered me. I feel someone take my phone out of my pocket and I look at her as if questioning what she was doing. It was the girl from before and she seems to know why I am looking at her and gives me the I information I ask for.

"I am just trying to get some information about you like your name and family I should inform. Oh and my name is Carrie. I am going to call your mum is that okay blink twice if it is."
I blink twice and she nods before putting my phone to her ear.

"Hello? Yes I am here at the A&E with your son- yes he's alive- we haven't done any test or anything we just got him here.- he got hit by a car near the bridge- I'm not sure why.- see you soon- bye."

"Your mum is very worried for you young man." I chuckle in my head that is something my mum would do. I think.

"So Dan Howell is it?" I blink twice hoping the same blink twice for yes and once for no still applies.

"I see you remember how to say yes and no." she chuckles.

"Well we are going to see how much damage is done okay?" I blink twice causing her to chuckle.

After what felt like hours all of the test were done and we were just now getting the results.

"So Dan you have a broken leg so we are going to put that in a cast in about an hour. And you also might have some memory loss and that is completely normal. It won't be everything but it will take a while to get back and maybe something's will trigger a memory. Our brain often tries to block out things we don't want to remember. Or maybe even things that we want it all just depends."

I start to panic what if I forget my family. Would they be mad? Before I can think anymore Carrie speaks up.

"I am going to give you some pain medication to help you and then you can see your mum after we are done." She did as she said and gave me some pain killers and I felt better already as I dosed off into a sleep.

When I woke up I started to panic. I couldn't move my leg. I don't know where I am and how I got here. I look down at my leg that is in a black cast that went almost all the way up my leg. Little bits and pieces were coming back as I remembered I got hit by a car and I broke my leg.

I hear crying and look over to where it was coming from seeing a woman that looked familiar.

"Hi Dan how are you feeling?"

"I-I'm g-good? W-who are you?"
The crying got worse and I understood why when she said the next sentence.

"I-I'm your m-mum D-Dan."