And Then I Woke Up

Untitled Part 1

Chapter 1The alarm was blaring and I jumped out of bed. It was 5:30 a.m. I went out to the kitchen and ate a piece of toast that Maya made for me then I went back to my room and grabbed my jeans and lucky green shirt and slid them on. I chose my lucky green shirt because basketball tryouts are today! And I want to make the team. I snatched my backpack and flung it on my back slid on my gym shoes and ran out the door shouting to Maya that she was going to be late for school if she come on. She caught up with me then her friends came up and she went with them. But that is okay because a tall lanky guy with brown hair and hazel eyes was standing a house down waiting on me. Aiden, my best friend. Aiden shouts "hurry up you bum Brie is waiting for us a block down!" I just laughed and said to him, ready for tryouts? Aiden is the tallest guy in our school, which means he makes a good basketball player. And Aiden said exactly what I thought he would being the way he is, "am I ready? I was born ready!" Then we start walking down the road towards the big house where all of my friends and I meet up when we are going to school or just want to hang out. The house is a big white house that is run down and rotting. No one has lived in the house for as long as I have been alive. We always go in the house when we just want to hang out. I think the house is really cool but Morgan says its creepy. Last time we were in the house she said she swore she heard someone walking up stairs, no one was up there. By the time we get to the old house Brie, Harry, Asia, Adam, Taniqua, Marcus, Amy, Morgan, and Alexander are already waiting for us. As soon as Aiden and I get to the house Marcus says "are you guys ready for tryouts?" But not all of us are trying out for basketball, you see now Brie is a basketball player, so is Aiden, Marcus, Amy, Morgan , and I of course. But Taniqua plays football, adam plays soccer, Harry is a male cheerleader and Asia and Alexander don't play sports. So when Marcus brought up basketball he was only talking to some of us. (Which made things awkward.) So when Marcus said that everyone was so quiet so me being me I tried to break the ice, soooo I said you know it. I'm going to me like Jordan out there slam dunk! Then it happened I was goofing off and I jumped in the air acting like I was blocking a shot and while I was going back down my foot rolled off the side of the sidewalk and snapped! Aiden and Marcus automatically told someone to call the emergency truck. Brie called the truck and in what seemed like 20 minutes the truck was there and I was being lifted into the back. The driver turned the sirens on and I waved bye to my friends as I was rushed away and they all stood there looking helpless, as if they had no idea what to do without me. I was sitting there in an agonizing pain and when i looked down at my ankle I could tell it wasn't right because The bone was pushing up against the skin almost going to pop out! And then I noticed all the purple and blue color shades. It reminded me of my sisters makeup palut with multiple shades of one color but multiple colors that she put above her eyes. The man who was in the back with me was mumbling something. I couldn't catch everything he was saying, just some words like, holy shit, going to puke, and ewe. That when I knew it looked worse than I thought. We were in the emergency truck for what seemed like forever when the truck finally jerked to a stop and the guy I was in the back with opened the door quickly and threw up everywhere. It was gross! I didn't know what was going to happen. But as soon as the doors both came open it was all very blurry and two big men came and lifted me out of the gurney into another one outside of the truck and I was wheeled into the hospital and my parents were there, my mom in a business suit and my dad in shorts and a Bengals shirt. I figured my mom just came from her meeting she had today with the president, she is the secretary of congress! And my dad, he is a mechanic, he works on cars, helicopters, planes, and a lot of trains that run out of district 4 to get exotic food. As soon as I got into the room they were taking me I knew what was going on... Surgery... I was getting prepped to go under when my mom walked in crying. She said to me, "I love you Tobias, I will have a cake, yellow with chocolate frosting your favorite waiting on you when you come home. I love you sweetheart." I was speechless and barely could say anything except I love you to mom. Then the nurse came in, she was a tall blond with long curlyish hair. She has big green eyes and red lips, like the red in a rainbow. Then she said, "are you ready sweetie?" Then my mom kissed my forehead and squeezed my hand then said, "remember, the cake." Then she left to go sit out in the main lobby, waiting-waiting-waiting. I was waiting on the nurse to push me out of the door but instead I looked over and she had a long snake like tube in her hand with a shiny needle on one end and a bag full of the clear liquid at the other. She said "are you ready to go under?" My response was, will I ever be? She giggled and smiling, walked to my side and started to feel for my main vain the when she found it she took the needle and stuck it in and put some tape on it so it would stay. It took about 8 minutes until my body realized what was happening. Then my vision got really blurry and my breathing evened out. I was half asleep when the doctor came in and took my pulse and temperature to make sure they didn't put me under for nothing. If my pulse was too low or too high I wasn't aloud to go into surgery for safety reasons. But I guess I was all good because the next thing I knew I was being reeled through the hallway into a fully white room. Then I thought what if... I thought what if I can't come back? What will my mom do, what will me dad do? What will Marcus, Aiden, Brie, Morgan, and everyone else do? What will I do? I know it is dumb to ask myself but what happens if you don't come back from surgery? Where does your body go? I heard stories about people being buried in the ground after they died, but that was a long time ago... So what will happen to me will I be burnt like Grandpapa was? Or will I be buried like they buried the people a long time ago? Well I will just not think about that. I will think about how better I will be when I get back all healthy and ready to go play basketball again. I was given the drug by the lady with the long blonde hair with the red lips and the big green eyes. I don't know her name and most likely won't ever, but as she gave it to me I sat there mesmerizing the bond structure of her face and how perfect it looked like the bone structure in Heathers face. Then I was out.It was very cold in the room and then right before I was out completely I looked over to my left and saw an older man with glasses on and a blue dress with a funny looking hat and white gloves,. I am guessing that is my doctor. My foot was being dipped into warm water and cleaned so it wouldn't get infected then they covered my body up with a blue thin paper thing and I was ready! Then I was out. As I was in the middle of the surgery I was feeling pain and looked up and saw my leg being cut open and looked at and passed back out but I guess someone saw me wake back up because I was given a little more of the clear liquid to keep me the way I was. I didn't wake up again throughout the surgery but I did dream. I dreamt of my life, how it would be changing after all this. I couldn't try out for basketball, so I guess I wasn't dreaming I was having a nightmare. If I couldn't tryout for basketball the college scouts wouldn't see me. Then if the scouts couldn't see me play then I had no chance of getting into Alabama. I have wanted to go there since I was little. The only way I would of been noticed was if I was playing basketball and if I can't tryout it's simple I don't play. They only other way to get in was IF they came to any of the high school games and they usually don't do that because that means making two trips they don't want to do all the way out here to my district. And they come from district 17. That isn't even on the ground. District 17 is for the colleges, doctors, biologists, district representatives, and anyone else who takes college courses. They can live there with their spouse as long as he or she is a college graduate as well but if you can't find anyone to be your spouse there you are sent to the ground because in our would you have to have a spouse. If you do not get a spouse by the age of 30 you are taken to district 20 where they "get rid" of the "unloved." I know what happens to them, they are taken to hell. They are "unloved" so they are "useless"  in the eyes of president Poe. He only has us all still living so he can get more of us. If you do not reproduce by the age of 30 as well you and your spouse are "gotten rid of." My father is a mechanic so he knows where the jet trains lead to. We talk a lot about jet trains, that is what my father specializes in. So what happens with the "getting rid of" is they take the "unloved" 30+ year olds, if your unborn child dies then you go as well, you get on a jet train and they drive for 3 days to the 20th and final district, it is underground so the train takes a while to get there and then you get off and never back on. I am scared I will never find my love all my friends have. Brie and Aiden, Marcus and Amy, Harry and Asia, Adam and Taniqua, and I am almost 100% positive Alexander and Morgan will get married as well. Then I am the unloved. I will no longer be with my friends when I turn 30. And the idea of this terrifies me. The thought of what if I, Tobias Casey Rwend never gets married. What if I am the one who doesn't find my love? Now my friends will be married but not me.