A Girl and a Whiteboard

Chapter Twenty-nine

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We played Heads Up for hours, actual hours it was so much fun and I'm pretty sure my acting skills improved. We were keeping score and Matt won so of course he would be bragging about this for the rest of his life.

The sun had come up, and we were exhausted but we had to do this for Oliver. I loved these guys, dearly, I really did but after being forced to spend hours with each other, I think we all hoped that our circumstances were different.

"Go see him."

"We all know you want to." Throughout the entire night, I avoided seeing him, it was hard walking in there and seeing him like that.

"Thanks guys."

I wasn't going to get my hopes up because there was no point in that.

He looked so peaceful, his face wasn't scrunched up like he did when he was in distress, there were no worry lines, he just looked like he was sleeping. I sat by the chair on his bed and enveloped my hand in his.

I squeezed his hand hoping he would squeeze it back but he didn't.

"Hey." I stupidly waited for a response.

"I hope you're dreaming right now, hopefully I'm a part of the dream."

I closed my eyes and imagined where we would be, "It's cold where we are and I'm wearing your jacket that you gave me. We're walking like we always do and all you can hear is our footsteps but there's smiles on our faces as we're swinging our interlocked hands back and forth." I shouldn't have said that, I think it just made it worse.

"Andy, please wake up for me. I'm being selfish but please just come back to me." I was on the brink of crying but I was angry that he was being taken from me. First my parents and now him? It wasn't fair. I couldn't lose the person who I wanted to be happy with or the person who made me feel like me again.

"I'm mad, not at you, but at life. But hey if you wake up, we can be mad together." Apparently I hadn't made a great offer because I got no response.

I kissed him on the cheek, "Bye sweetheart."

I closed the door and went back to Oliver's room.

"Emory what's wrong?"

"Nothing I just need some air." I needed to get out of here.

I got on the elevator and rushed through the doors of the hospital. I started running, I needed to calm down and I wanted to run away from my problems for a second. I don't know how long I ran for, but when I stopped I didn't know where I was. I looked around and didn't recognize anything.

I took out my phone and called Jace, "Where are you?"

"I don't know, I think I'm lost."

"Okay what do you see?"

"Umm there's houses and I'm at an intersection. I'm on Winden Avenue."

"I know where that's at, stay put."

I stayed where I was and backed away from the crosswalk. I sat down by a tree and waited. Trees all different like humans, they can be any shape, any color, and yet they're silent. I was a tree once. I love trees but I don't want to be one anymore.

I looked up when someone honked their horn and it was Jace. I got up and walked to his car.

"Thank you."