I woke up and looked over to the left side of my bed. My mom and dad were sitting in chairs asleep. I looked over to the right and saw a bunch of machines that I had no idea what they did. I opened my mouth to talk to wake my parents up and no sound came out. I reached up and felt a tube going down my mouth into my throat. I had been intubated. I found a remote on the side of my bed that controlled the position of it and pushed the big red emergency button four times. Five nurses rushed into the room accompanied by a doctor. They had crash carts with them probably assuming my parents hit the button. The first nurse saw that my eyes were open and jumped back and exclaimed, "Oh dear Jesus she is awake!"
My parents jumped awake and saw that I was awake and started crying. They grabbed my hands and squeezed them and told me how much they loved me and how they would never let me go. I started choking on the tube in my mouth so the nurses had my parents leave the room and give them space. The doctor told me he had to run a couple tests on me before they could let my parents back in. The first nurse grabbed my hand and said, "You are so brave. Julia, I have no idea how you are alive right now. Alright this is gonna hurt a little and then after your throat will be sore," she said as she pulled the tube out of my throat and out my mouth. I took a deep breath and said in a very hoarse voice, "Thank you so much. What do you need doctor?"
"Please leave the room," the doctor said to the nurses. He shut the blinds and started to remove the things that attached me to the machines. "How are you doing? Any pain?"
"I'm alright. My head hurts and my arm does as well. Other than that, it's just a dull pain all over."
"Okay I will alert the nurses of this and they will up your dose of morphine." He pulled the sheet off of my feet so he could see them and tapped them, "Can you feel that?" I nodded and he took a pen out of his pocket and the clipboard off the edge of my bed and started writing on it. He moved the pen from the bottom of my foot to my knee and asked if I could feel that. I said yes and he moved on to the next test.
"Can you move your toes? Excellent. Now, twist your ankles. Awesome great work Julia. Bend your knees and then lift your feet of the bed. Amazing," he said as he moved over to my left side. "Squeeze my hand. Alright thanks. Bend your arm. Lift your arm over your head. Nice job." He moved to my right side and said, "I know that this arm is in a cast and a sling but I would like to have you attempt to do a few things, okay."
"Okay."
He removed the sling and took the parts of my fingers sticking out from the cast in his hand, "squeeze. I know it hurts. Just do it."
I cried out in pain as I bent my fingers. My cast went above my elbow, about three inches away from my shoulder. He had me raise my arm and I did.
"Nice work. Do you have any questions for me?"
"What is going on? I remember passing out in the ER and then nothing else."
"We rushed you into surgery. You needed screws in your arm and your brain was bleeding. Your spleen was bleeding as well. We removed your spleen and did brain surgery. That was a month ago. You didn't wake up until now."
I looked over at him and asked for my parents. He let them in and we talked for awhile. Then the police entered.
"Hello, Ms. Andrews. We have a couple questions for you," the first officer said as he turned to my parents and asked that they left the room. My parents kissed my fore head and then left.
"Alright. Ms. Andrews. What happened in that house? Who is Hunter and Jonathan? Why was Hunter there? Why was Jonathan there?"
"Call me Julia. Hunter is the boy who lives next door to me. We had met the night before and we went on a date. We had an amazing time. Jonathan is my boyfriend of five years. Or, I guess was. The night that I went out with Hunter, my dad called the police cause he thought I was missing. Jonathan found out the police were there and booked a ticket to come the next morning. I called Jonathan in the morning and he told me he was coming. I texted Hunter to come over and he did. We talked for a while and I told him about Jonny and then we laid in my bed and fell asleep. Jonathan rang the door bell and I had Hunter hide in my closet. I went downstairs and told Jonny about the night before and he flipped and beat me up. I passed out and when I woke up I saw Hunter covered in my blood and Jonathan on the ground unconscious."
"Thank you. That matched hunters story. They were telling the truth. Currently, Jonny is sitting in jail for murder, kidnapping, attempted murder and threatening a police officer. We were waiting for you to wake up to go ahead with his trial. Now that you are awake, will you testify in the trial? Hunter is testifying and he is also waiting outside."
"I will testify. Will you leave now?"
"Thank you Ms. Andrews,"
"Julia."
"What?"
"Nothing."
"We will be in touch with you in the next couple days. Please do not go anywhere other than your house so that we can easily contact you. Have a nice day."
The police left my room and on their way out I heard one say to the other, "That little slut was asking for it."
The other replied, "yeah. It's her fault he killed our buddy. If she hadn't cheated, he would still be alive."
The officer who questioned me said, "Shut up you two. She did nothing. That guy is a psychopath who I want to kill. He killed a fellow officer with four kids and a wife. All four kids are under the age of five. She was a victim as well as our buddy is. Go back in there and apologize to ms. Andrews. Now. Or you are suspended for improper conduct."
They both came in and apologized. I told them to leave and then started crying. I guess it was all my fault.
