Laurenz Fellawn

7: Blurry memories

12:58 AM, Laurenz's hospital room, Christmas Day.

Sike woke up and saw Laurenz still unconscious, she sighed sadly and laid back on the chair while looking at him.
Wes and Dave walked in
"Good morning Lau-keeper!" Wes seemed happy, Dave was slightly blushing next to him.
Sike laughed a bit and waved at them.
"Morning! How did you two sleep?"
"It's us that have to ask that to you, we did fine" Dave smiled.
"I'm glad to hear that, my back hurts though but I can deal with that"
Wes sitted next to her and looked at Laurenz.
"Any sign?..."
"Nope..."
Dave sighed.
"We just saw John from far away walking towards here, what does he want?"
Wes growled angry and Sike glanced at him.
"Maybe you should go, come back in a while"
"And you?"
Sike was about so say that he already came last night but, after knowing Wes reaction, she decided not to do it.
"I'll stay here, we can't leave Laurenz alone with him"
Wes nodded and got up: "Let's go Dave"
They walked out and closed the door.

1:10 PM, the doctor walked in to check Laurenz's status. He was stable but still unconscious, Sike still had hope. Ten minutes after the doctor went out of the room, John walked in and saw Sike sitting there, he was wearing a bag.
"..." He waved at her sadly.
"You again, I was waiting"
John walked next to Laurenz, put his hand on Laurenz's arm and sighed, then he walked to Sike and gave her the green bag.
"What is this?"
John pulled out a paper that had already written before.
*Merry Christmas*
Sike looked up to him, he was actually smiling and turned around the paper.
*There's one for you and another one for Laurenz*
He wrote in another paper.
*I was hoping him to be awake by now...*
Sike got up and hugged him.
"I don't forgive you, but you seem to need one" Said referring to the hug.
John dropped the bag and hugged her from the waist, the door opened.
"JOHN?" Dave saw John hugging Sike.
He turned around while still grabbing Sike with his left arm and did a stop sign with the right one like saying *This is now what it seems*
Wes came in and was surprised of seeing John, he looked at him with anger and walked close.
"What are YOU doing here?"
John released Sike and stepped back.
"Wes, enough" said Sike with serious voice.
Wes glanced at her and moved back.
"Alright."
John grabbed his notebook and walked to the door, trying to not look at Dave. He wrote in a paper and gave it to him, then walked out while closing the door.
Dave read the paper with straight face and then did a sad expression.
"...wait John!" He opened the door and followed him.
Wes followed as well and saw Dave looking outside, John ran away like he did that night. Dave sat on a bank and told to Wes to go inside, he did so.

"So...how was the night?" Asked Sike to Wes.
"You already asked that"
"You know what I mean Wes"
"..."
"You two did it right?"
"...Did what?"
"Did what? Come on Wes!" she chuckled.
"Alright alright, we slept together and nothing else!" He blushed and sit behind Sike, she sat as well.
"What about John?" Sike seemed curious.
"He? Well I guess he deserves some of my hate after what he did." Wes sighed and looked at Laurenz, then said "Y'know?...he always protected me"
Sike smiled slightly.
"But you are the older brother right?"
Wes looked down and tried to remember something.
"..."
"Wes?"
"We were not only two before"
"W-what? You mean your parents?"
"No Sike, another of us, a third brother"
Sike was shocked. "H-how? I mean, where is he?"
"He dissapeared one day, Laurenz doesn't know anything about him and I discovered it a while ago."
"Discovered?"
"Yes, not a long ago, I went back to our parents' old house and I searched for something to remember them, I found a lot of documents in our father's office. Our mother was stabbed but not at the same time as my father, he was murdered moments after and the killer somehow dissapeared. I can't remember anything though. Then I found our photo album and I noticed that I wasn't the older one. His name isn't written anywhere, he just appears in blurry photos. I couldn't even see his face. Some photos seemed to be missing or even cut in a half, I guess he already was there before me. Also, I found that my father had another house and I went to take a look, it's pretty big and modern, after we claim that we are his sons, we can get it!"
Sike didn't know what to say and looked at Laurenz.
"So, uh, are you gonna tell him?"
"I think not, I don't want him to know he lost a brother too."
"Well you don't know if he's dead"
"Well he seemed to dissapear when I was 13 and Laurenz was 8 and never came back..."
"Hm...Oh so you're 26?"
"Yes I am, what did you think?"
"I don't know, 22?"
Wes chuckled and smiled.

Laurenz didn't feel any type of fatigue after walking that long.
"Geez, what is this place? Is this my mind? Damn I'm so empty"
He found a mobile phone on the floor, it looked like his.
"Oh, my phone!"
He unlocked it, the phone showed a weird date and hour.
*1 of January, 00:01*
"Hm, that's just after New year's eve..wait!"
He looked around quickly.
"IS THIS MY SUBCONSIOUS?"
He sat on the floor and noticed that he wore his casual clothes but they were all white.
"What are you trying to tell me brain? I realised I'm in some kind of coma but..." He looked up to the infinite ceiling.
"SAVE ME" he yelled as loud as he could.
An almost infinite echo, no answer. He laid on the floor and looked up.
"Help...wake me up please..."
Some shadows appeared behind him, he noticed them and got up.
They were two little kids, they played while running and one pushed the other to the floor and laughed at him, he didn't even helped him to get up and walked away. Laurenz approached to the fallen child.
"Are you okay?" He tried to grab him and as he did he could see his face.
"W-Wes?" The kid had some tears on his brownish eyes and hugged Laurenz. He looked at the other kid who was quite taller.
"That's...not me..."
Laurenz tried to walk to him but the little Wes grabbed his hoodie.
"Huh? You don't want me to go?"
Wes nodded.
"A-alright" Laurenz sat next to Wes and hugged him.
"It's okay lil Wes..."
Wes smiled and dissapeared as steam.
Laurenz looked in front of him, the other kid dissapeared as well.
"Hm...that was strange"

30th of December, 9 AM.

Sike was at home with Dave, Wes was in the hospital with Laurenz, he was still in coma. Dave and sike were having breakfast while watching the news.
"So, what are we going to do in New Year's eve?" Asked Dave while mumbling and eating cereals
"I don't know, I hope Laurenz wakes up soon, he's starting to worry me..." Sike was eating bread with anointed tomato.
Dave's phone rang.
"Hi Wes!" Answered happy, "Hmh, oh, well that's okay I think, we can take car of him here! Yeah bring him, we'll prepare the bed. Alright, see ya!" He locked the phone and looked at Sike.
"What was it?"
"Wes said that the hospital can't keep Laurenz any longer and he has to rest here at home with some supplements. So yeah, his bedroom will become a hospital room."
"Hm...okay then"