Friendship on the line

Chapter 60

Chapter 60

*Nathan’s POV*

I opened my eyes slowly and saw people rush around me. I spoke but I couldn’t recall what I was saying but I soon felt calm again after a while. When I regained consciousness for the second time I saw a girl with blonde hair sitting next to me holding my hand. I jolted away “Nathan, it’s me. Kerry.” The girl said. I just looked at her with a puzzled expression on my face. I didn’t answer her but her voice sounded familiar. Like the girl in my dreams? Telling me stories that also seemed familiar. She looked sad and worried. I then looked up to see a few guys standing round me. I was lying down in a bed in what I think was a hospital. But why? “We are going out now Kerry. Just to have a few celebratory drinks. We will leave you to it” one of the guys said before they left. “Who are you?” I asked this girl called Kerry. “I remember you from my dreams but I didn’t know you were real” I told her. She half laughed and smiled “So you could hear me? Nathan, I am your girlfriend.” She told me. She then let go of my hand and pulled something from around her neck. It was a little necklace. A necklace I vividly remember buying “Nathan, you bought this for me for our first date together.” She explained. I nodded slightly. “Do you believe me?” she asked “kind of. Everything is such a blur. What happened? Where am I?” I asked her. She explained that I was assaulted by this guy called Conor and that when he hit me he fell and hit my head. I apparently have been in a comatose state for 3 weeks and I am in hospital. “Doctors have done brain scans and everything. You have lost some of your memory but they told me that whilst you were unconscious I should speak to you. That is why you can remember me. From your dreams” she explained. She kissed my lips. And then I remembered that the kiss felt exactly the same as before. She was my girlfriend. But I just need to remember how we met. Just as she finished kissing me a female doctor walked in. “Hello there miss Thorpe. Doctor Smokes the male doctor who was here before has gone home and I am filling in for him. I am Doctor Benett” she said and shook Kerry’ hand. “I just need to ask your boyfriend a few questions. Very simple questions to start off his process of memory recognition. Has he remembered or recalled anything to you?” she asks Kerry. “Kind of. He said he kind of remembers me being his girlfriend. I think the talking to him worked” she told the doctor. Thank you Miss Thorpe. You may stay here but please do not give him the answers. It is important we understand how up to date his memory is” she told her. Then this female doctor looked at me “Hello there. How are you feeling?” she asked me. I kind of smiled “my head hurts” I tell her. She nods her head as if to say she understood. “Can you tell me you’re Name?” she asked me. This was easy “Nathan.. Nathan Sykes” she jotted notes on her clip board “Okay and how old are you Nathan?” she continued to question me “I am 18 years old” she nods “where are you?” “In hospital” I replied “yes but what is the name of the hospital” okay, that questioned stumped me. “I.. I don’t know…” she nodded and wrote down more things on her clip bored. “And last question for now Nathan. What is the name of the college you go to?” I thought hard and tried to think hard. I looked over at Kerry. I saw a tear roll down her cheek. “No helping please Miss Thorpe” the doctor said. She nodded her head and looked away from me. I looked back up to the doctor and shrugged. “I don’t know” I tell her. She nods and writes down stuff again. “Am… am I going to remember?” I ask the doctor. She sighed “in time Nathan you will but it is going to be hard for you” the doctor told me. She then turned to Kerry. “I think it is a good idea if we left him to sleep for a while.” She told her. Kerry nodded and kissed me on the cheek “I will see you soon yeah?” I nodded slightly and she left. Before the female doctor left she filled up a syringe “just going to give you some morphine to help ease the pain then I will leave you to get some rest” she told me. After the injection she left. My eyelids started to feel heavy and soon enough I was asleep with a whole load of what I can only describe as jigsaw pieces of memory floating around my head just not wanting to fit together….

*Kerry’s POV*

I left Nathan room and sat outside in the waiting area. The doctor came out and explained to me that Nathan has suffered minor memory loss which isn’t bad but it also isn’t good. She then explained that the memories should come back but it will take time. He just needed a lot of rest as well as encouragement from friends and family. I nodded and with that the doctor went away. I sat for a while drinking a flat white coffee when my phone rang. It was Tia. I went outside. “Hello” I started the conversation. “Hi Kerry. Er how is Nathan?” she asked me. She had been crying. “He is awake but has minor memory loss. Doctors say they are working on his memory recognition process.. Tia. Are you ok?” I asked her “well, er not really but um you will be” she told me “what’s up?” I said “It’s Conor. He has been arrested” she told me. My face lit up and I smiled from ear to ear “That’s brilliant!” I said. And then I realised something. How did she know? I would have been phoned first? By the police not Tia…… She was with him!!! “Tia! Have you been with Conor?!” I shouted “Y..yes” she said “Tia how could you!! You lied to me!!” I shouted at her “Lied to you! I had to! He is my boyfriend Kerry! I love him and I didn’t want to see him get sent down!” she shouted back at me “BUT HE ASSAULTED NATHAN!!!” I screeched at her “SO! Conor had punched Nathan before! He had punched back!! It has happened before Kerry!! There was no need for you to call the police!” she shouts back at me. I shook my head and laughed “If you haven’t realised Tia NATHAN HAS BEEN IN A COMA FOR THE PASSED 3 FUCKING WEEKS! HE COULD OF ENDED UP DYING! JUST WHAT PART OF THAT DOESN’T SCREAM CALL THE COPS TO YOU!” I bellowed at her. We were both crying and shouting “I LOVE CONOR AND NOW HE HAS BEEN TAKEN AWAY FROM ME AND AMELIE!” she shouted. “Well! You know what else is going to be taken away from you now?!” I questioned her. Silence “Your friends. Me Tom Ashley Andrea Becca Siva George Anna. Everyone! They are going to find out about this.” I told her “Kerry… Yo….You wouldn’t” she pleaded “I am sorry Tia. You have pushed me passed breaking point. I don’t want to see you ever again. I don’t want you to come to the hospital anymore and you are definitely not seeing Nathan.” I tell her. She started to cry harder “goodbye Tia. Enjoy the rest of your life….” I tell her and with that I hung up and broke down in tears.