Knight in Sneakers

Chapter 70 'Finally.'

Entry 62

14th November, 2016.
Monday
7:01 a.m

Aaron Demarcus Cortez

When I opened my eyes, I was welcomed with immediate pain all over my body and it increased mainly in my chest. I couldn't move my hands or my legs--in fact I don't think I could move any part of my body as of yet. Sam was the only one in the room when I got up, he was playing on his ipad when I tried getting his attention. He looked up casually but his widened the second he saw me awake. He smiled brightly at me before running upto hug my sleeping body.

"Woah there. Careful, bud." I laughed as I winced softly as pain increased because of the hug but I couldn't help but feel a lot more better despite the pain. I ruffled his hair and asked him to hand me the bottle of water. I noticed his eyes had gotten glassy and I looked at him in confusion.

"Why are you crying?"

"I am not crying. Something went in my eye."

"Akright, Sam. Why are you crying?" And he erupted into tears before he hugged me again.

"I thought I lost you. All of us did." He sobbed softly bringing tears to my eyes too. I wanted to speak but I knew my voice would crack and betray me. I waited until I could speak again and continued rubbing his back.

"It's going to take more than a bullet to take me away from you, okay? I'm alright now."

"Bullet? Mum told us that it was a mild heart attack-"

"Ah, yeah it was. The bullet thing was just an analogy. A weird one at that." I immediately tried covering up my previous slip but soon Sam's face which was filled with confusion turned into amusement. He laughed as he wagged his finger at me.

"Got you!"

"Okay get out of here, you rascal. Go call the nurse." And after that everyone that I knew existed and was close to me, visited me. My entire family, father's side and mom's side. All my cousins and friends. Thank god Dan and Jade didn't leave my side the entire time or else I don't how I would have managed it without my kind of humour around me. Even my aunts from Germany visited me!

Everybody except her. I asked my mom about Clarke but she told me she saw her last in the hospital on the night I was admitted and she ultimately never came back. I asked my friends and they told me her number wasn't reachable and none had a clue to where she was. I remember her asking me to stay awake that night. I remember her kiss, I remember her 'i love you' and I remember every bit of that night and I don't think we had any reason to ignore each other. To avoid.

Then why wasn't she here!

Knowing Clarke, she probably blamed herself with what happened to me but I knew she wouldn't have left me despite that. She would have stayed. She would have cried like Sam when I woke up. She would apologise. And then she would kiss me. But now she wasn't here to even know if I was fine or not. And I'm so scared. I'm so scared for her.

Is she alright? Is she hurt? Is she pissed? Is she busy? Is something troubling her? Is someone troubling her? What happened to Ethan Stone? What happened to Clarke? Or the worst possible question invaded my mind which made my body freeze with fear as a chill ran down my spine.

Is she still alive?

I could hardly think or dwell more on that particular question because I experienced terrible migraines every time I started to worry or think a lot. Especially with these medications and pain killers, it was surprising I was even awake and thinking. I just sleep a lot now.