The Universe Hates Me

Chapter 2

After that "one" night at the hospital the doctors kept extending my stay over and over again. In total I stayed at the hospital for two months and half, two of which I was unconscious.

When I finally got home on a bright sunny Sunday afternoon, all my aunts, Uncles, Cousins and a few kids from "Lily's gang" (who gave me death stares).

When I walked into the kitchen Tommy (my fifteen year old brother) sat slumped on a chair and looked like he had just lost an argument with the guy that was sitting beside him in the kitchen that I didn't recognise. I could tell that they had stopped talking as soon as I walked in. You could feel the awkwardness in the air. Tommy was the first to recover from the shock he quickly ran towards me as if he were going to hug me with his arms outstretched, but last second he closed his arms, moved sideways and ran out of the room, which didn't work for him as he ran straight into lily who just pushed him back inside the kitchen, her gang followed her inside and closed the door after them.

Lily approached me her eyes staring at me like lasers burning through my skull; you could feel the tension in the room. "You will listen to I say if you don't want to go back to the hospital" Lily whispered at me in a menacing tone. But only the people in the room could hear her, "and everyone else that is in this room, well except for tweedle Dee and tweedle Dum" she said pointing at Tommy and they guy that was talking with him.

"your first task" she continued " will be to tell our parents that it was your fault that you went to the hospital and you just decided to blame us for fun or you can make up any other cover story to get us out of our punishments, here is a list" she handed me a fat bundle of pages "in here there is all of our punishments and our parents cell phone numbers and home phone numbers" then she turned to my brother and his friend "if you tell anyone about this I will come for you" and with that she spun on her heel and left the room with her gang at her heels.

I plopped myself down on a kitchen chair deep in thought, what should I do? Listen to Lily's gang after all they've done to me? Or should I risk getting sent back to the hospital?

I was so deep in thought I didn't notice Tommy leaving me and his friend alone in the kitchen. His friend had sat down on the chair beside me and I could tell that he was deep in thought. Who is he? I wondered trying to recall in my memory if I know him from somewhere. How come has never been here before how did Tommy's friends change so much while I was gone?

Tommy's friend noticed me staring at him and looked up at me catching my gaze. I saw a spark of fright creep into his eyes but it was gone just as fast as it came. "Hey I'm Jeremy I'm going to be in Tommy's class this year so I thought that I could get to know him. Last year I was in 9b" he explained.

I wanted to say something back but he started to look familiar.

No it can't be I thought.

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