Reaching for Eliet

Our Final Words: "I Do" (Bonus Chapter)

When I realized that I could feel him anymore I asked out loud if I could open my eyes but no one responded. I opened my eyes and I didn’t see him. I turned around and I still didn’t see him. I started to cry.

“Where are you Eliet? We have to get married remember?” I mumbled with tears falling down to the floor. I fall to my knees and start to cry as people pass by.

“Are you ok ma’am?” a stranger said. A sharp pain pierced my head and I covered my ears with my hands as I screamed. Everything looked like it was shaking. What is going on? Everything seemed to be shaking and I kept screaming.

When I screamed louder everything turned white. I observed the piercing bright light in the ceiling and wondered where I was.

“Where am I?”

“Starla your awake!” I heard my mom and dad’s voice say.

“Where am I?”

“You’re in the hospital. You just woke up from a coma.”

I lay up from my bed quickly.  “What?” I say with a confused look on my face. My parents rushed to me as they tried to lay me down again.

“Sweetie sit down you might collapse. Your body might not handle getting up yet. “My mom says’.

“You’ve been in a coma for four years. Starla stay still while we get the doctor.” I moved them aside and stood up. I had only one thought in my mind, where is Eliet? I started to pace around the room and I started to scream. “Where’s Eliet? Where is he? I can’t do this anymore. What game is this?”

“Starla what are you talking about?” My father said.

“I lost my memory and Eliet died! Don’t you remember? What kind of people are you?”

“Starla we don’t know what you mean. You’re getting everything confused. Eliet is fine; you were the one who got hurt.” My mother shouted.

I looked at her and cried. Could it be true? Could he be alive?

“Are you lying?” I asked.

“Honey Eliet is at home taking care of your young brother.”

“I have a brother?”

“Yes he was born while you were still in a coma. You probably imagined Eliet was dead when he was talking to us about faking his death to protect you”

“I’m so confused”  The doctor walks in and smiles.

“I see she’s awake. Eliet will be pleased.”

“Where is he?”

“Let me cheek if you’re ok and then you can see him.”

“Honey I’ll call Eliet to come with your brother and explain if that makes you feel better.”

“Yes!” I quickly answered. The doctor flashed a bright light on my eyes and he proceeded with other weird procedures. Does he know Eliet? He started to ask simple questions like what I remember.  After the questioning he started to write down something.

“Is she able to go home doctor?” asked my mom.

“Yes but she will have to come back later on today to have a scanning of the brain.”

“All right what time should we come back?”

“6:40”

I look at the time and read it out loud “4:57pm”

My mom passes me some clothes and when everyone went outside I changed faster than I ever changed before. I walked out of the room and I couldn’t wait to see Eliet. I started to run through the hallways trying not to run into the patients and doctors.