Forever and Always - BoyxBoy -Complete-

19

Jake

"Jake? Jake! Jake! Daniel's awake! Come on!"

Echoes.

Everything I hear are echoes. It's like strumming the guitar strings endlessly in a slow manner, a crying symphony airing my surroundings.

It feels like every word they say I hear from them slows down, like they're made into slow motion movie, echoing and prolonging everything that comes out from their mouths. My world slowly captures and digests all the thoughts that rush through me, all their voices pierces into my ears. The ringing yell continues to stun me. Daniel? He's awake? I desperately need to move now, but I'm stumped by her abrupt call. No, I still can't move my body away. It's like my feet are glued to the ground, gravity pulling me down while the pressure on my head keeps on pushing me. 

"Jake, snap out! Let's go check Daniel now!" Paul's voice doesn't seem to have any effect neither. I became powerless, unable to do anything even to startle my whole being. I've been waiting for this moment, but, it is too sudden, so sooner that I thought it would be. I should be happy now. There is no any other reason for me to mourn about it. Their reactions can't move my body as I stood still by the cold wall beside me. It's like unfathomable, too much for my head to jot down on a piece of paper and re-write their hopes. There's too much information coming go and by, but I can't handle it. It's too much for my mind to process every part of it.

It's like I am stuck in dream land. It's got that sense of being unreal, a hollow one, lying to me as they say 'Daniel's awake.' Their footsteps trot to my side, walking towards the nearest nurse's station. Everyone's looking for a doctor that would help them. But me, it's still a blur. I'm stunned. I've becoming so numb, almost nothing to touch, deprived of my power to move on my own will.

All I have in me now is a mixture of emotion, a concoction of happiness, of excitement, of fear, of shock, and of astonishment. A drug I consumed minutes before this had all happened in an instantaneous flash of blinding light, illuminating from the small door opening hiding behind the brick walls. 

"Jake! I'm going to drag you inside now!" Paul gradually brought me closer towards the room, holding both sides of my shoulder from my back and started pushing me from behind. With all his might, he finally made me shoved me from where I'm standing, and I started to fall off with my face first on the floor and arms surprisingly supported me for balance. Without any realization at all, tears started to drip down my face, down to the tip of my nose, building up before falling down. My body reacted on its own, that my soul is a slave of my mind.

He pulled me back up to my feet and yanked me in. I was still kind of hesitant to move, and once felt my resistance; he pulled me hard once more before slamming my body into the door. "Jake, if you don't get out of your fantasy, it won't soon do any good. Get in now, I'll get Zoey to find a doctor now and I'll make contact with his mom." Sitting me down the side of his bed, Daniel was still squirming on his bed. His eyes fluttered at the bright light flaring through the soft silk curtains on the window. "Nggghnnnnn.... Hnnnnn..."

I couldn't bring myself together to take care of him now. I know, I should be really happy at this moment, but I'm not. Finally, I can hear his voice, I can once again see his cerulean eyes that were seeing pitch black for days, I can hold his hands with his consent once more. There will be neither obstacles nor restrains that will stop me from doing this. Yet, all I did was to watch him, staring at him indefinitely, felt like I'm already defeated.

Soon, Liam and Kean came back inside the room and went on the other side and waited for the doctor to come in a nick of time when Daniel gently opened his eyes. They immediately rushed to him and checked that there is to be done. "Hnnn... W-where..... W-what i-is..." And then I got up, pushed them out of my way and made it beside him, holding his hand up with both mine and kissing them. "Dan it's me, Jake."

Finally, I've moved. A ridiculous thought. His head started to move sideways as if looking for that voice talking to him. I held on to his cheek and moved his head and paused it as our faces met. "Daniel, I'm here. It's Jake." Brushing off away his long blonde hair covering his eyes, he then let his eyes scan me, trying to recognize my features and then they grew wide, as if he saw a ghost in front of him before his body jolted back. "W-w-who are you?" Then he hardly tilted his head and began to examine the people around him. "W-who are y-you? I- I don't k-know all of you!"

"Daniel, its Jake, your boyfriend." I pulled him in and hugged him tight, sobbing on his shoulders. He shook his body and loosened my embrace and pushed me away. "G-go away from m-me! I don't know you!"

"Daniel plea-"

"Stop calling me that!" He held on to his head, bowing down to his knees and then shrieks. I withdrew, stepping backwards and then leaned on the wall. It can't be. He's got... amnesia? It's impossible.

"Jake, he has." Paul, now standing beside me, stated, like he can read the thoughts in my mind. "I'm so sorry..." He added.