My Sunshine

I Will Be Here.

Wait, am I dreaming? Evan can't really love me! We've only been talking a couple months.

The halls became empty. Just me and Evan. The people literally just faded away! Yep, that doesn't happen in real life. I'm dreaming. I hear faint foot steps slowly fading.

"Evan, where are you going!? Don't leave me alone! You just said you loved me and now you're leaving me!"

"Faith, I promise I will be there for you when you wake up. Just wake up. Please. Just wake up Faith. I need you to wake up!"

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"Faith, I know I haven't really been there for you in the few months that we've known each other, but I promise I will be there for you when you wake up. I may live in Missouri, but we can talk every day through Twitter. Just wake up. Please. Just wake up Faith. I need you to wake up! We can work it out."

I look back at Sunny. Tears streaming down her face as she watches me beg her daughter to wake up. Seeing Faith's mom in this state makes my heart wrench. I get up from my kneeling position by Faith's bedside. Walking to Sunny, she meets me half way and grabs me in her warm embrace. Me being six foot two, and her being five foot three, her head was more on my stomach then my chest. This makes me wonder what it would be like to hug Faith, for she is five foot eight. Faith's head would be right at my heart. She would hear my heart beat, beat, beating. The one thing she wouldn't know is that it only beats for her.

I look down at Sunny, realizing how much she looks like her daughter.

"You know how much you look like Faith right?"

"Psh, you should see what Faith looks like next to her dad! I'm sure they would be almost identical! Oh, I wish I could see how she would be with her dad here. He died when she was one year and two days old. The whole month of December is just a mess with our family! Faith's attempt was on the 6th, her birthday on the 9th, her dad died on the 11th, we buried her dad the day after Christmas! And her AGT audition was supposed to be on the 5th this year.

Here she is, fighting for her life, a month before her audition. The doctor says there's no way she will talk again, or even that her vital organs work. At least we know her heart is still beating. I bet it hurts. I'm surprised she's even still breathing. Honestly, now that I think about it, they probably should have pulled the plug a couple days ago. They said the bleach is still eating at her stomach, so they're trying to get it all out by today with those tubes. If they can't, her stomach lining will be gone. They haven't told me what would happen if that happened yet though. At this point, we're just hoping for the best."

"There's one thing I still don't understand, Sunny."

"What's that Sunshine?"

Faith always calls me Sunshine... "why did you call me here?"

"You kept her going. I was hoping you could wake her up by singing to her. She absolutely loves your voice. She told me it 'gives her life.'"