Gym Class Love [Book 1]

We Sail On Borrowed Time

Mr. Young's P.O.V

I walked into the light, and I could hear a distant beeping noise. There was a sort of finality to that noise that caused a chill to run down my spine. I looked back to the cold, empty darkness then into the light again. That's when I saw her. She had a sad smile on her face and opened her mouth to speak to me.

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"I hope you're happy." the woman stated with a quiet sad smile. "What?" I asked with a confused tone apparent in my question. "You honestly don't know me?" She looked at me surprised. I shook my head slowly, while studying her. "My name is Talia Ferguson." she replied. Bam. It hit me, quite literally in fact. Visions of a car crash began to play in my head. I turned back to the short, tan, obviously foreign woman in front of me. "You're the lady I collided with. If you're here, that means..." I swallowed hard remembering she had a child. Her brown eyes softened as she regarded my shaking figure. "I'm not dead. I'm merely in a coma. The same as you. However, Emma..." the woman had a sad look cross her features. "Oh god. No. No. No. I didn't.... it's all my fault." I fell to my knees. I felt as if I were dying, which I'm pretty sure I was. "Emma is the reason I'm here." Talia said with her signature sad smile playing on her lips. I looked up at her. "What do you mean?" I asked choking back my tears. Talia walked forward and sat next to me. "Emma's spirit is in here..." she motioned around at the white light, "Emma sort of came to me and told me that she felt you about to cross over and that I had to stop you." Talia was out right beaming now, which I found odd because she lost her child. "Why did Emma want to save me? I'm the reason she died!" my words came out harsher than I meant but Talia just laughed. "Emma always loved people, even you. You have someone that loves you waiting on you to wake up and she felt it was her duty to help you be happy. That was the type of girl she was. Only 9 years old and already so selfless." Talia sounded proud as she told me about Emma. I was about to ask her more but sensing this she shook her head no and pushed me backwards out of the light. "You stay away from this light, do you hear me? Emma saved you now don't take it for granted!" Talia yelled. "I-I won't. Talia! Emma sounds like a very beautiful girl with a beautiful soul and I'm sorry!" I yelled as she left. "Don't worry. I may never be able to be your friend, but I'm not mad at you and there's a certain young man that really wants you to wake up. Besides, do our loved ones ever really leave us?" she said as she turned her back and walked in the opposite direction. I wanted to call out for her to stay so we could keep each other company, but I knew that would be too much to ask. I was again alone with nothing but the dark and my thoughts. Emma. She had asked her mom to save me, even though I was the one who had killed her. A young man waiting for me to wake up? Chris. It had to be him, I still couldn't quite place the face of the man named Chris, but I knew who he was. However, knowing the good things like the love I felt for him also brought back the bad like the guilt and pain. If he was sitting in my room, waiting for me to wake up,that means he's been the voice all along! Why was he crying earlier and arguing with someone? Was that Richard? God, even when i was in a fucking coma I still managed to fuck things up and make him cry. Speaking of crying, I could now here a loud sobbing and my name being yelled over and over. My heart fluttered at the sour of his voice. "Alright Emma, I'm going to live the best life I can for you." I said to no one in particular, but I swear I heard someone cheer happily. I willed my body to breathe, and with enough effort I heard the heart monitor take off with its slow steady beeps. "That's impossible, he was legally gone for 7 minutes!" exclaimed a voice which I assumed was a doctor. I heard murmurs of astonishment and what sounded like a sob of relief. "We did it Emma." I said with a sleepiness to my voice. I closed my eyes and let the darkness pull me under.

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Then just as the doctor was hauling me to my feet, a miracle happened. I heard the beeping of a heart monitor.

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AN-This chapter took place while Mr. Way was talking in the previous one. Next chapter were going to check in with Mr. Dobson, be prepared.