Markson - The Unexpected Journey

Chapter 6

Mark's point of view

I saw a bright light. I thought I was dead for a moment before my eyes started focus. I saw someone at my left, at my bedside with their head next to my leg, sleeping. It's Jackson. I felt warm seeing him there, he makes me feel safe. "Why do I feel this way?" I ask myself as I still felt really dizzy as ever. I stroked the top of Jackson's head and threaded my fingers through his hair. I tried to stay conscious but the dizziness took that away from me.

I awoke again, an hour had passed. My fingers were still tangled in Jackson's hair. I took my hand away as I saw Pippa at the door. "You're awake?" I gave her a long blink. "He's been here the whole time, he won't leave your side." Pippa continued. I smiled and looked down towards Jackson who is still sleeping at my bedside.

"Where am I?" I asked. "You are in the hospital. Long story short, when you threw your phone at school, we had a snoop on it and clicked on 'maps' and found your apartment is and went there. When we got to your floor, we saw a man outside of your door and he had a gun so we hid around the corner. After all that happened, we ran to you and helped you as best we could and then you got taken to the hospital." Pippa explained soon adding, "Why did that guy do that to you anyway?"

I looked away as I didn't want to answer, I'm not ready to answer. "Come on! You can't let us witness that and not tell us why." Pippa complained. "For goodness sake, can you be quiet?" Jackson said lifting his head up with tired eyes. Pippa didn't like that and left the room. "Do you feel better?" Jackson asked in a cute sleepy voice. "Yeah." I smiled back at him.

The doctor came into the room, "Hi there. You look much better since I last saw you as there was blood all over you. Anyway, you only have to stay for a couple more days, then you can go home." I nodded and the doctor swiftly walked back out. I regained some of my strength over the couple days so I can get out of this place.

A couple days have passed, I gathered my belongings that Jackson brought from my apartment. He brought most of my clothing and everything that was deemed as important. "You can stay at my place. Your apartment isn't all fixed up yet as it's been a crime scene for the past couple of days." Jackson told me. I didn't know what to say or do so I agreed to it. We walked out of the room and down to the exit. Jackson called for a taxi to take us to his place.

As we waited, Jackson pronounced, "I have already told my mum what happened to you and she knows you are coming over to stay." As soon as the taxi arrived, we climb into the taxi and we made our way to Jackson's house. As we arrive, his mother is waiting outside. As she saw me, her smile soon turned into a sad smile. What do you expect? My arm is in a sling, my head is still hurting and I haven't showered in 3 days!

She came up to me as Jackson grabbed my things out of the taxi, "You can stay here as long as you need to." She kindly said with a smile. "Thank you Mrs Wang." I smiled. "Come on in then, I was just getting dinner ready." she continued. Jackson grabbed my right hand and pulled me inside and told me to sit at the table, which I did. Mrs Wang turned to me, "You will be sleeping in Jackson's room as there is no other beds. Is that okay?" I nodded. She started to set the table and Jackson was in his room, putting my bags there.

We waited for Jackson as stumbled down stairs and sat at the table to eat. "Your father will be home late tonight." she told Jackson but he didn't seem to care. After we ate, Jackson and I went up to the bedroom and sat on the bed with our backs against the wall. "So do you want to watch a movie? I have loads." Jackson said in a burst of excitement as he jumped up to select a film. "Will this one do?" He shows me 'Percy Jackson and the lightning thief'. "Yeah." I answered. Jackson put the film on and sat by my side.

Third person

Jackson sat back next to Mark. Mark is still being quiet but at least he has come to trust Jackson. It got half way through the film and Jackson felt Mark touch his shoulder. He looked over to see that Mark is falling asleep. Jackson giggled slightly as Mark couldn't stay awake. Mark's head falls onto Jackson's shoulder but his head soon fell off his shoulder. Jackson caught his head in a panic. He didn't really know what to do so he carefully moved Mark's body as he moved to lay down. He turned the tv off and let Mark's head lay on Jackson's chest as they both slept.