Abused

57: Bite

Tyler was exhausted, all that hiking with the love of his life and he was beat. He yawns as his fluffy brown hair floofs around and he starts to brush his teeth. Josh searched the pantry for food.

"Tacos?" Josh asked.

"Josh! We just ate a three course meal at a all you can eat buffet! Are you nuts??"

"Haha... maybe a little."

Tyler giggles, and continued to brush his teeth. His stomach growled and groaned, and he could feel something wasn't right. He passed it as has pains, but it got worse and worse with every passing second. He tried laying down and resting, but Josh could tell something was up by the look on his face.

"Ty, is something wrong?"

"No, just a little pain."

"..pain?"

"Yeah."

"Oh... well let me know if I can help."

"Love you."

"Love you too bean boy."

Tyler turned toward Josh and snuggled into him. That's when it hit him, a sharp pain shot all the way up his body like a spere impaled him from head to toe, like an electric wire attached to his spine shot a ball of energy upward. The pain was so sharp that Tyler jerked harshly, disturbing Josh.

"Ty?"

Tyler couldn't talk, he was breathing rapidly and heavily, almost how a rabbit breathes when it's heart races. Josh tried to calm Tyler, but he couldn't. Tyler hyperventilated with sweat pouring out of him, while shaking slightly and drooling. Josh was scared, and tried asking Tyler again what was going on.

"The-the-the pain!" Tyler tried to scream but could only manage a soft squeal of pain. Josh ran to the phone, and dialed 911.

"911 what is your emergency?"

"Hi, my boyfriend Tyler has something wrong, terribly wrong! Hurry! I don't know what's going to happen, he's shaking he can't breathe help!" Josh pleaded in terror, and the lady on the other end of the line could barely understand.

"We are trying our best, sir. Remain calm, our forces are on their way."

"How do you expect me to stay calm?? The love of my life is DYING!"

"Sir, I can assure you everything will be okay."

"And if it isn't?"

"Shhh, they are almost there."

Josh hung up on the woman out of anger and dove to Tyler's side. This time Tyler's mouth was foaming and his eyes were rolling back into his head.

It happened so fast... it happened in flashes.

1: Tyler was shaking on the floor, foaming at the mouth not being able to breathe.

2: The ambulance arrives and Tyler is placed in the back of the vehicle in a stretcher, an oxygen mask placed on his face.

3: they ran his body down the hallways of the crowded hospital, trying frantically do get Tyler immediate medical attention. 

4: I sat and watched as a team of doctors and nurses surrounded his bed and examined him. I felt so helpless.

It was 4:10, and Josh was taken by sleep. The smell.... what was it? He couldn't quite put a finger on it.... he couldn't quite pinpoint it. Soap? Kind of. Old people? A little. Hmm.. maybe even death? What does death smell like. Well, he always thought that life would smell like fresh citrus on the breezy beach.. maybe the polish green pine throughout the forest. So death? It was hard to comprehend... but whatever the hospital smelled of must have been just that. The clock ticked, and Tyler's life support machine beeped every few seconds. That was one of the ways to tell if his heart was still beating, with every beat of ye matching was one more heartbeat Tyler had. At this point, they couldn't be certain of what would happen. The doctor pulled josh aside.

"Has anything... peculiar happened today?" The doctor asked.

"Why?"

"We found traces of poison in his circulatory system and need to know if you have any information on this so we can be one step closer to his cure."

"Oh... ummmm.."

Josh tried to think back. What did they do today? Well.. technically it was yesterday because it was 4:13 in the morning. What a time to think so critically. Why? Josh didn't know. Guess it was just a nervous thing. He thought hard.

"We went hiking.."

"And?"

"A snake."

"Did it bite him?"

"Yes."

"What did it look like? Know what type?"

"It was about 90 centimetres... brownish with white stripes... it was shiny looking."

"Oh... oh dear.."

"What..?"

"The common krait. The second most poisonous snake in India. They are the leading type of snake bites around here, but we have little information on them. Let me look into this."

"Will he be okay?"

The doctor looked at josh with a bland look of hopelessness.

"Yes."

Josh could tell, these were words of comfort, not words of truth.

Sorry I haven't updated Guysss! I was at camp with my class with no wifi for three days lmaoo but I'm back! Hope you enjoy!