just a dream | simanda ✔

chapter nine: accident

Amanda had left Simon's house a little later than she had expected. She had left Simon blushing from her comment about him staring at her breasts and he blushed for the rest of their conversation until Amanda left. That had made Amanda laugh until her face was red and her sides were hurting.

She seemed to have that effect on Simon. He always blushed at least once when she was around him.

He probably has a crush on me, Amanda thought. And I have a crush on him. When will he ask me out on a date then?

Amanda was driving home and it was pouring like Simon had predicted earlier in the day. The roads were slick from the rain and Amanda was having trouble keeping her car staying straight on the road. She was almost hydroplaning as she drove.

Amanda laid down on her car horn, a truck had almost hit her as she went through a green light. The next light, her car was hit.

Amanda didn't know what happened next but she felt something hurting. She was hurt and she didn't know where.

She heard someone get out of the truck that hit her and stopped the traffic. The person was able to open Amanda's driver side door because the glass from the window had broken. She didn't see who had opened the car door but she heard a male voice.

The male voice asked, "you're not okay, are you?"

Amanda heard herself respond, "no."

Amanda saw everything go black and then come back to her. She was going in and out of consciousness now.

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Amanda was fading in and out of consciousness as someone brought the gurney that she was laying on into the hospital emergency room. She could barely hear what was going on, it was that loud in the emergency room.

"Car accident! Patient is severely injured!" Someone yelled above her. They were talking about her.

Everything hurt. It hurt to breath for Amanda so she let the darkness that was closing in on her take her out of consciousness again.

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When Amanda awoke, it still hurt to breath and something was restricting her from talking. Her chest was wrapped up in something underneath the hospital gown that she was wearing. She could feel two people holding her hands and someone was crying onto her left hand as they held it.

"Please wake up, Amanda," a female voice said. She recognized the voice that was talking as Alesha's but she didn't know who the other person was that was holding her hand. It could've been Alesha's girlfriend, Eliza, as Amanda was sort of close to her but the hand felt too rough to belong to Eliza.

"You better listen to Alesha, 'Manda. You need to wake up," a male voice said. This voice Amanda recognized as belonging to Simon. Simon was the one holding her left hand so he was the one that was crying. "You're making me cry, 'Manda and I don't think Alesha wants to see me cry."

"I don't so you need to regain consciousness again," Alesha replied.

Simon was rubbing circles with his thumb on the hand he was holding so Amanda squeezed at his hand first and then squeezed Alesha's hand with her right.

"Did you feel that, Alesha? Amanda squeezed my hand!" Simon sounded happy as he talked.

"She squeezed mine too!" Alesha sounded extremely happy as well as she talked. They both looked up and Amanda could see Alesha and Simon smiling at her.

"You're awake!" Simon said grinning at her. "You've been unconsious for two days."

Amanda raised her eyebrow as if to say really? because she couldn't talk. The ventilator tube was preventing her from saying anything back to Simon and Alesha.

"Yes, really, Amanda. You've been out for two days and your students are missing you so much," Alesha said to her. "We've missed you too."

"I've been forced to talk to your crazy friend more than usual," Simon complained jokingly.

"Oh, stop it. You've talked to me the same amount as usual!" Alesha retorted. The two did get along extremely well but it was clear neither of them had crushes on each other. Amanda wanted to laugh but she couldn't because of the ventilator tube.

She mimed writing on her hand to tell Simon and Alesha that she wanted to talk. Alesha took a piece of paper and a pen out of her purse and handed them to Amanda.

How long have both of you been by my side since I lost consciousness? was the first thing that Amanda wrote.

"I came as soon as Alesha called me to tell me that your mother had called her to say that you had been in a car accident. We both took personal days today so we could stay with you as long as we could," Simon replied.

"Your mum called me as soon as the hospital called her but Simon is right. We left the hospital long enough for both of us to get sleep and to eat something," Alesha responded. "I have to tell your doctor that you're conscious now."

Alesha left the hospital room, leaving Amanda and Simon alone with each other.

How bad were my injuries? Amanda wrote on the paper and then showed Simon what she wrote.

"Pretty bad. You were in surgery when Alesha and I came here. You had to get on a ventilator because a couple of your ribs got fractured and punctured your right lung so they had to fix it. You also came out of the accident with both of your hips broken so they had to preform surgery on that as well. You were pretty bad looking when we came into your room the first time," Simon responded.

That's not nice! She wrote to him.

"It was the truth, darling," Simon replied. He had called her darling and that made Amanda blush. He truly did have a crush on her if he was giving her a pet name.

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Hello guys and so the plot begins! You'll see why I've called this fanfic Just a Dream at the end of the fanfic during the last chapter which is a while away. Why do you think I've called it Just a Dream? I would love to see your guesses!

How did you guys like this chapter and the suspense in it? I think I did pretty well with the descriptions of the accident and Amanda's injuries. Please tell me what you loved about this chapter! Bye until the next chapter!