just a dream | simanda ✔

chapter seventeen: just a dream

"You're really awake and I'm not dreaming that you are!" Simon said. "Oh my God."

Amanda gave him a smile, a least what she could because of the tube that was helping her to breathe.

"I think we can freak out Alesha sometime soon. When she comes back in, you should pretend to be unconscious still and tap her hand with your finger, like you did with me to prove that you are really awake," Simon said with a mischievous glint in his eyes.

Amanda smiled again and nodded.

"Then you have to tell me if you were in a dream while you were unconscious here," Simon said.

Amanda nodded her head as if to say that she would tell Simon what had happened to her during the dream. She mimed writing and Simon dug a piece of paper and a pen out of Alesha's purse, although Alesha would kill him for going into her purse.

She wrote: as soon as I get this tube out I'll tell you everything that happened.

She showed what she wrote to Simon and he commented, "your handwriting is incredibly messy, 'Manda and you're a teacher. Can your students even read your writing?"

Amanda frowned at him jokingly and nodded her head to say that her students could read her handwriting.

I haven't wrote for four weeks! It's going to be messy! She wrote and then showed Simon, making him laugh.

"I have to tell your doctor that you're awake. They're probably going to try to wean you off of the ventilator because you're conscious. You had a serious injury that was impairing your breathing," Simon said and he left the room. Amanda heard a small shriek come from outside the hospital room and it belonged to Alesha. Simon had to have told her that Amanda was conscious and communicating.

Alesha came into the hospital room, almost running in.

"Simon just told me! You have to tell both of us what you could understand when you were unconscious," Alesha said. "Were you dreaming the whole time?"

Amanda nodded that she did dream the entire time that she was unconscious but she didn't know if it truly was a dream or not still. Only Simon would be able to confirm if it was all a dream or not.

I don't know for sure though. I have to tell everything to Simon first before I can say if I was dreaming, Amanda wrote on the scrap of paper from Alesha's purse.

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A couple of hours after Amanda regained consciousness, she was weaned from the ventilator after she was able to prove that she could breathe on her own without difficulty.

She was sitting up in the hospital bed when Simon came back in.

"Hey," he said. "How are you feeling?"

"I could be better," Amanda responded. "How much do my students miss me right now and how are they doing with the substitute teacher?"

"They're doing good but I don't think they like the substitute teacher much. I don't like her much either. She keeps trying to hit on me and flirt with me," Simon replied. "It's disgusting how much she's trying to flirt with me."