“Violet? Violet? Violet!!!” I heard a little girl scream. For a moment I was disoriented and couldn’t remember where I was, who I was. I vaguely thought, “who’s Violet?” before I remembered everything. Cancer. Death. Lights. Alex. Where was Alex? “Katie?” I mumbled, saying it more as a question. “Katie?” I asked again, this time my voice coming out more clearly than before. I moved me head to the side; I felt a pillow underneath my head and a bed in a sitting up position. I was still in the hospital.
“Yes! Yes, Vi, Im right here Violet!!” Katie nearly screamed with joy at seeing me alive, I had never heard her more happy in my life. If I had returned just to hear her laugh and be happy again, I would.
I thought back to what had happened before I had died, trying to think past the pain I had been in. I remembered the machine make a low beeping sound, signaling that my heart had stopped. But then how was I alive? I remember Alex weeping next to me. Where was Alex? “Alex?” I asked.
“He’s right here Violet, but how are you alive? You died!! The doctors used those paddle thingies on you and then your heart started beating again, but the doctors said that we needed to prepare ourselves because that probably wouldn’t happen and they looked surprised when your heart started beating again! And you look really good Vi!! Your color in your face is back and you don’t look like you’re in pain anymore, are you in pain Violet? How are you alive…” Katie had been rambling really fast until the last sentence where she slowly trailed off.
I had been listening. So the doctors brought me back to life with the paddles. That would explain how my heart started beating again, but not how I was better than before. Did the chemo start working at the last minute? No, I didn’t think so. I wanted some advice from someone other than a 6 year old to tell me how this happened. I wanted an explanation.
Everything was still dark. I opened my eyes to see that I was still in the hospital, and Katie was hovering over me, her eyes red and full of tears. I wasn’t sure if they were happy or sad.
“Alex?” I called out; my questioning tone asking if everything Katie said was true.
“I’m here Violet.”
“How am I still alive?”
“I’ll tell you later, if you don’t run out on me this time when I try to explain.” His voice was humorous, but it was cracking so I assumed that he had been crying as well.
“I’m not in pain anymore?” I said it as a question.
“No, you shouldn’t be, that how it works.” Alex answered.
“That’s how what works?”
“Ill tell you later Violet, not right now in the hospital.
“What will the doctors say when they find out how much better I’m doing?”
“They won’t notice that you’re cured because we’re getting the hell out of this retched hospital.”
“What???” I stated, “Where are we going?”
My mind was blank and I needed a second to think. Did he do something illegal? Why did we have to leave the hospital? I hated hospitals as much as anyone, possibly even more now because of what had happened here, but what if something happened? What if I got sick again and fainted? What if I died? Alex wouldn’t let anything bad happen to me would he?
“Trust me Vi, we need to get out of the hospital.” Alex looked at me with sincerity and I knew that I had to believe that whatever he was doing, he was doing the right thing. I had to trust him, he had all the answers.
“Okay, I need some clothes first though, I am NOT leaving the hospital in this horrid gown.”
Alex smiled at me, seeming happy that I trusted him enough to agree, and that I was okay enough to joke around.
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Elixir
Підліткова літератураViolet had an okay life. She loved her little sister, her parents... But that was all soon going to come to a close when she found out that she had cancer. But Alex, a boy she meets at school and falls in love with, has a secret. That secret will de...
