Selenas POV:
Everything was black. I could hear muffled sounds, but I couldn’t move my arms, my head, my legs. Anything! I tried to open my eyes our make a sound to cry out for help but I couldn’t. I laid there, where ever I was helpless.
After a few minutes of being swallowed whole by the darkness I tried to remember what happened. I remembered Justin and his perfect smile. We were about to kiss when something happened and we were pushed into the intersection. I remember smacking my head off the steering wheel. I remember Justin’s face filled with horror as he looked at me then behind me. I saw the blood falling from his nose onto his shirt. I tried to shake my head to get rid of the memory but I still couldn’t move, so I kept living out the memory. I remember turning my head to look out my window and seeing a tractor trailer blowing it’s way toward us. I remembering hearing myself scream but after that everything went black. Just like it is now. Black.. I just wish I knew where Justin was.
Justins POV:
I jumped straight out of my skin when I regained consciousness. I opened my eyes and everything was blurry. I jumped so quickly I pulled the heartbeat sensor off of my finger and the loud beeping noise of someone flat lining was ringing through my ears.
I felt hands on my shoulder and I saw a blurred image of someone with brown hair laying me back down.
“Selena?” I asked as I let the women put something back on my finger to make the ringing noise stop.
“No Justin, I’m sorry. I’m not Selena.” The women replied.
“Where is she? Is she okay? Am I okay? How come everything’s so blurry.” I had all these question’s flying around in my head they all started coming out at once.
“I-I need to get the doctor Justin hold on.” The women as she rushed out of the room.
Doctor? Was I ever going to see normally again.. and what’s going on with Selena. I heard the heart beat monitor speed up, my heart beat was racing. I thought it was going to jump out of my chest.
“Justin. We didn’t expect you to wake up till late tonight. How are you feeling?” I heard a man ask me.
“Where’s Selena?” I said sternly ignoring his question.
“We need to talk about you first Justin.” The doctor said calmly.
“No where is she!” I shouted as loud as I could but my throat was so dry I bet it didn’t sound like I was trying to yell at all.
I heard the doctor sigh “I’ll tell you everything about her when you tell me how you’re feeling.”
“It hurts to keep my eyes open, my left side is throbbing and I can’t really feel my left foot. Now where is she.” I replied as I tried to open my eyes and focus on the doctor more.
“We didn’t expect you to wake up when you did we just took the bandages off your eyes an hour ago. Lay back and let me put these eye drops in. You should be able to see fine in an hour but you’ve got to try to keep your eyes closed. I’m going to put bandages back on them so you wont be tempted to look and look right into the lights. You got glass in your eyes but I’ve flushed them out many times and I didn’t see any sign of permanent damage. As for your side, you cracked your ribs and you broke your left knee. But we’ll be able to heal you all up.”
I sighed relief knowing I was alright for the most part, but I had an uneasy feeling in my stomach about Selena. Why was he avoiding the topic so much about her. I didn’t want to ask again because I figured if he hadn’t told me already… it was something serious. I swallowed the lump in my throat and let him put the eye drops in and put the bandages over my eyes.
“We’ll be back in an hour Justin. If you need anything push the button in your left hand. Your mother is sleeping in the next room but I’ll wake her up now.” The doctor said before leaving the room.
I was left with a cooling feeling taking over my eyes and nothing but the memories of the last time I saw Selena’s face. I tried my hardest not to cry because I didn’t want to push the eye drops out so I took a deep breath and slowly drifted back off to sleep.
Selenas POV:
“Oh my baby.” I heard my mother cry waking me from my sleep, I felt a tingling sensation on my hand. I tried to move my hand away but I still couldn’t move any part of my body.
What is going on!! I screamed in my head hoping my lips would move a little bit. I wanted some part of my body to listen to me!
“How is she?” I heard my mom ask someone.
My hearing was a lot better than it was when I first woke up. How long had I been sleeping? Or had I been like this. My body felt dead, limp, worthless. But my mind was racing all over the place trying to figure out why I couldn’t open my eyes.
“She’s healing up quiet well. Later tonight we’re going to try to see if she can breathe on her own.” I heard a women say quietly. ”All of her limbs will heal, we just need to make sure she can breathe on her own before we know anything else. I’m sorry. But we won’t give up and neither should you.”
I heard my mom choke back more tears and clear her throat “I won’t we’ve been praying for both of them every night since it happened.”
Every night? How long have I been like this! Justin.. oh my god. Justin. I could feel it in my throat like I was going to cry but when it came to actual tears coming, nothing happened. My throat felt clammy, but that could also be because I was so thirsty. I wish someone would tell me what happened to Justin. I felt a small bit of relief to know what was wrong with me. But I cared more about Justin than I did myself.
“Mandy?” I heard another womans voice say with a light knock on the door.
“Oh pattie.” I heard my mom cry. The tingling sensation left my hand and all I heard was both Pattie and my mom crying together.
“How is he?” My mom asked as I heard a creaking noise. So I assumed they were sitting down in chairs.
“He’s alright, the doctor said he woke up half an hour ago and was talking to them. He said his side and his leg hurt but besides that he’s alright.” Pattie said taking deep breaths in between sentences.
“That’s wonderful.” My mom said consoling Pattie. But you could hear it in her voice she was wishing she could say the same about me.
“How’s Selena. Has she moved at all..” Pattie asked hesitantly.
“No, she hasn’t moved at all. But the doctors say it’s best she’s in a coma at least for now, if she was awake she’d be in a lot of pain. But… we’ll know tonight. They’re going to try and have her breath on her own tonight.” I could hear that my mom was crying again.
A coma… I’m in a coma. I tried flail all of my limps all over the place but it was useless. My body had stopped listening to me. I was a vegetable. As far as I was concerned I was dead! I was just happy to hear Justin’s alright.
I’d give anything to hear his voice, to feel his touch. To have him hold me in his arms.
I tried for a couple more minutes as my mom and Pattie talked about how the driver that hit the car behind us causing a domino effect that pushed us into oncoming traffic fell asleep at the wheel. And was being sued. But I just wanted both of them to leave the room. I didn’t want to hear about the crash I just wanted to dream of Justin. Dream of his voice and his kiss.
I blocked out their voices which was easier than I thought it’d be and I pictured Justin looking into my eyes smiling and singing me to sleep. As I relived one of our many memories I knew I wouldn’t stop trying to wake my body up. I needed to see him again. I’d do anything and everything I could to get out of this coma, I had to..
