The Broken Record Player

Chapter 5

        I open my eyes, and I am in a plain white room, on a plain white bed. There is a red button in front of me. Above it says 'Call' I try to reach it, but I can't. I sit up and finally touch it. About 5 seconds later, a lady in a white simple dress opens the door. Her mouth wide open.

"DOCTORS, DOCTORS. SHE IS AWAKE! QUICK! NOW!" She leaves the door open and puts her hand on my neck.

"She is breathing, and she has a pulse rate." A doctor comes into the room.

"Okay, I will carry on from here. You just talk to her." The doctor starts taking random tests on my left side and the nurse - I'm guessing she is a nurse - starts talking.

"Hello, I am Zoey. Can you see me?" I want to say yes, but I can't open my mouth.

"Please do something if you can see me." I blink twice.

"Okay good, I'm guessing you can hear me." I want to nod, but my neck is in pain. So instead I slowly move my hand up to hers, which is very close. She smiles and when she blinks a tear falls.

"Okay, please talk for me now, can you do that?" I try to open my mouth, but it's jammed shut. I move my other free hand to my jaw, to see what's happened. I think it is dislocated. I put pressure on it, and It clicks. I finally open my mouth, and words just come out.

"My neck." Is all I say, before my eyes close again.

"Okay, stay with us Hailey, we know you can. Doctor, check her neck. So while you were sleeping we gave you an x-Ray. Your neck area was swollen, and your jaw was a little confused. We don't know what was wrong with your jaw, but it looked liked it just needed a little click." My hand flops down on the bed again, and I can't open my eyes. "Hailey, listen to me, okay? Everything is going to be okay, we have called your parents and family. They are on their way. A nice little girl called Alana is eating some ice cream in the waiting area, she came to see you everyday. She can't eat in here, so she is just outside. She will be coming in soon. So please open your eyes so you can see her."

"Her blood pressure is high." I hear a man say, I'm guessing the doctor.

"Okay, thank you, it will lower when she opens her eyes and sees her friend. I'm sure." I want to open my eyes but I can't feel the energy to.

"Hailey?" I hear Alana come through the door. I feel 2 hands on my hand.

"I'm sorry, but It looks like she isn't opening her eyes, do you know any way how to open them? You know her best." The nurse is talking to Alana.

"I will try." I feel hands on my face. Then a slap on my cheek. My eyes open as soon as I feel the pain.

"Hailey?" The nurse is surprised Alana slapped me. "When my mother was in hospital she wouldn't open her eyes, my father slapped her, I can't remember why, and she woke up. I wanted to give it a try."

"What happened?" I ask.

"Hailey, please answer my questions first, and then we can tell you exactly what happened. Okay, firstly what is the date?" The nurse asks.

"It is the 4th of July." I reply, my voice is a little strained.

"Okay, do you remember what happened." Alana looks at the nurse, looking confused. Did I say something wrong?

"The last think I remember is Alana's shout, and then her face next to mine. I fell on the floor, after..." I can't remember, I scan my head for information.

"I was there. Some Redder twisted her neck." As Alana talks, the nurse jots down what she is saying.

"Thank you. Now Hailey. You have been in a coma for 1 year. Well just less. It is the 5th of June, and you came here on the 4th of July." Coma?

"I'm really hungry." Is all I can say. Alana grabs something out of her bag. A red apple. I get it off her and bite a small amount off.

"You are going to be here over night. Just so we can check on you." The nurse says.

I turn to Alana, behind her is 3 chairs in a row with a pillow and a blanket. She must of stayed some nights.

"Sky day? What happened last year, I guess." Alana looks at me, and smiles.

"Nobody changed, I mean out of the whole world. Not one person changed! Lucky for us we had the year off. We still have a month, so make the most of it." I will, I say in my head. I take another bite of my apple. A nurse comes into the room, and shuts the door.

"Hailey?" I turn to look at her and nod, I forgot how painful my neck is.

"There is someone in the waiting room, who would like to see you. Should I let him in?" Him? It must be Peter or Father.

"Yes sure." I reply. I watch the door as she leaves and don't take my eyes off it until he comes in. He has a big smile on his face, and some beautiful Lily's in his hand. It's not Father, it's not Peter. It's Charlie.

"Hailey, I heard from some Redders what happened. I ke-" Charlie shuts the door behind him.

"Who was it?" I ask.

"What?" Charlie put the flowers on the table at the end of my bed.

"I should get going. Nurse can you show me where to get some food?" Alana leaves with the nurse, they close the door but before Alana leaves she mouths something to me, like 'WOW FLOWERS!' Then she leaves.

"Who almost killed me? He was a Redder." I sit up a little, and then use the remote that lifts the bed up.

"I...I don't know. I wasn't there. I heard about it in the Loop, so when I saw Alana she told me the news about you. And then when I heard you were awake, I came." He looks like he is hiding something.

"And brought some flowers." He smiles, but I don't smile back. "Why are you here?"

"I just wanted to see if you are alright. It's all a little crazy isn't it." I don't really know Charlie, I met him once. But then a year later he comes and gives me flowers.

"I thought I was going to die. Well I'm alive. The nurse said I will be out tomorrow. Promise me something." I figure out that he may know how to get hold of this guys name.

"Yes. Sure." Charlie shifts in his seat.

"Can you find out who it was?" I bite the last part of my apple, and put it down.

"Ye-...yes I will. I need to go. You know, need to work. See you later." He walks off and leaves. He left quickly, so I just lye down and think. I still don't completely know what happened to me. I don't feel like I was in a coma. The door opens, Alana comes in with a big cheesy grin on her face.

"What was that about?" She asks, she has a skip in her walk. She is quite jolly, but I don't know why.

"I'm as confused as you are. Maybe a little more." As she sits down the door opens again.

"Hello Hailey. I am Dr.Prick. I have been watching you for just under a year. You are awake! High-five!" He lifts up his arm, and I high-five it. "Your family is on their way. But, do you need anything right now?" I shake my head, "okay, well everything looks fine, you may be able to go home for tonight. I will see you when your family is here, but right now I need to check up on someone else." He turns away and walks out of the room.

"Can you shut the door?" I turn my face to Alana who was on the other side of the room. As she stands up she does a little jump, and takes long strides to the door, but not in a freaky way, just longer strides than usual.

"Aren't these nice flowers! It was very nice of him. I always kept him updated about you, he wanted to know how you were doing. He seems....nice." I smile a little, with my eyes closed.

"I feel like sleeping for a little, before everyone comes, do you mind if you wake me up when they come?" I say while using the remote to bring the bed back down. She nods and picks up a magazine from a big stack of them. I'm guessing she read quite a few while I was here.