After the horrifying phone call on Mike's phone, I just froze in place. No movement came form my muscles or bones. Nick asked, " Kris, what's wrong?" "Kris?" he starts shaking me, and I come to face reality. After minutes of silence between me and Nick, I decide to speak. I can barely talk behind my invisible pain. " Mike... Mike was in a-a accident," was all that came out. Nick just looks down at the hardwood floor, knowing that kind of pain that I'm feeling. He was just as good a friend of Mike as I was, the three of us always stuck with eachother. So, we each know exactly how the other is feeling, we're both feeling dead inside, like a reaper just reached deep within our souls and took out all but a little, so we still had to feel something.
I remember that the man on the phone had said something about a hospital... if only I could remember which hospital he said. After searching in my brain for the answer, I finally found it, he said that Mike is at St. Helena hospital. I know exactly where it is. I grab my keys and walk out the door, Nick closes it behind me. I get in the driver seat, and he takes the passanger seat. I must look as bad as I feel because Nick says, " Dude, are you sure you're okay to drive?" I just let him drive because I'm not in the mood for any form of an argument. I just slump back in my seat, not looking forward to what we are about to encounter.
The drive to the hospital is probably the longest drive I've ever had to sit through, all the emotions that are going through my head, I'm surprised that my head hasn't blown up yet. I get out of the car and sprint through the sliding doors to the hospital. I get to the front desk, and I'm out of breath, " I'm... Looking... for... Mike Wi-... Williams" I manage to say. She looks at me for a second and goes to talk to one of the other nurses. She returns a moment later and leads me to his room. I see that there are no windows in his room that show the hallway. I open the door, my heart is reacing fast. I take a slow walk down the very short hallway from the door to his bed, I see him, unconcious. Machines beeping are the only thing breaking this painful silence, I just move a seat over to his bed, sit down right beside him, take his hand and say, " Mike, I don't know if you can hear me, but I'm going to stay here, until the day that your eyes open, until the day that you can breath on your own." Tears are streaming down my fae now, I'm alittle embarassed remembering that there are some nurses in the room, but I honestly don't care that much, I want them to see the love and respect I have for a man who has been with me my whole life.
I must have fallen asleep because I wake up in the same room, but no one is in the bed. I get out of my chair, no noise at all. The whole world seems to be silent. I walk out of the room, and I see nurses and patients and doctors all roaming throughout the halls. I stop one nurse. I ask what happened to Mike, and she said that his injuries were just minor, and that when I got there he was just sleeping. I felt my face begin to burn out of embarrasment, I cried in front of people for nothing. She also said that he was discharged this morning. I say thanks and leave. I don't know how he left because my car is still here, Nick came with me, and his car is in the shop. I call Mike, and he picks up, "Hey man, where are you? Band practice started like 25 minutes ago." I reply, " I woke up in the hospital next to your bed, why didn't you guys wake me up?" "We thought you needed some sleep and didn't want to disturb you," was all he could say.
I get in my car, and I put the keys in the ignition. I drive away from the hospital, and onto the road of Mikes house. I pull up into his driveway and shut off my car. I just sit there, and take a deep breath, trying to process what could've happened to Mike. I exit my car, and go up to Mikes front door. I open it, no need to knock since this is like my second house. Mike and Nick are sitting on Mike's couch. I sit with them. We sit in silence. I just look at Mike, I am so grateful that he is here, alive and well. Mike and Nick look sad, so I ask, "Is everything alright?" They just look at Mike's wall, no reaction what so ever. They only get like this when there is something wrong. "What's wrong?" Nick just looks me dead in the eyes, not like a death stare, but a 'I'm sorry stare' it looks like he tries to say something, but he gets chocked up. Mike looks at me now, no emotion, and the words that he says, I will never forget. " It's Nicole, she was in the other car in my car acident. Kris, she's dead." My sister, killed by my best friend? Why is this happening to me?
