"Tell me how you feel." Someone is close up to my face. I wrinkle up my face, and look straight into the man's face. He has white hair, and looks around 50 years old.
"What?" I ask, confused about what is happening.
"On a scale one to one-hundred, one being amazing and one-hundred being horrible, how do you feel?" He asks me again, I don't bother asking what he still means, I just give him an answer.
"One." I tell him, which is the complete truth.
"Good. Do you know what year it is?" He asks me,
"2014." I reply.
"Good. Do you know what happened to you?" He asks me
"I was outside, in the rain looking for Archie," I am quiet for a few seconds, "He went missing and he needed his medication. I found him and he told me to wake up, I don't remember what happened then." I tell him, which is the truth. He jots something down on his notepad, and then looks back up to me.
"Do you remember when you fell out of that tree near the river on your mothers funeral day?" He asks me, flashbacks come to me, and I remember it all.
"Um-Yes. Yeah, I do." I tell him.
"Okay, well what happened after that?" He asks, I fidget with my thumbs while he is talking.
"I went into hospital and then I came out, Archie gave me some roses." I look up to him, he has a conserned face.
"Okay, honey. Now I am sorry for what I am about to tell you, but-"
"Is Archie alright? Did he get his medication in time?"
"Zella, you have been in a coma for 4 years now." Thoughts rush through my mind. Archie?
"Where's Archie? Does he have cancer? What's happening?" I feel a hand on my shoulder when I speak. I turn to it. It's Archie. I move up my bed, so I am able to hug him.
"It's alright. It's alright." He keeps telling me, he reapeats it for a while. I move my head away from his shoudler and kiss him, but he lets go.
"What?" I ask him, confused.
"You've just never kissed me before." I slide down my bed again, staring into thin air, thinking about what has happened to me. "Zella?" My whole life with Archie has gone. I never had it. It was all in my mind. "Zella? It's fine, I was just-," he pauses, "Can you give us a minute?" I guessing he was talking to the doctor. The doctor leaves. "Zella. Look at me," and I do. "I was just shocked, I didn't know what happened." He tells me.
"My life has been a lie." I tell him, "I barely actually know you, but I feel like I have known you for years." I tell him.
"It's okay, look if you want to know what has been happening in the past few years, I can catch you up." I laugh a little.
"And I could catch you up on my years." I tell him, he smiles and laughs at me, which makes me do the same.
"You go first." He tells me, I grab onto his neck as quick as I can and kiss him. I wanted him off guard. I have been wanting to kiss him in my 'fake' few years and now I am here, I might aswell.
He holds on this time.
