Trapped

Chapter 28

Violet POV

As soon as I got back to my house, I made my way up to my bedroom and pulled out my laptop. Yes I should be working on some homework assignment Im sure, but all the talk about the miraculous thirty something page long essay that won this contest, I wanna read it.

I still feel all warm inside from the time at the diner. I just feel an enormous sense of warmth whenever I'm around him. Its the only time I truly feel alive, when I'm with him. Crazy? Yeah, yeah you could definitely say I'm crazy. 

Smiling still, I open up our school's website page and scroll down until I find the link to the essay winner.

"Thirty three pages. That's only a little insane" I mumble to myself as the essay loads.

You would never think that waking up in a museum, alone in the room with only the sounds of the ticking clock to fill the void of silence would lead to something incredible. He stood up from his position on the bench, looking around for the running kids that he could have sworn were here mere minutes ago. The clock on the other hand had let him know that he had been asleep for a little while. He slipped on his leather jacket and  began to walk around, not seeming to find any source of life around him. He decided to travel to the front desk of the museum to find an employee. When there was no one their either he had gone into a new state of confusion and a feeling of lost. Then he heard her. She was calling for another name, but it didn't matter, because someone else was here. Someone who he would share his loneliness with. It was this moment that everything changed. When he heard her voice.

Violet

After I read the first paragraph I could physically feel my heart beating, as if it was beating out of my chest. 

"Don't think too much into this Violet. You're looking to far into this." I said to myself as I got up and walked around for a second. I stopped and took a deep breath before laying back down on my bed and began to read the next part of the essay,

Its not that she annoyed him at first, because he was sure that she thought she was annoying. But that wasn't it, that's not why he wasn't acting himself around her at first. It was the fact that she was bold, she was smart, smartest in his school actually. But that's all he had known about her prior to this occurrence. The four hours that he had spent in McDonalds with her they talked the whole time, laughing, discussing ideas as to why they were alone in the world. Somewhere in those hours he had already known that she was going to be something special in his life. And for a solitary moment, he was happy that she was the only person left to talk to. Somehow he knew that she was it for him, no matter what was to happen from then on out. They were left alone on the planet, but he had never felt less lonely when he was with her.

I immediately shut my laptop and pulled out my phone and called Ryan. My heart was pounding against my rib cage and it was actually hard to breathe.

"Hey, didn't I just say bye to you like twenty minutes ago?" He asked and laughed

"Ryan have you read the whole essay story thing that won?" I cut right to the chase and he stopped laughing

"Uh no I haven't, I just got home a couple minutes ago, why?" He asked more serious this time

"Okay, I know this sounds crazy, but I'm actually freaking out right now" I start and I'm guessing he can hear my deep breathing because he sounds worried,

"Violet whats wrong?" He asks me and I try to take a deep breath,

"The essay... Its a story. Its the story of what happened when I was in the coma." I stutter out