Be Mine Tonight - Michael Clifford

Chapter 34 - Meeting

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"Rise and shine" a male voice whispered in my ear.

My eyes shot open and I looked at the boy sitting next to me. Nothing about him seemed familiar. He was pretty tall, had dyed hair and green eyes. The band t-shirt he was wearing really reminded me of something, but I couldn't figure out what.

"How ya feelin, drama queen?" He had an accent, I was guessing it was Australian.

I looked around at the hospital room I was in. The boy backed up and sat on the windowsill. "I- uh- who are you?"

Concern flashed over his face. "You don't know who I am?"

"I-no? Should I?"

"Man" the boy laughed "I thought maybe Michael would have at least shown you a picture of me. He's such an asshole"

Michael. I remembered. Adam, the hospital, the nurses giving me something. "You know Michael?"

"Well yeah" the boy with dyed pink hair said, "I'm Jack."

That's not possible. Jack's dead. Right? Unless..no..that means either he lied or I'm- "You're not dead" Jack said.

"Michael said you died. So if you're dead there's no possible way I'm talking to you right now, unless he lied. Which I don't believe he would do."

Jack looked at his reflection in the window and ruffled his hair around until it was sticking up in all the right places. "Nah, he didn't. You're in a coma"

"I'm what?"

He shrugged "You're in a coma. Your lungs filled with fluid and when you started freaking out with Michael there was even less oxygen flow to the brain. Then when the nurses gave you that sedative your brain went into like shutdown mode or something. I'm not really sure."

Great, I'm apparently in a coma, dreaming about talking to my kind of ex boyfriend's dead best friend. If my brain is in shutdown mode does that mean I wont wake up? Jack said I'm not dead so I must be dying.

Jack made his way over and plopped down in the chair next to me. It was so weird how much he was like Michael. The way he carried himself, his clothes, just his overall look screamed Michael. "Don't hurt yourself thinking there, beautiful"

"You hitting on me?" I said, it was sort of a reflex. He sounded just like Michael in that moment.

"No, but I will say my best friend does have a great taste in girls. Better than that chick he was with before I died."

I rolled my eyes, they were literally the same person. It made me wonder what Michael would have been like if Jack never died. But if Jack never died Michael and I probably never would have met...I shook off the thought. "So you said I'm not dead"

"Mhm" he nodded

"So if I'm not dead but my brain went into "shutdown mode" and I'm talking to a dead guy, does that mean I'm dying right now?"

"nope" he answered shortly.

"okay? Then what does it mean?"

"it means you aren't dead or dying. Yet" He was so vague with answers, it was aggravating.

"Will you just stop with these short answers and tell me what's going on." I snapped

"Sassy" He laughed a little "Okay, okay. So remember that book Michael told you to read? If I stay?"

"How do you know he-?"

"I'm dead, remember? I have ghosty powers. You're missing the point here, Riley"

I remembered Michael telling me they were making a movie for the book, I saw the preview a few times. I tried to remember what it was about. "So I'm in like limbo?" I asked

"Ehhhh kinda. This is like that only, a little different. You can't actually see what's going on outside of that pretty little head of yours. Which is why" he pointed to himself "I'm here"

He shuffled around with his hair more, pulling at it to make it stick up. "You're so much like Mikey" I said.

"We were best friends for 95% of our lives."

"He really misses you." I said "He never talked to me much about you, but when he did it was like he was a completely different person. You mean a lot to him"

"I know that. Which is why I'm really hoping you make the right decision."

"Jack, he can live without me"

All I did was hurt him. I told him I didn't want to see him. After the special times we had together and everything he told me, I threw him out like he didn't matter.

"I don't think that's true."

"It is"

Jack stood up and held a hand out to me. "come on"

"I'm hooked up to like five different machines. I can't go any were"

A half smirk made it's way onto his face. "This is basically a dream. You can do whatever you want. Now come on, we don't have a ton of time"

I stood up and it was like I never had an IV. My body felt normal. I was expecting to be in a hospital gown but I wasn't. Surprisingly I was in my favorite jeans and t-shirt. I looked at Jack with a raised eyebrow. "I know you love those clothes so I may have tweaked with your dream a little" he said.

"Thanks" I smiled

He led me down the hallway of the hospital, everyone was frozen in time. It was really damn strange. Nurses looking at charts, doctors speaking to patients. Jack stopped at the waiting room. "look around" he said

My eyes traveled around the room. My family was sat in a corner. My doctor was in the middle of speaking to my family. Mom had her hand over her mouth, holding her stomach. My step dad had his arms around her, she was obviously crying. Carly fell against the wall, Luke had his hands on her face. Ashton, oh Ash. I forgot how much I missed him. He was leaving, Calum was running after him it looked like. Everyone was here, except one person. "Wheres Mikey? How long have I been out?" I asked.

"You've been out for about twelve hours now. The doctor was just telling them about the coma and your brain."

"They think I'm not waking up, don't they?"

Jack nodded slowly "He told them there was a 20% chance you would wake up in the next five hours. If you don't there's a huge chance you might have major brain damage"

"Where is Michael, Jack? Does he know I might not make it? Is he mad at me about Adam?"

All he did was shake his head and held his hand out. "Grab my hand and hold on"

I did as he said and we were suddenly teleported to some random neighbourhood. "What are we doing here?"

"Michael is here." He pointed to the front door of a little tan house.

There he was. I couldn't miss his bright red hair. The door to the house was open and he was talking to someone inside. "What is he doing?"

Jack lightly pushed me towards the house. He wanted me to see for myself. So I did. I slowly stepped up the driveway and stood next to Michael. It was so hard for me to not wrap my arms around him. To run my fingers through his hair and say how sorry I am, for everything.

I looked up at the guy he was talking to and my mouth dropped open. "Dad"

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A/N: Raise your hand if for a second you thought I was doing the amnesia thing. Ahahaaaaaaa. Sorryyyy. Haha not really. I love Jack he's adorable. I think I'm going to be ending this really soon. i just realized how long it's gotten lol Anway, thanks for reading. Vote and shit. Love yaaaaa xx