Elizabeth could feel them there everyday. Elaine and Jamie. She heard their voices, felt their hands take a hold of her good one while they talked about things happening at school or about how worried they were that she may not come back to them. Elizabeth could feel and hear all of this, she just couldn't seem to react. She didn't have the strength to respond in any sort of way; be it through a simple squeeze of someone's finger or a spoken sentence.
However, on the fourth day Elizabeth managed to actually wake up. After all the resting that she had done the past three days, she finally managed to fight unconsciousness and woke up shortly after Elaine and Jamie had walked in that afternoon. When she first woke up, she didn't open her eyes just yet, wanting to listen to the sounds in the
