I woke up to soft light pressing against my eyelids. There was a soft murmuring sound of people talking but it felt very distant. I was awake but still in a deep sleep. It was not a sleep of tiredness but a sleep of giving up. I felt so dead inside I didn't even want to return to the reality. It was as if a lifeless body laid there on the hospital bed. But then among the whispering I heard the names.
"William"
"Jackson"
"Barbara Jones"
At the last name, I forced my eyes open. Barbara Jones? That was the name of my birth mother.
I looked over to the people huddled up in the corner and realizing I was not on the ventilator anymore, I spoke up.
"What's going on?"
They all snapped their head towards me. There was Brandon, Kevin, Angela and dad.
"Oh Ade!" Angel ran up to me, "how are
