BFF over BF?

Chapter 10

Jay

After dinner, I inform my mom that I’m gonna go walk around the block. I need to clear my head.

“Okay!,” she says, gently smiling at me like she always does. I put on my coat, and walk out the door.

I breathe in the cool air, looking at the sunset.

I look down, and wish that Sophie is here with me, at this moment watching the sunset.

I shake my head, trying to clear the thought as if clearing a whiteboard. Despite that, I had no luck and just thought about if I should start talking to her again.

I snap out of it for just a moment, when I realize that the entire time, there had been a hand, gently placed on my back, as if guiding me.

Where are they taking me?!. I don’t wanna do anything in the case they might have bad intentions. I slowly peek over my shoulder and they look me directly in the eye. OH yeah, they certainly have bad intentions.

What do I do?!.

I have to try to make an escape because if I don’t, this could end badly.

I reach into my pocket, and wrap my hand around my key.

I turn around, and s***h them across the face, and start running. I look back and realize that they aren’t following me, but instead walking in the opposite direction. They clearly got what they wanted.

Pain washes through my torso.

I look down and realized that I’d been slashed from my chest, to just above my hip. Everything starts looking blurry and I realize that I’m laying on the ground. Everything looks fuzzy.

I fumble through my pocket to get my phone, everything darkening by the second.

I emergency dial my mom.

Everything goes black.

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I hear someone quietly saying, “He’s very lucky to have lived,” It starts fading out, as they say, luckily the blade didn’t pierce through to his heart. He also lost quite a—-”.

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My eyes slowly flutter open. I move my head to the side gently because I couldn’t lift it if I wanted to, to see who is sobbing.

“Are you ok?,” I ask Sophie.

She smacks my foot gently, and says, “ you’re asking me that?!. You're the one hurt”.

“You sure you're not more hurt than I am?,” I say with one of my eyebrows raised, while making a funny face.

“Stop,” she says through her giggling. “You lost a lot of blood, and could’ve died.

“But I’m still here, aren’t I?!,” I say, wiggling my eyebrows.

She looks at me with a straight face that says, ‘Really?!. I hadn’t noticed’.

I laugh at her expression, and she joins in.

The door opens, and in comes my Mom, with my Grandma in tow.

“Jay!,” my mom says excitedly, “You’re awake!”.

“Yeah,” I say with a hoarse voice.

“I’m so happy you’re awake. You’ve been asleep for two weeks,” she informs me.

“Two weeks?!?!,” I say with wide eyes in surprise.

“Yup,” Sophie says. “Winter break is over”.

“Then why are you here, and not in school?,” I say in confusion.

“You didn’t think I wouldn’t come visit you?. Did you?. I mean come on who do you think I am?!,” she says as if it was stupid of me to ask.

“I’m so happy we made it in time. I can’t have my grandson dying before me, now can I?,” my grandma says.

“I guess not”. The door opens and walking through the door, is my dad with a tray of food. My mom pressed the call button for help and a nurse walks in a few minutes later.

“Can you please set the bed up a bit?,” she asks. “So he can eat his food?”.

“Sure,” the nurse says, pressing a button on the side of the bed.

When I’m sitting up a bit more, the nurse moves a tray that’s attached to the side of the bed in front of me, to put the food on. My mom grabs the tray from my dad, and places it on the bed tray.

On the tray is soup, some celery and an orange. “Do you need help eating?,” my mom asks. “No,” I say, grabbing the spoon and eating some soup.

I look up and see all eyes on me.

I look around the room and go back to eating, as if this isn’t awkward.

When I go to eat the orange, Sophie says, “Do you want me to peel it?”.

“I can do it,” I say, having already started.

When I finish eating, a nurse comes in and says, “visiting hours are over”.

“Okay,” my grandma says. “Lets get going”.

When they leave the nurse (a guy) says, “It’s time for your sponge bath”.

When he helps me stand, my vision goes black for a moment, until he’s holding me up again. “He holds the call button and says, “ I need some help,”.

In walks another male nurse.

One holds me up, while the other scrubs me down. They slip my gown back on, and lay me back on the bed. One of them puts the bed back down to how it was before I ate, and the other turns off the lights.

I realize how heavy my eyelids are when the lights go off. I drift off to sleep, as my eyes flutter closed.

In my dream, I’m asking Sophie out.

Long story short she rejects me. I’m back at the moment where the person was guiding me. Only this time, when I turn around they aren’t wearing a hood.

I look into their eyes, and realize that that person is Luke. I think he's doing this because he’s mad I asked Sophie out.

I turn with my key and s***h him in the face. He slashes across my chest. Only this time, I’m on the ground and he’s stabbing me repeatedly, my blood splattering. This time, I don't make it.