The place was unbelievably hot and I found it very hard to breathe. There's loud noises coming from the darkness around me and I try to block it out but it's impossible. Why can't I see? Where am I? Where's Roni?

I start to panic as the sounds got louder and when I tried to scream I don't hear a sound. It's like my throat is locked or refusing to work for me. My heart rate increases and so does the sounds I hear. There's a beeping, the only distinct sound that I can make out. It's the loudest in the set and it's getting closer. When the sound gets unbearable my eyes fly open and I see a man standing over me saying things that I'm yet to hear.

He starts to kiss my face and hand and I want to talk but my voice is still gone. I look around the room as more people enter and that was when I notice just how bright the place was and how white the walls looked. There's machines all around me and I recognize one that beeps along with my heart. Where was I?

One of the people in the room come up to me and shines a bright light in both of my eyes. I want to yell at him but still, no voice.

"Hi, my name is Dr. Vic... Can you hear me?"

I continue to stare up at him.

"Blink once for yes and twice for no."

I blink once.

"Good. Do you know where you are?"

Blinked twice.

"Or what happened?"

Thought about it but then blinked twice.

"You're in a hospital. You had a terrible accident and we had to put you in a medically induced coma but you're fine now."

I continue to look up at him.

"I'm going to take these tubes out of your mouth and nose so you can talk okay?"

I blink once.

He reaches forward and pulls the plastic tubes out and I want to puke and cough but nothing happens. I gulp for air when he sticks something over my nose and I'm greatful.

"Where-" I croak out but that's all I can manage.

"It's unwise to try and talk now. I'll get you some water and you'll rest until tomorrow okay? Then you can try talking."

I look up at him but stay quiet. It did hurt to talk so I didn't. He walks out and the nurses in the room place something in my tubes before joining him. I think it's to make me sleep. Just as my eyes are about to close I see my parents come in with Roni.

My mind goes blank at the sight of her. She looked a bit slimmer than I remembered but she was still as beautiful. There was a sling around her left hand along with a bandage around her head and I wondered what happened. I go to call her name but it felt like my throat was rubbing sand every time I tried to talk.

She stands at the door while my parents came closer and talked things that I didn't pay attention too. My eyes stayed fixed on Roni but she looked at her feet. Why was she avoiding me? I wanted her to look at me, I needed her too. I needed to see those chocolate eyes of hers and see the way she bit her lips when she knew I was staring at her. Why was she acting so out of sorts?

Did she blame herself for putting me here? Was it her fault? I didn't even care at this point, I just wanted her to look at me. I reached up with weary hands and pulled the obstruction from my nose. For a second it was hard to breathe and I had to blink away the pain but I still managed to utter her name before my mom was once more reattaching it.

"Sweetheart you heard what the doctor said, please don't do that."

I ignored her as I watched Roni. She heard me call to her and her eyes fluttered to mine. If my heart wasn't so weak I knew it would have stopped. She looked so beautiful that all I wanted to do was wrap her in my arms and kiss away her fears. She smiled at me and I'm sure my heart did stop. Pushing herself off the door she came closer before I saw my mom shoot daggers at her. She steps back before nodding at me and walking out.

Wait! No! Why did she leave me? What did my mother do?!

Before I had a chance to spit fire at her the medication took me for a spin. My eyes started drooping and the room started spinning. Before long I gave in to the inevitable darkness.

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I awoke to the quiet beeping of my machine and I looked around to see another day had passed. The afternoon nurse fixes my bed and room, checks my vitals and then smile at me before leaving. I'm hungry but the only way I could eat is through a tube that's attached to me. I can't even taste it, all I know is that it 'fills me up'. I groan inwardly as I missed the taste of a nice fat burger and fries or some nice pasta. I groaned again before the door opened and in walked Brian and Michelle.

"Hey girl." Michelle says to me and I smile up at her.

"How ya feeling sugar plum?" Brian asks just before sitting at the edge of my bed.

"Well-" I took a deep breath and continued. My voice was back but it still hurt. "I sound like an ass but I'm fine."

"Does it hurt? The surgery?" Michelle asks.

"You mean my stitches and this really nasty cut down my tummy?" I ask, showing it to them.

They both come closer and gently touch it before Michelle starts to cry. She's such a big baby. Brian turns sorrowful eyes towards me and I roll my eyes at both of them.

"I'm not dead you know." I croak out.

"I'm sorry Carr." Brian says and a tear slips down his cheek.

"What?"

"It's all my fault. If only I'd known that Anthony-"

"Okay, stop right there. First of all, don't say his name and secondly, it's not your fault. You didn't stab me and you definitely didn't put me in here." I take a deep breath as I finished.

"Yeah but-"

"Brian." I warned.

"Fine."

"Where's Roni?" I watch as Michelle looked at Brian and he looked at her. They both avoided my glare.

"Do you want me to ask again or do you guys just love to watch me in pain?"

Still, nothing.

"Brian?" I pleaded.

"Why must I always be the bearer of bad news?"

"What bad news? What happened?" I looked at both of them but they were quiet. I swear I was gonna have a heart attack by the time I was done with them.

"Brian." I begged.

"Alright fine." He groaned and threw up his arms in defeat. "Your mom caught her and Darcy arguing about you and then she found out about your accident and then she found out you're into girls and then she threatened Ron to stay away from you. Jeez, you happy now?"

"What?"

"Please don't make me repeat it."

"My parents banned Roni from seeing me? They can't do that-"

"Did you just here what I said? They know you're a lesbian Carr."

"They banned Roni from seeing me! Argh the nerve of those people." I started coughing and the nurses ran into the room to get rid of them and to check up on me.

I allowed the nurses to tend to me as thoughts of my family plagued my mind.

How dare they!