Perception of Life by Shandi Boyes

Author:Shandi Boyes
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub, mobi
Published: 2016-02-27T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 25

Emily

“Just give her a few more hours. She will wake up when she is ready” says a stern female voice quietly in the distance.

I feel like I am in a dream, I don’t know where I am and I am not sure how I got here, but my eyelids are so heavy, they won’t let me wake up. I can feel Noah’s hand gripping my hand tightly and I want to open my eyes to look at him but I can’t. My head really hurts too; it feels like someone is sitting in my brain with a hammer pounding the shit out of it. It’s ten times worse than the hangover I had after Jenni and I got drunk drinking a whole wine cask at Phillips eighteenth Birthday party. But I don’t remember drinking anything last night? Or did I? My memory feels blurred. I remember Noah picking me up from school but I can’t recall what happened after that.

I have to wake up, maybe I have fallen asleep on the drive back to Ravenshoe and I am currently dreaming. Wake up Emily wake up. I don’t want to miss Noah performing for the music executives tonight but I can feel the blackness slowly closing in and then everything goes black.

“I don’t fucking care” Noah yells angrily, I can still feel his hand gripped around mine. I wonder what is making Noah upset, if only I could wake up to comfort him. Wake up Emily, Noah needs you! But all I see again is blackness.

I slowly open my eyes to look around and notice that I am in a small room with white walls all the way around me. I am lying in a bed and I can hear the faint beeping of machines next to me. Noah is sitting in hard plastic blue chair leaning forward with his head resting against the bed. He appears to be sleeping, but you can see his sleep seems disturbed as he keeps twitching his arms and squinting his eyes. My throat feels so dry and I look around the room hoping to find a glass of water. There is a water jug and a cup on the table next to my bed, I just need a little bit of water to help stop the burning feeling inside my throat. I need to reach the water jug but I don’t want to wake up Noah as he looks tired and I want him to get some rest. So I try to reach the table using my left arm, but the darn table is just out of reach. A large hand lifts the jug and pours some water into the cup. I am so thirsty you would think I haven’t had anything to drink for years. I look up and see Jacob’s concerned eyes staring back at me as he continues to fill up the cup with water.

“Holy shit Emily you scared us half to death” yells Jacob. Well I don’t actually know whether he was yelling or not, but my pounding headache made it sound like he was.

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