Static by Tawny Stokes

Author:Tawny Stokes
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Vivi Anna
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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Considering what I'd been through in the past week, it didn't surprise me that my dreams were disturbed.

I was in a hospital, walking down a long, narrow, deserted hallway. The walls were glaringly white as was the floor and the ceiling. I had an urge to shield my eyes as I walked. I looked into every room I passed, but every bed was empty. Barren, devoid of anything resembling life. I came to the end of the hall and looked into the last room.

This bed wasn't empty.

Cautiously, I entered the room and approached the bed. My stomach cramped. My throat ran dry. I knew who was going to be lying on the hard clinical mattress.

Eyes closed, face gaunt and pale, Josh lay strapped to the bed, an IV stuck into the back of his hand. There was little resemblance to the golden boy of Boise High in the immobile concave form. He looked like he'd aged seventy years and his bones could no longer sustain any muscularity. He was a skeleton of his former self.

And I'd done that to him. It was my fault.

I stood over him, watching him breath in and out with the help of an oxygen tube. I wondered when he'd wake up and if he'd still be Josh, still have his memories. Or if he'd forget everything, including himself. I wasn't sure what I wished for most. Either way the life I knew was over.

A single tear rolled down my cheek, off my chin and landed on Josh's thin blue lips.

His eyes snapped open.

Stumbling back, I nearly knocked over the IV pole.

His hand lifted from his side, reaching for me. I grabbed it and squeezed, frantic for him to wake up. "Josh? Josh? Can you hear me?"

He opened his mouth to respond. It gaped wide but all that came out was deafening garbled static...

Clamping my hand to my ears, I stumbled backwards and screamed.

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