Antiseptics and medicine's smells sting my nose, my head throbs with overwhelming pain. People's crowded faces over me and their eyes piercing into mine questioning, I try to focus on one of the faces but I can't see the face clearly only the ocean blue eyes, and then suddenly all the faces disappear, only a wolf's face over me its eyes blue. It comes near me but I don't feel fear , I lay there and close my eyes, I feel something moist on my cheek – the wolf licked me.
"EW" I sit up with a sudden jolt, thousand needles in my head and back sting me, bright white lights blind me, and I shut my eyes tight.
"Lie back down" A force pushes me back down and my head falls on the soft feather pillow. After a second or two I open my eyes slowly and Zavier's face right above mine I scream aloud still traumatized from the dream.
"Shh" he places his hand on my mouth. "Why are you screaming?"
"Mmmmhmm" I speak but my voice comes out muffled; I look down at his hand on my mouth.
"Oh" he removes and a breath escaped my mouth I hadn't realized I was holding. I look around the plain white room a small window on the left wall, a bright white blinding light on the front wall; I look below at myself half covered in white sheet. My hand covered in needle and Band-Aids; connected to a beeping monitor I look at my right to see Zavier's face.
"Where are we?" I question him with a sigh.
"In the hospital" my eyes widen in shock
"What are we doing here in the HOSpital" I whisper shout.
"You fainted" he shrugs as if it was nothing why doesn't he understand. What if they find out, ugh?
"You could have spilled water on me, or you know slapped me or anything else, why did you have to bring me at the hospital" I whine throwing questions at him.
"What makes you think I didn't do all of that" he rolls his eyes.
"The fact that I am laying here in this hospital" I argue back.
All of a sudden the door opens and hits hard on the wall, diverting our attention towards it; my mom stands there, in her doctor's coat stethoscope hanging around her neck.
"Sweetheart you are awake" she runs towards me and pulls me in an extreme hug, tears in her eyes. That's what I was talking about – overreaction- this is just one step. I look at Zavier pleading with my eyes- he is no more sitting on that seat beside my bed he is standing at the end of the bed- he is trying so bad to hold his laughter.
My mom breaks the hug and then takes a good look at me. "what were you thinking huh, you really like to see your mom cry don't you, why don't you ever listen to us, I told you not to go, but you never listen do you, if it wasn't for this young man" she points at Zavier who straightens and gives an innocent smile to my mother and I shoot daggers at him with my eyes only if eyes could kill " we don't know what would have happened to you" she wipes a tear- now that's step two I was talking about.
"Mom calm down, why are you worrying about what would have happened to me" I spread my arms and say "see I am perfectly fine nothing happened to me"
"Don't talk back to me young lady, you are grounded for the next week until you get well and if you don't listen to me you are grounded for life do you understand" now that's step three of what I was talking about.
"But mom that's unfair"
"I am not taking any buts I'll call your dad" she left and closed there door, I stared at it for a moment that whether I should kill myself or Zavier cause my mom's words aren't gonna change.
Then I look at Zavier who is laughing out loud, I pull my pillow from behind me and hit it directly at him.
"you idiot, this is all because of you who asked you to bring me here, you could have just let me rot there that way even your secret would have also only remained to yourself" he stops his laugh abruptly and looks at me almost angry ah I struck a nerve that's what I wanted to do.
"Do you know how long you were knocked out" he comes back to his seat beside my bed, serious.
"2 hours maybe"
"I brought you to the hospital after two hours"
"What do you mean?"
"you weren't waking up I tried everything, then I brought you here, your parents checked you and everything your mom couldn't stop crying, I asked them what happened they told me your brain was too exhausted to respond and if you didn't wake up in 24 hours you will go in coma, they didn't understand what was wrong with you your temperature won't go down, I came inside your room when your parents were busy. Color had left your cheeks, your hands were burning more than ever, I held them for some time and your temperature went back to normal. And there was some progress in your condition you are awake exactly after one day." I didn't know whether to thank him for saving me or slap him for getting me grounded- I guess I'll just thank him right now.
"Thank you "he turns towards me with a shock on his face.
'Did you just thank me?"
"Why can't I do that?"
"No I just thought you were too arrogant to say thank you"
"I take back my thank you"
"I am not giving it back to you"
I scoff at his words avoiding the urge to roll my eyes."I have already taken it back you can stay with this misunderstanding that you have it" he chuckles lightly; I slip back down on the bed and close my eyes only to realize there is no pillow. I extend my hand my eyes still close "pillow'.
And before I know it's already under my head, I slip back to the dream world hoping for better dreams this time.