Fainting Part 2 the Electric Boogaloo
I opened my mouth, eyes darting around the room. Looking from Hailey to Sebastian to Erin and back to Seb.
"I, I didn't mean to be gone for so long." I start by saying. But then my eyes meet with Sebastians.
My breathing quickens and I feel faint. I don't think my body rested enough and I can't remember the last time I ate. All of this with this stress culminated into a situation I never could have prepared for.
I passed out again. Electric boogaloo style.
I fell forward off of the bed vision and hearing going out all at once. I am caught by someone but I'm not sure who.
This is more embarrassing than getting hit by a bus.
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When my body starts to wake up, my hearing is first to come back. Every thing is louder than it really could be real life, like every one screaming all at once into my ears. But at the same time I can understand anything, I have to stop myself from asking them to "speak up" or "say that again".
I open my eyes to see I'm in the room alone, what I'm hearing is from another room. I can try to process what I'll tell the Jeffersons now. Some thing believable and the least likely to get me institutionalized, again. (Dare I say, institutionalized the electric boogaloo?)
I sit up getting my bearings. The room looks like a storage room that is an offshoot of a normal family home. So I'm not in a real hospital.
"Who's fucking home made hospital is this?"
I think to myself.
The floors are grey cement, and the walls are plastered with only a small narrow window at the celling. But the room is filled with hospital equipment, the bed, the IV and all the the standard monitors. And cabinets I can only assume have medical supplies in them.
This feels out of place, they just took everything from a hospital and brought it into a home.
I haven't felt this uneasy in awhile. And I hate it's happening parallel to people I've cared about so much. But I can't be naive.
I lift my self off of the bed and go to one of the cabinets. I carefully look through trying not to misplace anything, and get something sharp.
Out of everyone I've seen so far the only one outwardly suspicious of me, would be Jon. And although I don't like him, he doesn't seem stupid. He would look at the scalpel on the tray near my bed and alert the others if it was missing.
When I find what I'm looking for I put the scalpel into my jackets pocket, and replace everything in the cabinets as well as I can.
I'm only back in the bed for a few short minutes before Erin, Seb, Hailey, and now, Shawn arrive.
Shawn wasn't here when I woke up. And I don't know if he was here when I was brought in. For the most part I know the general reaction of the others of me being back. But I can't help but wonder his.
If he was angry, angry that I left with no word. If he was happy I was alive and relatively safe. Or just indifferent.
"October, how are you feeling?" Was the first this Shawn said to me in five years. He didn't know how uncommon it was to be asked that. He didn't know how bad I truly felt. And he didn't know that how I was feeling was inconsequential to what I would eventually have to tell them.
But it was a very him question. Something very expected from him, and so, something very comforting.
"I'm okay." I said back, eyes watery, lips tight. I doubt they believed me.
"Will you please tell us what is going on? We have been so worried dear." Hailey pleaded. "No matter how crazy, we will believe you. With everything now, how could we not?"
I perked up.
"Everything now?"
In my curiosity I must of said that out loud because Erin giggled. Maybe believing I wasn't being serious.
"Really?" Erin questioned. I nodded back eyes drifting along all of them.
"Explain it to me like I haven't been here at all." I say. Maybe that's to on the nose. But curiously is eating me up inside.
"October, how could you miss the fucking apocalypse?" Sebastian said. Confusion spreading his face and mine. His more fearful, I've lived through so much and I literally can't die so I'm relatively jaded.
Hailey sat next to me on the bed and started running her fingers lightly up and down my back.
"A year or two after you, disappeared, it started. We don't know the first case or where it started because everything shut down so fast. But the first one here was a younger woman. Her eyes turned completely white, she was chanting something, asking people for something before killing some and kissing others. If you were kissed you became one of her, looking for what ever she was."
As Hailey finished her story I couldn't move. How could all this be happening her while I was gone. When I couldn't protect them?
This made me wish so badly my father was here. He would be more help than I ever could.
"So, where were you?" Sebastian says. Patience wearing thin. This made me want to smile. Seeing how little he had changed.
"Promise to believe me?" I asked out into the room, but held eye contact with Sebastian.
A resounding "Yes." Urged me to hurry, to tell them, not make them wait. I breathe in looking into my lap as I began.
"It sounds crazy. But, I'm not from this reality. My dad brought me from different places over the years until it was just me. I ended up here when I was 12, and met you guys. After a few months, the week before the twins birthday was when I jumped to another reality. My dads ability worked different, I think. He could bring me across with him no problem. But I have to die." I looked up and connected eyes with all of the people I held as almost a surrogate family. Hoping and praying they would trust me.
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