Chapter 1,
6 Days after prologue
6/29/07
Beep. Beep, beep. Beep. I turned my head, blindly searching for my alarm clock to shut it off. “Uuuggghhhmmph,” I groaned.
I slowly opened my eyes, still groping around trying to find the source of the beeping. My bedroom wasn’t like I remembered it. Where had my night table gone? In its place was a large machine with a monitor covered in squiggly green lines. Where my pile of last week’s laundry should have been was a large mass of colorful balloons and a dozen stuffed animals. One of the balloon’s read “Get Well Soon!” and a giant purple teddy bear was holding an over-sized card covered in a bunch of signatures. What was going on? Where was all my stuff? Why did it smell like----
“Good morning sunshine!” said a sugary voice. I quickly looked around. The voice seemed to be coming from a young looking blonde woman with a clipboard in her hands. Her perfectly manicured fingers were gripping a bright pink pen that was whizzing across her paper. It made my head hurt. “Are you feeling any better?”
“Better?” I said, puzzled. “I was never bad! Why would I be---” All of a sudden everything came back to me. The graduation day dance, the thunderstorm, Delilah’s smiling face right before the car crash, everything. My head suddenly felt very heavy. I looked at the nurse and said, “Where’s Delilah?”
“I’m sorry honey but---“
“Where’s Delilah?” I said in a quiet, firm voice.
"Honey, she's.....gone."
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