Chapter 19

Darkness. It's all I felt and saw. I couldn't open my eyes as much as I wanted to. I could hear quiet, steady beeps somewhere in the distance. For some reason, it didn't feel far. How could they be so close but sound so far away? "When is she going to wake up?" I heard a voice from somewhere. It relieved me to recognize it as Chuck. "It is hard to decipher right now. She hasn't eaten for two weeks. Her heart needed the energy to keep pumping but since she didn't eat, she wasn't giving energy to her heart. It is slowing down. We need to give her nutrients through the IV since she is in a coma. She also lost a lot of blood, almost reaching the lethal amount of blood loss," A female voice explained. I'm in a coma? I asked myself. Ivy was still in the back if my head, refusing to come out. I tried to move; to move anything to signal that I was awake but it was no use. I was paralyzed. I couldn't speak either. It