Phase 3

Chapter 2

I woke up in a white room, In a white bed with white all around me. I looked over and saw Michael sleeping in the chair. "Michael" I said in a hoarse voice, I was stunned by the way my voice sounded. Michael woke up and in the blink of an eye he was right next to me. "Yea what do you want?" "Why am I in a hospital bed?" I asked. "Well umm... I don't know how to say this. When they brought your mom out in the bodybag you kinda passed out and stabbed yourself in the stomach."

"What! I did, How?" "Well.." he started "When you saw your mother dead you got a knife from the kitchen and you were going to kill your self. Good thing I talked you out of it though." "Oh." I said feeling ashamed of myself. "What time is it?" "It's eleven in the afternoon." I went silent then remembered that we were only fourteen and still in school. "Wait aren't you supposed to be in school?" "Yea, I guess but your dad, well step dad, said I could skip school for a day. Plus you're way more important to me that school is." I closed my eyes after that.

"Michael..."

"Yea."

"Thanks."

"Your welcome." I went to sleep for about five minutes and then the nurse came in.

"Your father would like to see you now" she said. "Ok." I said. My step dad came in and saw me and started to cry. "I'm sorry, I am so sorry." "For what?" I asked. "For not being here for you when you needed me most." I just looked at him. "Brian, don't be sorry, I'm still here thanks to Michael." Brian lifted his head "What do you Mean?" "Well Brian When I saw mom I tried to kill myself but Michael stopped me in time, and thats why I had that knife in my hand." Brian looked dumbfounded, "oh" he just looked at Michael for about five minutes. Then all of a sudden Brian gave Michael a hug. Michael's eyes grew big and he just looked at me. I started laugh but it hurt to much to so I just smiled. "Thank You." Brian said. When Brian let go of Michael he turned to me. "Conny I have something to tell you."

"What is it Brian?"

"I really don't want to tell you because you'll get mad."

"Ok, You're making me mad by not telling me."

"Ok fine I'll tell you, I have been cheating on you mother." I layed there too shocked to say anything. finally I said something that I should have said a long time ago. "Get Out!" I mumbled "What did you say Conny?" "I said GET OUT!! GET OUT GET OUT GET OUT!!"

I heard the door open. A tall, pretty, brown haired woman walked in "Whats wrong honey?" She was talking to Brian. "Who are you?" I asked with hatred in my voice. "I am Vea, Brian's girlfriend." Rage filled me "GET OUT!" I screamed so loud that the bed I was laying in shook. Brian looked at me shocked and Vea pulled him outside of the door. God how I hate them now. Michael look like a

scared little kid when he looked at me.

"What's the matter?" I asked. "Well since you just shook the whole building with that scream I think I have a right to be scared." "I shook the whole building." I asked amazed at myself. "Yep." Brian came in and started to say something but I didn't hear him because I was too busy telling him to shut up and

go away. I hate him, He cheated on my mom so how can I know that he really cares about me. "Conny, you know he cares about you don't you?" It was

almost like he was reading my mind. "No I don't know if he cares about me, think about it he cheated on my mom Michael, She was the only blood family that I had left!" I started to say something else when the doctor came in.

"Conny you can be released from the hospital, but I want you to stay out of school for another two days and rest, ok." "Ok" I said with agitation in my voice. When the doctor left I started to say that I hated Brian but I fell silent because of the look that Michael gave me. "I'm going to stay with you while you rest so I can get you food and stuff like that while your father... I mean Brian is at work." I look at him like he was crazy. "No you're not, you're going to march your happy but to school, I can take good care of myself." Now he was getting angry, so angry that I could see in his eyes. "Ok I'm going to go to school and risk the chance that the people that killed your mother come back to kill my best friend. Not going to happen. You don't have a choice in the matter." I just stared at him amazed. I've never seen him so protective of somebody before.

Brian walked in because he heard Michael argueing with me. "Conny I think it will be a wonderful idea to keep Michael at the house." I wanted to get up and smack him for dropping in on us. I really hate Brian, I hate his guts. "Brian you need to stop dropping in on us, it gets really annoying." I was trying to be as calm as I could. "You're my daughter it's kinda hard not to drop in on a conversation that my daughter is having with a boy." I lost it then. "You know what Brian, I'm not your daughter, and you don't have to worry about me anymore because I'm never going to listen to you, I hate you, and besides how could I trust someone who cheated on my mom, oh and I hate your little girlfriend too, I can never love a person that cheated on my mom!" Brian and his girlfriend just stood there like they were in a movie and the movie was paused. "Just get out of here Brian. You too Vea."

Brian and Vea just stood there so I told the nurse to get those two love birds out of my room. The doctor came in and told me I needed to stay one more day just to see how the wound was doing. I tried to go to bed but I couldn't. The reason being is that Michael was in the room watching me 'sleep'. It's kinda weird. I was also afraid to go to sleep because I thought I would have that same dream again. Then I heard the door opening.