Ella:
"Hey, girl, What's wrong?"
One of my friends asked from behind startling me. "Nothing, Have you seen Ethan today in the assembly?" I asked her trying to get any information about Ethan.
Ethan has been becoming mysterious day by day. Since the last time he visited me, he was completely fine but after that, he had started acting strangely and so as Oliver.
In Lunchtime, I was using my mobile phone in the bathroom mostly calling and sending messages to Ethan but no reply at all.
As I was supposed to leave the bathroom one of the cleaner ladies caught me and then I was sent straight to the Principal's office. F**k, can't this day gets worse.
I cursed myself in the mind as I was walking to the Principal's office door. After suspending me from the school for a whole week, and scolding me Finally Principal let me go but before I could turn she stood up from her chair and all the envelopes on her desk fell down because of her disbalance.
I immediately bent down as I started collecting all those envelopes and keeping them back on the table neatly instead of the fact that she had just suspended me for a week. While collecting all the envelopes, my eyes paused on one of the envelopes named "Ethan"
I widened my eyes as I looked at the Principal and stuttered. "This.." "Oh, This poor child Ethan. He had fallen into a coma out of a sudden and won't be able to attend school now.
His parent just sent me the copy of his health report to submit." The Principal said sadly as I felt like someone has hit me hard.
I stared at her face and then the envelopes feeling dizzy, I stumbled but took the hold of the chair to stable myself quickly. I left her office trying to be as calm as I could but in reality, I was shaking. Ethan in a coma? When? What happened to him? And also did Oliver know about it?
but why he didn't tell me that?
And If Ethan was in a coma that who was the man in my bed last night? I felt like drumming in my head as I made it through my last class with difficulty. I didn't say anything to Oliver the whole way as we reached home, I quickly changed my uniform and rushed to the hospital to see Ethan..
...
At The Hospital I asked at the reception about Ethan and she instructed me to his room, while I was walking to his room with disbelief seeped all over me.
Near his room, I saw Ethan's parents sitting on the bench. I stood in front of them as I greeted them politely.
"Sir, Madam. I am Ethan's friend." I told them. It's been just a year we started dating and we had decided that after I joined Ethan in the senior academy only then we both will reveal our relation to his parent.
"Ethan's friend?" His mother asked, she looked devastated. "Yeah, I am Oliver's sister. Ella." I told them as they knew about Oliver very well. Oliver and Ethan had been long-term friends.
"Ella?" His mother gaped at me when she heard my name. I felt nervous as I clenched my jacket tightly and nodded my head.
"Yes, that's me."
"Before Ethan fell into a coma, he murmured your name "Ella". She told me and I frowned.
"My name?"
"Since the day he went to stay over at Oliver's place, he had been complaining to us about heaviness in his body. We thought he is just tired from all the party and night overstay so we asked him to rest. But who knows that once he closed his eyes to rest, he won't be opening them again. We tried to wake him up after he slept for a whole day in his room but he didn't move just murmured your name then in the hospital Doctors informed us that he has been slipped into a coma. They are still trying to figure out the cause of his condition but it just seems like something completely unusual to them."
His dad told me while I just kept staring at both of them with my eyes popped out and my mouth widened in shock. I sat on the bench while my hands were holding y head as I started weeping uncontrollably.
Ethan had been telling me there was something wrong with that house but I didn't listen to him at all. I wish I could take his words seriously at that time. I wish I was staying by his side when he complained to me about certain things. I was crying, sobbing heavily when I felt someone's warmth on my shoulder.
"You love him right?" Ethan's mother asked me softly as I nodded with tears in my eyes. "Go and meet him, he didn't respond to us but maybe he will respond to you."
She told me as I stood up gathering the courage to see him I finally twisted the lock and stepped in. Ethan was lying on the bed with multiple tubes on his body and an oxygen mask on his face. He looked pale and weak. I stepped close to him still not believing what I am seeing.
"Ethan," I cried out as I held his hand and stood near him. His hand was iced cold and lifeless, I kissed his hand while my tears were still streaming down making his hand wet from it. I sobbed while holding his hand and then I felt some movement and I paused.
"Ethan" I exclaimed with joy when I felt his fingers moving, trying to give me a response to my words. His face was still calm and pale but as I held his hand in my hand he held it back and made me shocked and excited too.
"Ethan, I am here. Don't worry I will try my best to find out what is wrong with our ancestor's homes. Just stay with me." I whispered to him and then kissed his forehead to soothe him.