Chapter 6

"How's AJ doing?" Nick asked me over the phone.

"He's fine. The nurses said he's slowly improving but he's still not coming
out of the coma.." I told him.

"Oh, well Mr. Littrell is here right now so him and I are going to head
over to the hospital and see him."

"Tell Bri I say hi and tell AJ to get better for me..." I said to Nick.

"Kay, bye." Nick said as I hung up the phone. I slumped back down against
the wall and onto the floor. It had been one week and AJ still hadn't come
out of his coma. The doctors had assured me that this was ok because
sometimes it took patients weeks, months, even years to come out of comas.

But how was I supposed to wait a month, let alone a year. The stress was too
much to handle. I didn't know how to deal with it. Ashley was constantly
harassing me about AJ's condition, and Jess was trying to make me feel
better all the time but I didn't want to feel better, so I snapped at her
and now we're not speaking, my mom and dad understand but they can't help
and Nick just automatically assumes everything will be allright.

The only person I can talk to is Kevin. Just then, I got a sudden urge to talk to
him. I dialed him up and waited for him to pick up...but he didn't.

"Hi, this is Kev, sorry I'm not here to take your call but leave me a
message and I'll gladly call you back. Thank you for calling, goodbye"

"Hi Kev, it's me...Lezlee....I need someone to talk to so if you can call
me back that'd be great. I'll be on my cell. Thanks." I hung up. I had no
one to talk to. I began to cry again. I felt so alone. My tears were the
only thing that comforted me. I sat there and cried till my eyes were red
and sore. I couldn't take it anymore.

I lay my head down on my carpeted floor and fell asleep.

* ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ *

I awoke to the sound of someone tapping on my window.

"AJ?" I mumbled sounding confused. I focused my eyes and saw that it was
Jessie.

"Jess?" I asked as I got up, went over to my window and opened it up and
let her in.

"I'm sorry.." was the first thing she said.

"Why? I was the bitch." I told her. She shook her head.

"No, I shouldn't have bothered you when you were upset."

"Look, it was my fault and I'm sorry,"I said as I looked up at her.

"Me too," she said as the both of us hugged. I never realised how much I
had missed her until that moment.

"Anyways, I have big news!" Jessie told me.

"What?"

"I just talked to Bri and the doctors were watching AJ today and said he
had a lot of brain activity. They think he's going to come out of the coma
soon!"

"Oh my gosh!" I cried. I was so happy/scared/nervous that I started to cry
again. Jessie hugged me until I had calmed down and then the two of us went
down stairs to go to the hospital.

* ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ *

"AJ? Can you hear me?" I asked quietly.

"I dunno E, I think he's still pretty out of it," Brian said.

"AJ.....it's me, Lezlee and Brian's here too. We really miss you," I said
as I picked up his hand.

"AJ! WAKE UP!" Brian yelled into his ear.

"BRI! Don't deafen him!" I told him and pushed him away from the bed. AJ
looked so helpless just sitting there. He looked a lot thinner than normal
but his cuts were defiantly healing and they had removed the bandage from
his head, exposing his red curls. I didn't know how much more of this I
could take.

A week had gone by with me visiting AJ everyday for more than 2
hours at a time and still no response from him. The doctors had said to talk
to him and try to tell him about familiar things in hopes that he would
remember something and it would jolt his mind and cause him to wake up.

"E, I gotta go. I promised Howie I'd help him move the last of his stuff in
with Kev, and then we've gotta rehearse for the hockey game next week" Brian
said as he lay his hand on my shoulder.

"I guess, AJ's accident has really put a cramp in the BSB huh?" I asked.

"Yeah, but it's ok." Bri said as he gave me a quick hug and then turned and
walked through the automatic doors that led out of the ICU.

"AJ," I said softly to the lifeless body that lay in front of me, "Brian
left but he'll be back soon with Kevin and Samantha; you remember her, don't
you? She's Kevin's girlfriend." I told him. He didn't move.

"AJ, honey, wake up," I said trying to fight back tears. I couldn't
understand why he didn't wake up when I talked to him. I had done everything
the doctors had asked us all to do and still he lay there unresponsive.

"I want to stand with you on a mountain
I want to bathe with you in the sea
I wanna lay like this forever
Until the sky falls down on me," I softly sang to him. I had sang to him
all week in hopes that he's wake up.

"I love you AJ, and I want you to wake up soon," I pleaded before I kissed
him softly on the lips and then got up and left.

* ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ *

"Lezlee, you haven't even touched your dinner," my mom said to me as I
rolled a carrot around my plate.

"Honey, I know you're upset about AJ, but that's no reason for you to eat,"
my father told me.

"Why are you acting like a dope?" Lucas asked me.

"Yeah," Hannah chimed in.

"You don't play with me anymore!" Davy said crossing his arms in front of
his chest and pouting.

"You've been acting depressed all week. God, snap out of it," Angie said to
me with a scowl on her face.

"Shut up you little bitch," I yelled. I had, had enough of all of them.

"Lezlee Kaitlin Dawson. Get upstairs now. You're grounded. You can stay in
your room for the rest of the evening and all of tomorrow. That means no
leaving the house, no tv, no phone calls and no going to see AJ," my dad
said as he wiped his mouth with his napkin.

"But dad!" I yelled as I burst into tears.

"No buts, you heard your father," my mom said sternly.

"I hate you all!" I screamed as I threw my fork down and ran upstairs into
my room, locking the door behind me. I fell down onto my bed and sobbed
hysterically.

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