Chapter Seven
“Come Back”
It had been three weeks since Rachel had fallen into her coma. Her
family and friends were worried, but her boyfriend Jake had become obsessed with
the situation and started having awful, wretched nightmares. He lost sleep over these, and with every night, they became worse, more gruesome. More detailed... What he didn’t know was that
his dreams were insights to what was going on in Rachel’s head. He watched her
die. He watched her being raped. He watched her as she began to lose herself
and what reality she had left.
Every day he would
visit her in the hospital and stay all day long. He talked to her as if she
were conscious to hear him. He hoped something he said would get through to her
and help her awake from this horrible slumber.
“I really wish you
would say something back to me. Valentine’s Day is in a few days. You’d really
like what I have planned for us, baby. I know you’ll love it! I would tell you
what it is but that would ruin the surprise…. I love you very much.”
With every passing
day Jake became more worried, more obsessed and more foolishly, hopelessly hopeful.
He forced himself to believe that he would be the one to bring her out of the
coma, so they could be a happy couple once again.
