If I Go

Chapter 4

At first, all I saw was blackness. But then my vision cleared up and I could see Chloe and Kevin, huddling around me. I saw a crowd forming. "Hey Chole!" I called to her. "I'm alright!" 

But Chloe doesn't answer me. She tuened to Kevin. "We need to call 911 right now!" 

"She's fine," Kevin replied. "I'm going to go get another beer." He then stalked away towards the keg. 

Chloe groaned. She then turned back to me and whispered, "You're going to be alright. I think you just fainted or passed out or something." 

"I'm alright," I said again. I then realized that no one could hear me, or see me. I could only see them and hear them. I am not in my body. I could see me on the floor, very pale and my eyes closed. I could see everyone, but they can't see me. I could see an overview of everything that is going on around me. Does that make sense? Probably not... 

I could see an ambulance pulled up in the parking lot and the paramedics running in with a stretcher. I saw Chloe, who was close to tears as they hauled me off and into the ambulance. Chloe ran out of the club, got in her car, and drove to follow me to the hospital. 

Once there, I was still on the stretcher. There were a cluster of nurses wheeling me into the ER. Chloe ran in after me, but the nurses got to her and told her that she had to wait in the waiting room or come back in the morning. Furious, Chole went to sit down in the waiting room. I heard the slam of the hospital doors and turned to see who was coming in.

It wasn't just my parents that walked through those doors. It was also Gaven.

I turned away from them and followed the nurses that were pulling me into the ER. One of the nurses closed the double doors behind them. They put me down on a table thing, and went to work. They did X-rays on my body, to see if there was anything in it that would have caused me to faint.  One of the nurses went to the waiting room to retrieve my parents.

The nurse then sent them into an office type room and then went back to get my X-rays.

"Hi, Mr. and Mrs. Collins I am Loretta, your daughter's nurse," Nurse Loretta announced. "I took some X-rays and it turns out that she went to a club with her friend and drank too much beer. The beer did not only have just beer in it. It had some over-the-counter drugs in it too." Nurse Loretta explained. "We can't specifically define what the drugs are, all we know is that she drank some beer mixed with drugs in it.

My Mom winced. 

"So what happens now?" My Dad asked worriedly.

"Well," Nurse Loretta began. "We are trying to take that stuff out of her, but it's more difficult than it sounds."

"Okay, then." Dad replied shakily. My Mom took his hand and together they walked out of the office. My Dad had tears in his eyes as my Mom tried to console him. I was kind of surprised that she wasn't crying and my Dad was. 

My parents then entered the waiting room area, my Dad grabbed a bunch of tissues on the way. Chloe tried to act nonchalant, checking her phone, and looking around the room. When she saw Gaven right next to her, flipping through month-old magazines, her expression turned into a disgusted one. She then glanced at my parents. "How is she?" 

Dad blew his nose as Mom explained the whole thing to Chloe and Gaven, who looked up from the magazine that he was reading. 

Chole reached over and put a hand on top of my Mom's. "Don't worry," Chloe reassured her. "Natalie will be okay."