I see myself. WHY CAN I SEE MYSELF?! Oh my God. Oh my God. Oh- ok I need to calm
down. Ok… why am I at the hospital? What the heck happened to me. I see my mom. I try to get her attention, but nothing. Emma is next to her. They’re both silent, just sitting. How awkward. They see a doctor walking towards my room and I listen to what he’s saying.
“Your son, he’s in a coma for, I don’t know how long and his injuries, not severe, but bad enough that it caused him to enter in this coma. No internal bleeding and everything else, fine for now.”
“Oh thank God,” said my mom. She let out a sigh and you can tell weight was lifted off her shoulder.
“I am so relieved. Th-” The doctor cut my mom off.
“However y-”
“However? What do you mean however?”
“Your son. We would like to-”
I can’t hear them anymore, why can’t I hear them? And why are they getting blurry? Oh no. No. No. NO!

Grace’s POV

“Your son. We would like to do a little experiment on him”
“Experiment? You actually think I’m going to let you experiment on my son?”
“Just hear me out. Please we would like to use him as a test subject, it’s a bit difficult to explain. Hmm..you see, the experiment is that we need someone who is in a coma-”
“My son.”
“Yes, your son. We want to give him a shot that can possibly wake him up. Our scientists have done some research for the past hundred years, maybe even longer. We believe we have something that can wake a person up from a coma.”
“What happens if he doesn't wake up?” said Emma.
“We were hoping that doesn't happen.” said Connors.
“And-and you just expect us to to go along with that?” said Emma.
“We’ll we aren't forcing you to make the decision. Emma, right? I-”
I cut him off because right now, I know we need to get Derek back. Now.
“Deal.”
“What?” said Connors and Emma simultaneously.
“Emma we are doing this. Yes, will Derek be ok though?”
“If it works then yes, he will be just fine.”
“And if not?”
“The possibilities are endless.We-we don’t know.”
“Ok he’ll do it. You better hope this works or else.”
“Yes-yes ma’am we’ll do the best we can.”
I’m so thankful to have known Connors since I was a girl. He’s helped us so much, no matter how much I yell at him in situations like this. Dr.Connors left at 2:26. It is now 5:12. I haven’t left Derek's side since the moment the school called me two days ago. I was crying so hard that I could barely see where I was driving. Once I saw him go right into the emergency room, my heart dropped completely. I was broken. No, I am broken. If he doesn't survive than I have no reason to live. I didn't even know my own son was getting bullied. I have to change everything. First I’ll start off by kicking Marcus out of both our lives.

Narrator's POV
It takes Grace five minutes to gather her stuff, three minutes to rush from Derek’s hospital room to the parking lot out front and fifteen minutes to drive home. While driving home Grace dials 911 on her new iPhone 67 and tells them everything about Marcus. She sits in her car for another ten minutes to wait for the cops to come help for backup. Grace talks to her house.
“Martha please open the front door.” said Grace.
“Opening front door.” said Martha.
Grace walks in casually and starts to yell.
“Marcus? Marcus? Marcus where are you? We need to talk! MARCUS!”
No answer. Grace looks in the kitchen. Nothing. Living room. Nothing. Upstairs. Nothing. Restrooms. Nothing “Where can he be?” whispered Grace to herself. “Oh my god why didn't I think of this sooner? Of course!”
She ran to her car and drove sixteen blocks to a sports bar with the cops right behind her. She jumps out the car and rushed into the bar. It was loud. Very loud. Everyone was screaming at the giant screen right in front of them. She squints her eyes looking around the room. She stops as soon as she spots Marcus. He was wearing a Packers jersey and was drunk. He held his beer up high cheering. Grace turns and faces the undercover cop.“I don’t think I can do this anymore. He’s drunk and he gets very abusive when I interrupt him.”
“It’s going to be ok. Why do you think we’re here? We came to help you. If anything happens don’t worry we’ll come help you.”
Grace inhales, nods her head and walks towards Marcus.
“Hey, b****. What are you doing here? You should be at home cooking me dinner.” says Marcus while swinging his beer around.
“I’m done. We’re done. Whatever the f*** this is, its done.”
Marcus chuckles and says,”You don’t get to decide anything here. Now go home and cook me some god damn FOOD!”
“No!”
Everyone and everything fell silent, including the tv.
“What did  you tell me?”
“ I said NO! I am so sick of this s***! You bossing me around, me listening, abusing not only me, but my son! I am tired of this. It needs to STOP NOW!”
Marcus throws his beer across the room and grabs Grace by her little neck. She’s struggling to get free and he won’t let go.

Grace’s POV
I can’t breathe. It hurts so bad. My tiny arms are nothing of help compared to his massive ones.Where the hell are the cops. I try to look around, but I can’t. The only thing I’m forced to look at is his eyes. They’re so dark, like I’m falling  into a pit full of darkness and there is no escape. I start to black out, I see a variety of colors replacing the bar. I can’t breathe at all. Narrator's POV
The police rush inside the bar and hit Marcus from behind to make him release Grace. Once he lets go she drops to the ground and starts to gasp for air. The undercover cop rushes to Grace and picks her up and drives her to the hospital. Once they arrive she rushes to see Derek. Her eyes are glossy and shes about to cry.
“I did it baby boy,” she paused “We’re free. We’re going to be okay now. I promise.”
She kissed him on the forehead and started to cry.
“Please come back Derek. I need you.”
Grace is now sitting next to Derek sleeping while Dr.Connors walks in.
“Hey, Grace.” he starts to shake her, trying to wake her up. “Grace.”
Grace mumbles and stretches to wake herself.
“Dr.Connors,” she says as she rushes to her feet “I am so sorry.”
“Grace, please there is no need to apologize.”
“You’re right.” she smiles at him
“I have it right here.”
He hangs up a bag beside him and inside it was a needle composed of orange liquid.
“Is that-”
“Yes it is. Would you prefer to do this now or in the morning?”
“Now. Please. I need to see my son. I need to know that he’s alright, that he’s going to be alive.”

“Ok, but we can’t do it here. There is this secret laboratory across town that we are required to go to, for experiences.”
“Ok let’s go.”
It takes them thirty minutes to arrive at the secret laboratory. Grace looks around the building when she is inside. The outside is hidden, but the inside has more technology than she has seen her whole life. The walls are gray and there are elevators everywhere.
“This way please.” says Connors while gesturing his hand to the left hallway.
The hallway was long and white everywhere.Connors walks into room 38A. There are two people waiting for them.
“Hi! Nice to meet you, I’m Dr.Robertson, but you can call me Sandra.” said the one on the left.
“Hello. I’m Dr.Howard, Nice to finally meet you.” said the man on the right.
“Nice to meet the both of you. I’m Grace.”
“Dr.Connors, the patient?” said Howard.
“Right he’s on his way.”
“Perfect.”
A knock on the door appeared and Derek is on a gurney a woman is behind it, bringing him in.
“Thank you Kristy. That’ll be all.” said Sandra.
She nods and walks away.
“Ok are you guys ready?”
“Not quite.” says Howard across the room. He’s grabbing a camera, then sets it up across from us.“Okay, ready.”
Howard starts speaking into the camera.
“Hello this is Dr.Robertson, Dr.Connors, Grace, test subject Derek and myself, Dr.Howard. This right here will wake anyone up from a coma. I will now inject this into Derek’s left arm. Now, we wait to see how long it is until he wakes up. Thank you.”
It takes two hours until it woke up Derek.
“Oh my gosh! It worked!” said Dr. Robertson
Grace runs up to Derek hugging him tight while crying.
“Uh-Mom? Are you ok?”
“Yes, yes I’m perfectly fine now that you’re here.”
“Uh-Where did I go?”
“You were in a coma sweetheart.”
“Oh my god!”
“I’ll tell you what you missed on our way home.”
“Congratulations to you both.” said Dr.Howard.
“Thank you so much! All of you! I don’t know how I can repay you.”
“You don’t have to, really, you helped us.”
Derek and Grace drove home and she told him everything.

Derek started to go to school a week later feeling more confident than ever before. He did his morning routine and then school started. He went to his classes and then lunch arrived. Billy was walking down the hallway with his crew and started to pick on Derek.
“Leave me alone Billy! Don’t ruin my day.”
“I heard I made you go to the hospital.”
“Yeah, so?”
“So, I take it you don’t want me to do it again.”
“I honestly could care less on what you do you’re irrelevant to me so please go away.”
“No, faggot. You don’t tell me what to do.”
“Oh that’s funny because I think I just did.”
Billy punched Derek in the face and he dropped to the floor. Derek used his legs to trip Billy and he landed on the water fountain. Everyone stared at him. Billy ended up in the hospital and died later that night because his head injury was so severe. Ever since that moment everything changed. Emma stopped talking to Derek and turns out Derek is the new Billy. Ever since Billy died, his old crew needed someone to look for as a leader and they thought who was better to replace him than the person who killed him? Derek. Derek got worse over the years, he bullied people so bad that they would kill themselves. First it was one person then it got worse, along with his anger issues.
Derek’s POV
After my mother died after graduation I started going crazy. I know that no matter how many times I bullied someone, that it would just lead to death, so my “solution” was to get it over with and kill them instead. I then created an army who killed everyone in their path, they ended up doing that until the army killed everyone on the planet. I felt that I  needed to kill in order for my pain to disappear. I know that killing is bad. I know its wrong, but after I ended up dropping a bomb where my soldiers were. Yup. I’m alone on planet earth. I killing is bad. I know its wrong, but after I ended up dropping a bomb where my soldiers were. Yup. I’m alone on planet earth. I didn't see this coming. After I took that thing that woke me up from my coma I've gone insane. You wanna know  what sucks too?  I was the only one who went crazy. Maybe all my hatred towards Billy and Marcus made me go crazy. I didn't want anyone to hurt me, so I ended up doing the worst thing alive killing everyone. Now I’m going to kill me too.

didn't see this coming. After I took that thing that woke me up from my coma I've gone insane. You wanna know  what sucks too?  I was the only one who went crazy. Maybe all my hatred towards Billy and Marcus made me go crazy. I didn't want anyone to hurt me, so I ended up doing the worst thing alive killing everyone. Now I’m going to kill me too.
 

I woke up drenched in my own sweat. That was the worst dream I’ve ever had in my entire life. What a nightmare..