Why Me

I can hear people talking around me, but I can’t open my eyes. I can’t decipher exactly what they are saying. But I do recognize Adam and Steph’s voices.

I’m lying down somewhere, but I can’t remember where I am. All I can remember is stepping out of my plane and everyone staring at me. Then nothing. ‘Where am I?’

I try to move, but when I do, the terrible pain comes back to my side. I wince. I think they saw me, because their voices come closer. I can now understand them.

“I’m worried about her Steph. She looked like she was in a lot of pain.” Adam says.

“Ya, there was a lot of blood, I hope she’ll be alright with all that blood loss.”

“Well she’s been like this for about 2 weeks now. I just hope she’ll come through.”

“Same. Hey, I’m going to go to lunch. Do you want me to bring you anything?” Steph asks.

“No thanks.”

Steph walks out the room. I reel cold. ‘Where am I? What’s going on?’ Adam then puts a blanket on me. I guess he could tell I’m cold. Adam then kisses my forehead, and sits down.

‘I can’t believe it. Steph was right. He really does like me.’

I then hear something I don’t like at all. I hear Adam cry.

“I can’t believe this happened. And to someone this young and beautiful. No, she’s not that young, but she’s still younger than me. I hope she will be alright. I hope she come’s through. If she doesn’t, I don’t know what I’ll do.” He says out loud, to himself.

‘Wow, my wound was more serious than I thought. And now I know the truth, Adam rally dows like me. I want him to know I like him too, but I can’t talk right now.’

I become very tired again, so I fall asleep, but wake up an hour later. Now I can move, but I don’t want to because it hurts so much. So I go back to sleep.

When I wake up again, I can open my eyes. It’s dark so I guess that it’s night time. I look around, and see Adam in the corner of the room, asleep. I figure out that I’m in some kind of hospital. I smile. ‘Adam looks so peaceful sleeping there.’ I lay there watching him for what seemed like forever, but eventually I fall back asleep.


When I wake up back up again, after a few days, Adam is sitting next to me again. I turn my head and see that he’s looking down, talking to himself again. I close my eyes and listen, “...and why did I tell Colonel Dolittle that we should do that together? It should have been just me. I shouldn’t have put her in that danger. It was going to be just me, but I wanted her with me. God damn it! It’s all my fault! I hope she doesn’t die. If she dies, I’ll never get the chance to tell her how I feel about her. I should have listened to Steph and Stephen when I had the chance. I don’t care anymore if she loves me or not, but I do love her. I love her so much........” He keeps talking, but I’m not listening anymore.

Then the nurse comes in. “Excuse me sir, but can you leave the room for a bit, I need to clean the wound and change her dressings. Don’t worry, she’s not going anywhere while you’re gone. Why don’t you go take a walk, you sure need it, you’ve been in this room since she got here.”

“Ok, come get me when your done though.” He then left the room.

“You know Fae, you should let him know that you can here him, see him, and even talk to him. We haven’t told him yet. Steph knows, but he doesn’t.”

“I know I should, but what would I say?” During the past day, I’ve been talking to the nurse. She knows everything.

“Well, for one thing, you should tell him how you feel. Sorry this might hurt a bit.” She puts some cream on my wound.

I wince. “Ok, fine I’ll tell him when he comes back.”

“Good. I’ll go tell him that I’m done.”

She leaves the room. I close my eyes to think about what I could say to him.

Adam then walks into the room I still don’t know what to say, so I keep my eyes closed and my mouth shut. Adam sits next to me again. My head is still turned towards him. I open my eyes a little bit. He took my hand and kissed it. “I hope she didn’t hurt you too much. I don’t want to you be hurting too much. I love you too much.”

‘Ok Fae, this is it, it’s your chance to tell him how you feel.’

I open my eyes. He’s looking down again. He’s not saying anything anymore, just staring. I smile and then I finally say, “She didn’t hurt me too much.”

Adam looks up. He is shocked.

“I love you.” I say.

I smile up at him, and he smiles back at me.

Adam then leans down and kisses me.


“Fae, I was so worried about you. You almost died! Oh ya, I want you to know that I love you, actually I’ve loved you since I first saw you at the table. I just wasn’t sure if you like me the same way.”

“I know. I’ve been able to hear for a few days now. I could see 2 days ago, and talk yesterday. Oh, and I’ve loved you since I first saw you too.”

I start to feel tired again. “And all this talking is making me light headed.” I finish.

“You should go back to sleep.”

“Ya, I should.”

Right then Steph walks in. “Hey Adam, hey Fae! I’m glad you finally let him know you could hear him!”

“Wait, you knew?”

“Yup!”

“And you didn’t tell me because?”

“Because I wanted Fae to tell you! Plus she needed to know the truth. It was driving me crazy!”

“That’s still not nice.”

“Sorry. Um, Adam. Do you mind leaving? I need to talk to Fae for a bit.”

“Sure, but only for a little while. I’m gonna go get something to eat.” And with that, he leaves the room.

Steph comes over to my bed. “I had this weird vibe that you needed to talk to me. So what’s up?”

“I wanted to talk to you about where I am, how I got here, and what happened to me?

“Ok, what’s the last thing you remember?”

“When I stepped off the plane, and everyone was staring at me.”


“Ok, well when you stepped off the plane you had blood dripping down your leg. Then you collapsed, but Adam caught you. We then rushed you to the hospital wing. They saw your side and took you to a helicopter, where you, me, and Adam got into. We then landed here, at this hospital. You were then taken to the ER. We stayed in the waiting room for what seemed like days. Then the nurse came and told us that you were being put in critical care, and you had lost a lot of blood. They didn’t know if you would live or die, because of the blood loss. We had gotten really scared. She also told us that you had a large bullet wound in your left side, and you had been stitched up. Oh and you were also in a coma. You were in intensive care for 2 weeks and you came out if it 3 days ago. Adam hasn’t left your side for most of the time your were here in this hospital. Nether him nor I have left this hospital yet.” I’m in shock, I’m speechless. I can’t believe that this would have happened to me.

Adam then comes back into the room carrying breakfast for me, Steph , and him. I haven’t eaten in days, so im starving!

A few days later, I’m well enough to go back to camp. I’m in a wheel chair, but I’m happy to get back to camp. I then stay in the hospital wing for a few more weeks.