Copter's POV

I woke up from what I felt was a very very deep sleep.  I could barely open my eyes and when I managed to do so, my vision was blurry.  When I tried to speak I could not move my lips.  I could hear voices around me.  I heard my mom talking, and then another voice conversing with her.  Wait, is that Kannika?  Good old darling Kannika?  Why was I blessed with such a faithful loyal loving caring sweet sweet friend?  She has always been there through thick and thin, through sad times and happy times, through times of defeat and times of victory.  One could so easily mistake us for long time sweethearts but we are not.  She is like my twin, my other self.  We had spent so much time together until she met her boyfriend and I got a very busy working schedule being one of the actors in Chiffon Cake's "Two Moons the Series".  We rarely saw each other after that.  But now she's here by my side with my mom to care for me and lend me support in this unexpected critical event in my life.  I will have to find a way to thank her properly once I recover from this surgery.

Where is P'Kim, I wondered.  Wouldn't he have known by now that I had been hospitalized since I did not appear at the shoot?  With that thought I drifted back to sleep.

I'm not sure if I was dreaming or if I was half awake.  In my dream I felt someone take my hand and squeeze it and whisper to me,  "Everything will be alright."  Was that P'Kim's voice?  I tried to squeeze his hand back but I could hardly move a finger.

When I regained consciousness, I saw my mom sitting on the lounging chair by the wall.  She was asleep.  I glanced at clock on the wall just above the door.  The long hand was on six and the short hand was on two.  Was it two-thirty in the morning?  No wonder mom was asleep.  She must have been exhausted.  

I wondered whether P'Kim ever came to see me during my unconscious state.  Was that his hand that squeezed mine and his voice that whispered to me that everything was gonna be alright?

I really wished that P'Kim was with me right now.  I missed him so much. I closed my eyes and must have fallen asleep for several more hours because when I heard a knock on the door, the clock said six forty five.

A nurse came into the room and asked me if I had felt my stomach rumbling.  I shook my head.  She asked me if I felt any pain and I said I was starting to feel pain on the surgical site.  She excused herself and after a while came back with a pain pill.  She told me to take it because she wanted me to walk around the room so that I could start feeling hungry then I could eat a light breakfast.

My mom had awaken when she heard the nurse talking to me.  She immediately came to my side and asked me how I was feeling.  I told her that I was feeling a twinge of pain in my surgical area but that I had already taken the pain pill that the nurse gave me so it should disappear in a while.

After about twenty minutes the nurse came back and assisted me to get out of bed and helped me to walk around the room.  My mom was fetched by another nurse to meet the doctor who operated on me to give her post operative information.

When she came back she was with Kannika.  I was back in my bed by that time and she came and gave me a quick hug.  My mom excused herself to go to the hospital cafeteria to get herself some breakfast.  She offered to bring some food to Kannika but Kannika said that she had eaten before coming to see me.

"I happened to be with your mom when the doctor informed her that you are recovering very well and that in a day or two you could be discharged," she announced happily.  "And by the way my boyfriend sends his apologies for not being able to come and visit you.  He is very busy reviewing for his bar exams."

"Don't worry about it,"  I said.  At that moment Bas came into the room holding a bag of fruits and a card.

"Hi, Bas,"  I said, "I thought P'Tae said you had a tummy ache and could not join them to see me."

"I'm all better now," he said and turned to look at Kannika.  Kannika also eyed him curiously.

"Kannika, " I said, "this is my friend Bas.  Bas, this is Kannika.  We've been friends since our elementary days.  She's been so sweet and caring to me all these years that my mom likes to refer to her as my childhood sweetheart.  Look at those flowers on that table.  She left her boyfriend just to bring them over to me.  Bas!!!!!  Where are you going?????"

Bas left the room without any warning!!!  What the hell???