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PART THIRTEEN

15.

Morning comes as does a knock to the door of Judy and Ellie's dorm room. Ellie awakes to the sound of that knock though Judy has been up a while. She had been sitting on a chair staring out a window at the new but familiar world before her. She knows that whoever has come to the door has not come for her, but she heads towards it anyway.

'Good morning' she says as she glances over at Ellie while being on that way to the door.

'Morning' says Ellie.

Judy opens the door. She may have never met the person on the other side before though she instantly knows who it is. She looks at him not quite with distain but with a look that definitely suggests that she does not like him.

'Hi' speaks Steve. 'Is Ellie here?'

Judy stands back a little allowing more than enough space for Steve to enter the room.

'See you later on' she says to Ellie before leaving the room.

'What has got her goat?' he asks.

'Ah nothing, she is just looking out for me is all' says Ellie as she sits to one side of her bed.

'Have you just woken?'

'Yeah.'

'So, you haven't heard yet, have you?'

'Heard what?'

'One of the cheerleaders was killed yesterday. Her body was found this morning.'

'What?'

'Yeah, there are all sorts of rumours going around as to who might have done it. The killer might even be someone who goes to school here.'

'What? Murder? Are you sure?'

'Confirmed by police and all ...'

It is not long before Judy returns to the room.

'Have you heard?' asks Ellie.

'Yeah, that's why I am back so soon, we are being told not to head anywhere alone unless it is totally necessary.'

'I better get going then so, stay safe, both of you.'

'You too' says Judy not wanting to wish harm upon anyone or come across as being in any way evil, no matter if it is just Steve, he can be hurt just as much as anyone else can.

'See you later on' says Ellie.

Steve indeed leaves, Judy sits back into the chair she had been in moments ago and Ellie gets herself up and ready. The two girls are silent in this particular moment for what could you say or how could you act in a moment like this one.

***

For the first time since arriving to the local hospital, Oliver makes his way into Judy's room. She is still unconscious and is hooked up to machines that certainly have her looking the picture of worry. Judy's mum still sits in the chair next to the bed, praying for her daughter to come back to her.

'I am sorry to disturb you, but I am a friend of Judy's. My name is Oliver. Can I ask as to how she is doing?'

'Thank you for coming. Nice to see she has friends, or at least one friend. I am Judy's mother. You have probably gathered that ... Doctors say she is stable, she is in a coma. With a head injury like what Judy has, they say it is difficult to know the full extent of any possible damage. They tell me they expect to know more in the next day or two.'

'Hopefully the next update will be positive, and I am sure it will be. I would like to keep visiting while Judy is here ... if that is alright and if there is anything I can do to help I would be happy to oblige.'

'Thank you, Oliver.'

With that Oliver heads off. He would have like to have told Judy's mum that he feels somewhat responsible for Judy's accident even though he had nothing to do with it, but she has enough to be worrying about for the moment, no need to make things any worse.

What a nice young man ... mum thinks, but only ever so briefly for she too would like to speak out loud as to how guilty she feels. Judy didn't want to go to school but mum insisted that she should go and go indeed she did. If only Judy had spent the day at home or stayed out with mum, then she would not be just where she currently is. Thing is, as well as all that is occurring ... mum has no idea that while Judy lays unconscious in a hospital bed she is also somewhere else, a somewhere that is just as real as that hospital bed.

I walk into that hospital now. Years have passed, yet it feels the same. The smell, the feeling, so different yet it is just the same. I look into the room where Judy lay motionless. She is not there or course, but someone else is ... laying just as motionless, someone who surely has a worrying family member not all so far away.

I know the outcome of Judy's story but unless the very end is reached upon everything, it still can be altered. I must believe that. I exist, therefore she does too ... somewhere no matter what anyone else may say. If THE END is written somewhere then it can still be edited, what is lost can be recovered. I will find her, and I will bring her back ...

Down the corridor to my right, a darkness has come, just like it had once before. No, ... this is not possible. Are there still remnants of Abe out there? The sound of quick moving footsteps echoes out though I cannot see from what or who. But ... if an element of Abe still exists then that's the proof that I can accomplish what it is I want to accomplish.

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