Beep.

Beep.

Beep.

I groan, and start opening my eyes only to quickly close them due to the blinding white light. That's funny, I thought, I don't have a white light in my room. I forced my eyes to open, occasionally wincing until I got used to the light.

I scan my surroundings. A hospital. I'm at a hospital. I look down at myself immediately, checking over myself. I see a brace wrapped tightly around my right wrist and I can feel something around my head, but I can't make myself touch it.

I try and sit up but a pain in my side prevents me and I cry in pain. A sound comes from the corner of the room. All I see is a chair that looks really uncomfortable. I don't see anything that could even make a noise. Right before I'm about to ignore it and call myself crazy I catch a glimpse of green. I furrow my eyebrows as the object straightens up and turns to look at me.

He smiles brightly and walks over to me. He places one hand over mine and the other on the top of my head. "How are you feeling, Mia?"

I give him a blank stare. "How do you think I'm feeling? I don't even remember what happened and I feel terrible."

"Y-you don't remember?" Josh asks, pulling his eyebrows together.

I'm about to respond saying 'no' before a nurse walks in the door, smiling brightly. I start feeling dizzy as soon as I catch eye contact with her.

Josh somehow notices how I'm feeling because he turns away from the nurse and locks his eyes onto mine. "Breathe, Mia. Try to keep it out."

The dizzy feeling gets stronger the longer I try to prevent it as I wonder what's going on. Realization hits me like a ton of bricks.

I'm going to see her die.

Just when the panic kicks in and I try to fight it again, the scene around me changes and I find myself on an airplane. The plane bumps around in the air and shortly after the seatbelt sign gets flicked on. I spin in circles trying to find the nurse. I look everywhere until I find her. I see her through a small window on the wall. I wave to her and she waves back right when I do. I make weird faces and it dawns on me.

She is me. I am her.

The plane suddenly drops a few feet and a scream errupts from me and a few of the other passengers. The capitan's scratchy voice comes through the speakers, "Please be seated and put on your seatbelts. We are experiencing a bit of turbulence but it should pass by shortly."

Before another moment passes by, the planes drops again, but this time it keeps falling. I sqeeze my eyes shut as screams fill the air. I know exactly how this nurse will die. The second before we hit the ground, I scream.

I sit up and pain ignites in my side, making me clutch it tightly.

"Mia!" Josh exaims, helping me lay back down. He runs his hands under my eyes and I realize that I am crying. My breathing is labored and I try to calm down. "It's okay," he whispers, pulling me into him and gently wrapping his arms around me.

After a few minutes, I realize something. "Where did the nurse go?" My voice is dry and scratchy from my screaming and crying.

"I asked her to leave. I thought it'd be better if she wasn't here when you woke up. Can you tell me what you saw?"

I see the nurse again, looking back at me in the mirror, right before ahe died. Her hair was still a honey color so the accident isn't too far away. Her bright green eyes were still soft and warm. I only wish that I didn't have to see her die.

I open my mouth to respond, but the door opens as well and Dad walks in, his eyes red and puffy and I have to fight to keep my tears back. I hate seeing my father cry. Josh pulls back from me and I wipe away the tear stains on my cheeks.

Suddenly, Dad's arms around around me and mine find their way around him. "I was scared to death, Mia. Scared to death. I can't lose you too."

When he said the last part, my stomach dropped. Tears start flowing again as I picture my mother and how she died. It was a car crash. She was killed on impact.

"Mia!"

I look over to the door in time to see my best friends stumbling in with wide grins on their faces.

"Hey guys."

Alec reaches me first, which is a surprise to me, but he doesn't hug me. Instead, he places one of his hands over mine and smiles at me. "How are you feeling?"

I shrug with my left shoulder - because I'm scared to use my right - and reply, "Not too bad. Just as long as I don't move."

He grins in response and squeezes my hand before letting go and Elizabeth takes his place. She puts her white teeth on display as she carefully hugs me and I do my best to hug her back.

"You've been out for two days. I was worried that you were never going to wake up."

"Two days!?" I exclaim, sitting up again only to feel more pain in my side. Man, I've got to stop doing that. I grit my teeth and slowly lay back down. "What's been going on at school?"

"Nothing," three people say at once.

I look back and forth between my three best friends - well my two best friends and my Weise. "Well, all right, then."

Elizabeth raises her hand sheepishly as if she was asking a question in class. I raise my eyebrow at her. "Yes...?"

"The only interesting thing that happened was that Joshua spent all two of those days in here with you."

My eyes widen and I look over at Josh. He's staring at the ground with a hand on the back of his neck. He chuckles shyly and I catch a glimpse of some red on his cheeks.

Before anyone can say another word, a huge yawn escapes my mouth, despite the fact that I was sleeping for two days.

"All right, everyone out. She needs her rest," Dad says, herding Elizabeth and Alec out of the room, but purposely leaving Josh in here with me.

As soon as the door closes, Josh takes my hand in his again. "I will leave you to rest, but I first need to know two things." I nod. "First, do you remember what happened?"

My mind reels as I search my memories for what happened. The car accident shocks me as I recall it. I nod my head again, not saying anything. Josh gives me a tight lip smile and rubs the back of my hand.

"Okay," he whispers before clearing his throat and going on, "Secondly, are you okay?"

"Yes-"

"No," he interuppts, "I mean, do you need to talk about what you saw?"

Oh. The nurse's death. The more and more I think it over, the more it freaks me out and I begin to shake.

Josh sits next to me carefully and puts his arm around my shoulders and kisses the side of my head. "It's okay. Just tell me what happened."

I gulp loudly and grasp his hand in mine, holding it close to my heart. "I-it was a plane crash." I hesitate on saying the next part which causes Josh and me to speak at the same time.

"This time-"

"That's all-"

I bite on my lip as Josh gestures for me to continue. "Th-this time I wasn't observing. I-I was her. I was the nurse. And I felt everything she felt. It was... horrifying. I knew what was going on but I couldn't control my actions. I screamed without meaning to. I-I-I....."

Josh tucks my head under his chin and slowly rocks us back and forth, careful to not put any pressure against my ribs. Tears leak out from my closed eyelids but thankfully, I manage to not make any noise. I fall asleep in Josh's arms.

When I wake up, I'm lying flat on my back and when I look around, Josh isn't in the room. My heart starts pounding and the monotone beeping of the heart machine follows suit. The white walls seem to close in on me and I struggle to breathe.

Did I mention I'm claustrophobic?

The same nurse - thankfully - soon stumbles into the room and just having the door opened relieves some of the stress.

"Calm down, sweetie. What's wrong?"

I shake my head slowly as my heart starts slowing down. "It's nothing. I just need to get out of here."

The nurse smiles sympathetically at me. "I'm afraid that you can't. We need to make sure you are stable before you can leave."

I groan and close my eyes for a moment before I here the door click closed. Assumimg that it was just the nurse leaving, I try to fall asleep again.

"Mia?"

I open my eyes and look at my visitors. "Hey guys." I sit up - slowly, this time - and rest against the back of the bed. "What's up?"

"Nothing, really. It's just that - uh - well..." Elizabeth stammers before Alec takes over.

"Your Dad just wanted you to know that he left."

His words shock me, to put it simply. To put it in detail, I'm crushed to the bone. Dad never leaves when I might possibly need his help, and let me tell you, I could really use him in here with me. I just experienced a pretty bad car crash, in which I broke a rib, sprained my wrist, and got a cut on my head - which I found out from Josh. Then to top it all off, I saw the nurse die.

It's been a great few days.

And just when I really need my daddy's help, he's not here.

I soon feel bodies pressed against my shoulders, lightly, and arms wrapped around my torso, also lightly. I hug them back in the best way I can with a sprained wrist and a broken rib.

Then, without my consent, tears start streaming down my face. It's not at all from pain - thanks to modern medicine - but because of everything else. Because of Dad not being here. Because of the crash. Because of being Josh's Meise, and all that it entails. But mainly because of my friends, and how lucky I am to have them. They would drop everything to be there for me if I asked them to. Even without asking, they're there for me and I mean, who can't be happy to have friends like them?

Well this is also short.... Sorry about that.

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