Split Chapter – Waking Up
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Makai
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I was still sitting in Ocean's room when his parents came in with smiles on their faces.
"How did it go?" I asked them, hopping to my feet and rushing over to them. The weakness from having given blood had already faded. Rest, along with eating some lunch, helped my body to recover.
"He's fine. The doctor said he should wake up before much longer." Mrs. Shores was smiling so broadly with her relief that I knew right then and there that my Ocean would be OK.
"Oh, thank God." I sighed in relief and could have collapsed back into the chair if it had been close enough.
"The doctor said they were going to bring him back to his room soon. We can wait with him here." Mr. Shores added with almost as wide of a smile as his wife's.
"Good, because I didn't plan on going anywhere. I had told Ben and Ryan as much before they left to go back to my place.