Before I could even say anything, the color completely drained from Luke’s face. He was as white as a ghost.“Are you okay?” Reagan asked him. He didn’t answer; he just stood there, his mouth wide open and his knees buckled.
Next thing I knew, Shane and my mom were hauling towards the house, and Luke was laid out in front of us. I must’ve been in shock because as Reagan, Shane, and my mom sprung into action I felt frozen. Suddenly everything was moving in slow motion around me.
Luke was stirring a little bit but not completely conscious. My mom uncrossed his legs which seemed mangled beneath him and held them high in the air. Shane and Reagan came in from the kitchen with a cold bottle of water and a wet dishtowel.
“Sutton are you okay?” My mom asked looking in my direction. I looked around just noticing I was still standing outside of the door. Luke kept opening and closing his eyes still clearly dazed. I nodded at my mom and slowly made my way over to Luke.
“What happened?” He moaned, rubbing his eyes. I noticed a patch on the sleeve of his uniform. “Coopersville Paramedic Program” it read. I felt a bit of excitement.
“You’re doing it, Luke.” I said quietly under my breath.
Finally, he snapped out of it. “Oh my gosh, I’m so embarrassed,” Luke said. “The EMT fainted. How ironic.” He grinned.
“Thank you Mrs. Greys and you guys, too.” He said looking towards Reagan and Shane.
“Here I’ll help you to the couch.”
“Thanks, man. Hey, I didn’t catch your names.”
“I’m Shane and this is my girlfriend Reagan,” Shane replied, gently pulling Luke up to a standing position and slowly walking him over to the couch.
“Nice to meet you guys. Sutton was standing at the door when I opened it right? I’m not going crazy.”
My mom motioned for me to go over to the couch. “She’s here and we’re going to give you two some time to talk.” My mom said. “We’ll be in the car; call if you need anything. Sit on the couch and rest for a few minutes.”
My mom, Shane, and Reagan walked out the door. As I approached the couch, I looked around the room. Every single thing looked exactly how I remembered it. I still couldn’t fathom the idea that I was about to meet Luke for the first time.
I rounded the corner of the couch and sat down next to him. He had a wet cloth on his forehead and was sprawled out with his feet up on the coffee table. “Hi,” I said to him, still tightly gripping the letter in my hands.
“Oh my gosh, Sutton. I’m so glad you’re okay.” Luke said putting his hand on my shoulder. The feeling of his hand against my skin made my body tingle. “I’m sorry, you probably think I’m such a weirdo. You don’t even know who I am. Apparently, your mom told you I’ve been coming to see you. Well I mean I haven’t been lately I’ve had a lot going on with school. Damn. I missed a lot. You woke up. You’re okay.” he said rubbing the back of his neck with his hand. “Interesting way to meet me, huh?” He chuckled.
“I can’t believe I fucking passed out and I just graduated from my EMT course this morning. I just couldn’t believe I was seeing you standing there in front of me.” He was rambling and it was adorable.
“Congratulations.” I smiled. “On EMT school I mean.”
“Thank you so much.” He replied.
“So, of course I want to know what happened and how you’re doing and everything but can I explain myself first?” He asked. I nodded.
I felt oddly calm and I decided to just let Luke say what he needed to say before I dropped a complete bomb on him. Luke rubbed his palms together and took a deep breath.
“Okay so, I really hope I don’t sound crazy telling you all of this but I really like to be honest. I saw you one day on the boardwalk with your mom. It was in June. I work at the Pizza Shack and I smiled at you and you looked away. That was the one and only time I saw you UNTIL.” A part of me hoped Luke would go on about crashing into me on his bike and recall all of the events of the summer I remembered experiencing with him but as he continued, I could tell that just like everyone had been telling me, that just wasn’t reality. “I saw your picture in the newspaper. I read about your accident and to make a long story short, the accident happened at a place that I’m familiar with.”
I gulped. From what I knew, Luke’s parents had gotten in an accident and were killed on that same bridge. “You kept popping up in my dreams and you were always with other people who are important to me so I just felt like I needed to start visiting you. I talked to you. I even brought my dog to meet you. I really hope you don’t think I’m a weirdo but there’s kind of more to the story and I don’t want to freak you out, the first time you’re meeting me. Anyways how are you feeling?”
I took a breath. “I’m doing okay actually. First off I just want to thank you for coming to see me. It really means more to me than I can even describe. I have some things to tell you too and I really hope you don’t think I’m crazy because what I’m going to tell you is going to sound pretty wild.”
Luke laughed. “Lay it on me.”
“Okay so... I woke up from my coma on November 5th. When I woke up I was really confused.” Luke nodded. “I was
