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“But don’t worry,” he said. “It will pass.”
“A-Are you a d-doctor?” I said.
“Of a sort,” the man said, moving to another table.
I couldn’t help but feel a little relieved.
“What happened to me?” I said. “Where am I? What’s going on?”
The questions filtered through my mind so fast I could barely keep up.
“You’ve been through a terrible ordeal,” the man said in his deep, calming voice.
“Am I in a hospital?” I said. “Did something happen? Was I in an accident?”
“Try to think back,” the man said.
Think back…
Think back…
What did I remember?
A bright light, passing through the sky…
Our minivan careening over a cliff…
And that flying object behind us—not unidentified—we all knew what it was…
Me and my friends in the minivan, sailing over the edge, down into the ravine below…
“I was in a car accident,” I said. “We barely managed to escape… No, wait…”
The minivan didn’t strike the black rocks below. We froze in midair. It sounded impossible but it was true. Something grabbed hold of us, something inside the light. No, it was the light. It yanked us from our seats.
And then I flew at a thousand miles an hour up, up, up into the sky and…
I couldn’t remember anything else. Only waking up in this hospital.
My shoulders heaved with relief.
“I thought I was dying,” I said. “I thought I was in hell. Where am I? Are my parents here? I’d like to see them. They’ll be worried about me—”
“Don’t worry about your parents,” the man said. “I’m sure they’re fine.”
My eyes were sore and grainy. Each blink wiped my vision clear, sharpening it little by little. Then the man’s face snapped fully into focus.
Wow, I thought. He’s really handsome.
You lucked out here, girl!
No, wait…
“Has anyone ever told you you look just like George Clooney?” I said.
“I can’t say they have,” the man said with a grin.
“You do. Honestly. You look exactly the same.”
