The moment he walked into my room, a big smile spread across my face. I don’t know how to explain it exactly, but I feel like I’ve been gone forever. Everything that happened was sort of a blur. I remember talking to Nick and working through everything, and the next thing that I knew, all I could see was nothing. There was this sharp pain striking me in my chest, then absolutely nothing. It was almost like being asleep without dreaming.
Now that Joel was right here beside me, I felt like I could breathe normally again. The doctor clued me in a little as to what happened. He said that Joel had been here the whole time, that he hadn’t left the hospital once. Looking at him now, I could see that. The horror on my face must have been obvious when I stared down at his bl
