Invisible

I watched as the doctors and nurses struggled to get closer to Emma and her beeping monitors to 'observe'. I felt quite uncomfortable watching it play out in front of me. Part of me wanted to tell them to step off and give her room to breathe, but a larger part of me knew that would be a bad move.

I spaced off, staring at nothing and thinking about everything. What if it was bad when the monitors showed excess activity? What if it was because of me? What if she never woke up? I mean, this has happened before and there was no difference, what if there will never be any difference? What if I never got to see her again and never-

"Mr. Barakat?" I looked up to see one of the doctors looking down at me, seemingly very uncomfortable under me gaze.

"Yes?" I answered, slightly annoyed that he wouldn't make eye contact with me.

"Er, I was, uh, told to tell you of our plans after this observation," he said, still making no eye contact. My heart soared. Were they going to actually do something to help Emma? Were they going to get someone who knew about this situation? Was she going to wake u-

"We're going to unplug her, Mr. Barakat."

My heart crashed down, from thousands of feet above, and shattered completely, leaving me seeing spots and having trouble finding air to breathe.

"Wh-What?!" I yelled, jumping up and startling many doctors and nurses into scuttling away from me. Alex jumped awake and pushing himself up to stand beside me.

"What's happening?" he whispered urgently in my ear.

"They want to unplug Emma!" I screamed, tears already streaming down my face. They couldn't, they couldn't take her away from me, I needed her more than air itself, which I was once again trying to get into my lungs. I began pacing the length of the now nearly empty hospital room. I tugged at my hair and bit my nails, before turning back to the astonished doctor.

"YOU CAN'T DO THIS TO ME!" I screamed in his face. Alex was at my side in a second, holding me back from throwing punches at the doctor, who was backing away hurriedly.

"Jack, you need to calm down," Alex tried to reason with me, holding onto my upper arm.

"NO!" I continued to scream. "NO I WILL NOT CALM DOWN! MY LIFE IS FALLING APART BEFORE MY EYES! YOU SAW HOW I WAS BEFORE HER, ALEX! I WAS NOTHING! I WAS READY TO END IT ALL, IN FACT I WAS GOING TO THAT DAY!" My voice cracked and broke, but I continued to yell in the shocked faces of the doctor and Alex. "I SPOKE TO HER AND SHE UNDERSTOOD! SHE IS MY HAPPINESS, SHE IS MY AIR, I FUCKING NEED HER ALEX I-" I finally choked on my words and fell to the floor, crying. Alex came to me, and slumped down next to me, tears silently flowing down his face as well.

"I can't live without her, " I choked out through my tears.

"Listen Mr. Barakat, I am so sorry, I-" the doctor started, but I flew up to him and shoved my finger into his chest.

"DON'T YOU FUCKING SAY YOU'RE SORRY, YOU'RE NOT OR YOU WOULD NEVER DO THIS, YOU WOULD HAVE HELPED HER, YOU WOUL-" but suddenly, there was a terrible, blood-curdling scream that shattered through the air. I froze, everything in me froze and my already shattered heart was smashed into a fine dust. I lowered my arm and stared at Alex, whose face probably reflected my state of shock.

Because that scream did not come from me.

It did not come from Alex.

And it didn't come from the doctor, who was quite pale.

No.

That horrifying, heart-wrenching scream of pure terror had come from Emma Rae Thompson.

Notes

Hey, I have my laptop back! ANd iT AIn't BRokEN nO MOrE!!

(I've been doing this entire story from mobile so..)

Sorry I haven't updated for a few days, I'm back in school so yeah zero time. ugh.

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