The next day Adrian’s body still hurt but he was able to move around the house on his own, his hands still trembled a little so he didn’t help much with the chores of the house, he did try to keep her mother company while she did them, though it was mostly because she stopped whatever she was doing every few minutes to check on him.
Mina: Adrian remember we’ll go to the hospital in a bit, so don’t forget your ID and you might be hospitalized so grab some clothes and your toothbrush.
Adrian: Mom don’t worry i got all i need on my bag’ and if i forget something that’s cuz i prob’ won’t need it.
Mina was watching the news on the Tv and the anchor said that it still wasn’t clear the reason for the malfunction of the electronic devices two days before, the strangest thing is that it happened in different cities almost at the same time, but that people shouldn’t worry since everything seemed to be working just fine now. In other news there is a monkey that slipped past security at the airport and got into a plane, the flight attendant took a selfie with the monkey at the back while the monkey was stealing a bottle of water, the monkey has been identified as a “Trachypithecus obscurus”, how the monkey got there is still a mystery.
When we arrived at the hospital my mother tried to explain to the best of her abilities what had happened to the hospital receptionist, who asked us to fill a form and to wait. My mother was furious and now she was the one screaming and making unintelligible noises, but somehow it worked a doctor heard her screams and came to see what was happening, he lead us to a room and took some blood, then X rays, asked if i did drugs, last sexual partner and some other question that didn’t seem to be related and after 40 minutes of my private life being exposed to my mom, we were out already on our way home, the doc said i didn’t need to be hospitalized, just to take things slow and to come back if i got another episode, before we left he gave my mom the number of a psychiatrist, just in case.
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At home we had dinner, played some card games together and then each to their own, i went to my room, got in my bed and then from my lower back i felt something familiar and it gave me the chills, my body started to tremble and i felt it, the same energy that made my first bone fracture seems like a sunny day at the park, as i was feeling it I got panic-stricken, my mind run a number of scenarios when in each the best thing that happened was that it was all a dream or that i died before the pain started, but after who know how long as i was in a pool of my own sweat, I realized that nothing happened I checked my phone it showed 4:32 AM, I unlocked it and called Gabriel.
Gabriel is my neighbor and one of my closest friends, he is the type of friend who is always there like a guardian, maybe it’s because he is the oldest of the kids in the block, maybe because he was always the tallest and strongest of the group or maybe because he is an older brother, but whenever someone needed someone to talk with or had a shitty day he always listened, so when my panic attack was over I instinctively or by impulse called him.
Gabriel woke up in the middle of the night with his phone ringing, he was about to turn it off until he saw that it was a call from Adrian, earlier he heard his mother saying something about Adrian going to the hospital and he thought that maybe it was important, his brother was still sleeping in the next bed so he left the room after grabbing a pack of cigars and started to walk down the stairs while picking up, he had just managed to leave the house with a cigarette half lit when he noticed Adrian was panting, probably crying too, Gabrield tried to calm Adrian down over the phone while walking towards Adrian house, he had pass over two houses before reaching Adrian’s, He had yet to said a word so Gabriel tried to think about what to say when he remembered that Adrian was always the happiest when Jack, his bully, had a shitty day. Adrian I saw Jack today, I think he was on his way home, anyway he was walking when suddenly a scared cat jumped on him scratching his face, it was such a rewarding sight, but then i saw from what the cat was running and you won’t believe me, there was a fucking monkey throwing shit to the cat and Jack got Hit right on the head, he was piss, he went after the monkeythat’s when I lost sight of him, I laughed so hard I wish I could have recorded it, maybe some street camera got that or at least I hope so.
Adrian’s panting stopped while Gabriel was talking but he still didn’t say a word, he couldn’t just yet, suddenly there was a knock on the window and there he was, the neighborhood guardian.