Chapter 12: 

Heyo~! Chapter 12 is finally out! I know it’s been a while, but I genuinely love this story, and this chapter, and I hope you guys enjoy!

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Now everything’s black.

Pitch black.

There’s a strange sound humming about. Like the sound I hear when I duck my head underwater, and the water comes rushing into my ears. Not a splash, or water flowing; the sound where water fills your ears instantly. That… pop. The pop you hear after the distorted roar of water rushing in and filling your ears. The implication that someone just flipped a switch. And now your hearing’s off.

And after that pop, after the switch is flipped, you hear that hum. The hum of still fluid, sitting in your ears. Muted, but very much there.

It’s almost not a sound. It’s more of a feeling.

And that’s the only thing there is.

Just that… feeling.

No noise. No thoughts. No emotions. Just that… silent, drifting… feeling.

It’s constant.

“Wake up, Kyle.”

Then like that, I’m awake. By the voice’s will, I’m pulled back in with alarming speed. My senses, my surroundings, they rush back to me like a vortex that spirals around and smacks me awake.

Right on my face.

I shoot up, my heart leaping with me as I gasp for air.

“Oh… is that okay?”

A hand touches my chest.

“Settle down, young man. You have brand new stitches in.”

Stitches…

“Oh, not there. They’re on your ribs. They won’t be noticeable.” A voice chuckles, and I feel a hand on my wrist that lowers it from my face.

My vision clears up. …I’m in a hospital room. My parents… Mom, Dad, and Ike are sitting across from me. Astride from me, from the bed I’ve been lying in, there’s a man dressed in.. ah–, he’s a doctor. Of course. And…

Then there’s Cartman, hovering over me.

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