Allie woke up to TJ licking her face and she smiled. She tried to tell him to back off but her throat was so dry, she couldn’t get any sound other than a croak to come out. Her head was hurting really badly; she very slowly and carefully opened her eyes. She was in a hospital room. TJ was sitting on her chest and Lizzy was sitting on the edge of the bed?

     She rubbed her eyes and looked again. “Lizzy?” she croaked.

     “Who else would I be, dork? I told you guys TJ could wake her up. You should have listened to me days ago.”

     Then a man’s face appeared over her and smiled brightly. I have seen that face before, Allie thought, but where? Then she remembered. It looked just like a photo of her da...

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