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  • Lucie Rosenfeld

A Corona Chance

Dernière mise à jour : 2 avr. 2021

This story takes place during the time of the covid. We learn about Mike an Jesse's story. They are two childhood best friends separate against their will and reunited thanks to the covid crisis.


 

This is the story of two friends. Not the kind of friends that you have for one year or something, but real friends. Jesse is a girl who never met her dad. He left when she was two months old. She lived her entire life with her mother in New York. At three, her mother didn’t have time to take care of her so she put her in daycare. Her mom was working all day and all night to provide for her daughter. Jesse didn’t have any friends. She wasn’t like the other children. She was smarter and more mature than the others. Then, one day, a boy offered her to eat with him. She agreed and ever since that moment, they became inseparable. Mike is a boy who had a perfect life. He lived with his moms and his brother. Jesse was always going to his house because of her absent mom. As time went by, Mike’s family became Jesse’s family too and vice versa. Later, they went to the same school. Even when they weren’t in the same class, they saw each other every day. They were always here for each other, during the ups and downs.

After graduation, they both went to NYU. Jesse studied business and Mike studied psychology. One night, they went to a frat party. There, Mike met a girl named Juliet, they spend the whole night together. It was love at first sight. But she had a boyfriend. Mike did everything he could to get her. After several attempts, she broke up with her boyfriend and she finally decided to be with Mike. From that day forward they started dating. Despite many attempts, Jesse was still single, so she decided to focus entirely on her studies. After NYU, Jesse and Mike kept living in New York and they still saw each other all the time. After being together for many years, Mike proposed to Juliet, they couldn’t have been happier. They had a bright future ahead of them.

The night of Mike’s bachelor party, he went with Jesse to Starbucks before the party. It was a dark and rainy night. Jesse ordered a vanilla iced latte and Mike a pumpkin spice latte. They ran to escape the rain and went back to Jesse’s car. They were running in the rain, crossing the street, and saw two big growing lights. It was a car coming out of the darkness. The car hit Mike. The driver was drunk. Mike went flying into a brick wall. His skull shattered on impact, the brown dusty wall turned red. Jesse couldn't grasp what had just happened, she stood there in shock. Jesse finally gathered the courage to run up to him, when she arrived, he wasn't moving. There was so much blood it seemed as though it had rained red

water. She sat there; her clothes now covered in her best friend's blood.

She didn’t know what to do, she was useless, all she could do was watch

as her friend’s life was slipping away.

Soon enough the paramedics arrived and he was brought to the hospital. He was unconscious. He wouldn’t wake up, despite Jesse's many efforts. The driver was sentenced to two years in jail but Mike’s state didn’t improve. They were forced to put him in a medically induced coma. When Juliet learnt about the situation, she couldn’t believe what happened. It was unrealistic. Her perfect day was ruined and her fiancé could die at any moment. She couldn’t grasp the situation, so she left Jesse in charge of Mike and disappeared, letting Mike and her old life behind her. For a month, Jesse went to see him twice a day. Then, she went to see him twice a week. After two months passed, she went once a week. After three months, she only went once a month. And after four months she stopped visiting. She felt guilty and she couldn’t deny it, but it was too painful for her to see her best friend like that.

Five years went by. It’s 2020, Jesse is now 26, and she’s working in an

international business company. On January 13th, the first Covid case was reported in Washington DC. The virus spread like wildfire, mostly because of Trump's mismanagement. Due to the pandemic, space in hospitals has been greatly reduced. As the cases increased, more and more people needed to be hospitalized. One day, on a cold morning, Jesse received a call from the New York hospital where Mike has been lying for the past 5 years.

“Hello, Miss Johnson, we need to talk to you. Can you come this afternoon at 5pm?”

Jesse went to the hospital and talked with the doctor in charge of Mike’s health.

“We don’t have enough space to keep Mike here, we need to use it for coronavirus patients. So, you need to choose whether to unplug him or keep him in a coma but in an hospital in California” explained the doctor to Jesse.

At first Jesse was shocked and angry. She couldn’t let her best friend die or move to another state! But she realized that it was an emergency situation and she had to make a decision.

She called Mike's moms and they found a solution: they would ask the doctors to wake him up one last time and if it didn’t work, they would need to unplug him. The doctors tried to wake him up three times. It took 7 hours of work and, after the last try, just before they unplugged him, he woke up. It was a miracle. His changes of waking up after what he lived through were close to zero. Two days later, Jesse was allowed to see him. At first, they didn’t talk. The emptiness that she felt filled up.

It was like they were meeting for the first time. It restarted like it had begun. They lunched together, Mike in his bed and Jesse next to him. Just two people looking at each other like they knew that they were meant to be. They cried. And after many apologies from Jesse, they just talked for hours about what he saw during his coma, how life is now, how the corona virus affected their lives and how much they loved each other. Many stories can be pulled out of this story but there’s two that we should always remember: our best friend will always be our best friend and even if the corona virus is hard and is making life difficult, there’s always good in the bad.

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