A surprise in the hospital

Zack's senses started to come back to him gradually until he realized he was laying in a bed, but it wasn't one he remembered ever sleeping in. His eyes fluttered open lightly as he observed his surroundings and made sense of the infuriating beeping noise that was filling his ears. He realized the beeping mixed with what he was seeing could only mean he was in a hospital. He groaned internally, as he imagined what his parents would say when they saw him. They were both doctors and so, tried to influence their kids to leave a sheltered life away from the threat of injury or medical harm.

Zack struggled to remember what got him into the hospital this time, he remembered the last time he was here, was when he had sprained his ankle during a basketball game, but he knew he was here for another reason. The memories started to come back of Heather, Sarah and him touching the mysterious rock Heather was going on about. He looked around him, but saw he was in a solo room, probably the influence of his parents being doctors. He didn't know what had happened to the girls, but he guessed it was probably similar to his situation right now. He winced as he felt a sharp pain run through his body, as he wondered what had caused him the pain and knocked him out. There must have been something strange about that rock, he thought to himself.

His musings were interrupted by shouting which he could hear down the hall through his closed room door. "I don't care if he's dying Monica, your brat of a son, did something to my rock and now no one will buy it from me. If you don't let me in there, I'll sue you and Gregory as well as this hospital! Now move out of my way woman!" He heard who could only be John Johnson, Kurt and Sarah's dad. He heard the door close and the visitor's chair move towards his bed as someone sat in it. "Might as well stop pretending kid, I know when someone is lying to me." John said. Zack let out a deep breath before opening his eyes. It had been a while since Zack had seen Mr. Johnson face to face, and he was still a very imposing man.

"Hello Mr. Johnson." Zack greeted the man.

"Hello Mr. Bishop. Care to tell me what you were doing trespassing on private property, and what you did to my priceless artifact?" John asked.

"It wasn't my idea, it was supposed to be a harmless fun time, just going on a treasure hunt. How are Heather and Sarah?" Zack asked.

"They're doing fine, and Kurt as well." John said.

"What do you mean? Kurt wasn't with us." Zack said.

"Well he was found along with you guys, so he must have been." John said.

"He must have been following us!" Zack said.

"Does it look like I care? Whatever you did to my stone, has now rendered it useless, all the money I spent to dig it up is now lost!" John roared.

"What do you mean? What happened to the rock?" Zack asked.

"It shrank, it's now half the size it was before, and it doesn't shine anymore, it doesn't change colour as it did before, it's not the same!" John said ticking all the things off on his fingers.

"We did nothing, we just touched it Mr. Johnson." Zack said defensively.

"Well, I'm about to sue you and the Ravers for what that stone would've been worth, so prepare to live in poverty for the rest of your life Bishop! I wish you a swift recovery." He said and slammed the door on the way out. Zack was furious, how dare he blame them for something they didn't do, and now his parents were going to be dragged into it. If the Johnsons sued his family, Taylor wouldn't e able to finish college with all the debt she would accrue. It would ruin them all! Zack didn't realize what he was doing until his mom came into the room.

"Honey, how did it go? Oh my god! Zack? Did John do this?" His mom Monica asked. Zack looked at her in confusion, before following her gaze to the side bar of his hospital bed that looked like it had been mangled, even though it was made of hard plastic. His hands were the ones wrecking the bed to his amazement, how strong does someone have to be to do that? He wondered.

"No mom, I think I did." Zack said slowly as his mom's face creased in worry as she ran to check if all his vital signs were in the normal range. Zack looked at his arms, they looked normal size, but he was obviously stronger than he looked, did the rock do this? He simply smiled.