A Wave Of Desire

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Ocean

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I felt like I was still trying to wrap my head around all that had just happened to me. I knew that I had been hypnotized. I mean, when Dr. Malachi showed up in my thoughts, I knew that something had to be happening. Then he told me what he was doing, and it all made sense to me.

If he would have asked, I might have rejected him on sheer instinct, but it wasn't bad at all. I barely noticed anything at all. Except I felt better after he was done. I don't know why, but I did.

Now, though, I was starting to feel a little anxious. I felt like there was just too much for me to do and I was just wasting time. Maybe it was because I had rested my mind so thoroughly that I was just getting an actual perspective of what was really going on.

And I think the first thing that I needed to focus on was fixing this mess that we were all in.

"Dr. Malachi?" I called out to him as I focused my eyes and looked at him.

"Yes, Ocean?" He seemed calm, but I felt like he was thinking about a lot more than I knew about.

"What do I do now? I mean, I just feel like I am forgetting something that needs to be done. And it's like it has something to do with you."

"I don't know what that could be, Ocean. I am sorry."

He looked like he was truly sorry about not being able to help me. It made me feel bad. It was like I was doing nothing at all lately but causing everyone so many problems. I had made my parents worry. Makai's parents as well. I had made the doctor go through so much. I could only imagine what I had made Makai go through. Not to mention Justin. I had???

THAT'S IT! I knew what I had forgotten now.??

"DR. MALACHI!" I may have been a little too forceful just then. Time to tone it down a little. "I know what I was forgetting. I know what I need to focus on now."

"And what is that?" He looked like I had actually scared him when the full intensity of my words hit him.

"I need to help Justin." I could just feel the intensity that was radiating off of me. This was something that I needed to do. I needed to make sure that I let Justin have an actual future. He needed to have a chance in life since I didn't give him a choice with the bespelling. Neither of us had a choice in that matter.

"Isn't Justin the boy that put you in the hospital?" He put his hand on his chin. "Hmm, I remember you talking about him before. That's right, I was there when you found out that he had been bespelled by you." I swear he was just pretending to not remember that at first. That wasn't nice, but at least it didn't last that long. "Yes, we need to make sure he has no memories of the incident and that there are no lingering side effects in his mind."

"So, you will help me?" I was starting to get excited about it now.

Just then, I heard the front door open, and someone came frantically running inside. I hadn't even noticed the time, but it was Makai coming home from school and practice. He had obviously rushed so that he could get back to me sooner.

"Ocean!" He came running up to me in the living room and hugged me before he even noticed the doctor sitting there.

"Hello Makai." Dr. Malachi called out to him. "I take it you have a hard day at school." It looked like he was trying not to laugh.

"The worst." Makai grinned at him. "What are you doing here?"??

"I had to give Ocean his checkup. And now he has asked me to help the boy, Justin."

"Yeah, we need to do something about him. I know we all talked about having you tell him that his x-rays from the hospital showed that he had a tumor or something and then he would think that he had surgery or something. During that time, Ocean will sing to him and make him forget everything."

"That isn't the worst plan ever, but I think we can do better than just that. Don't worry, I will help you."

"Better? What else can we do?" I was confused. I thought we had all figured it out.

"When can the boy be brought in?" The doctor didn't seem to want to answer my questions.

"I can call him here anytime that you need him. He gave me his number so that he could come and apologize to Ocean, and because I needed to have this plan go into effect." I hadn't known that Makai had done that.

"Good. Call him." Well, the doctor sure was back to his good old demanding self. Makai had told me how he had been when I first got to the hospital, well he was obviously back to acting like that now.

Makai did as he was told. He called Justin and told him to come on over right away, which he agreed to do. We also texted Ben and Ryan to let them know not to come back yet. Apparently the two of them had gone out on a date together. I was happy for them. Also, Makai texted his parents and told them we were putting the plan into motion with Dr. Malachi here to help. They told us to be careful and that they would be home when they could.

Not even a half an hour after he had been texted, Justin was at the house. When we had let him into the house, he was already starting to apologize and tell me that he didn't know what had come over him all those times. He didn't hate me, not at first. But something just made him feel hostile toward me. I knew what it had been.

Right now, Dr. Malachi was in the other room. We weren't supposed to let Justin know that the doctor was here at all. So, Makai and I were the only ones that were talking to Justin.

"Ocean, if there is anything that I can do to make this up to you, anything at all, please just tell me. I want to make amends. I know that it's not going to fix anything and it's not going to make it like it never happened, but I want to pay my debt to you in any way that I can."

"Just sit down, Justin. We will talk about it all together. I know that this isn't your fault, so please stop worrying about it." I wanted to make him feel better. All of his pleading and apologizing, it was starting to get to me.

"Not my fault? How can you say that? I put you in the hospital. I have done so much to hurt you. I am a horrible person."

This obviously wasn't going to end anytime soon. So, what I needed to do was start to implement the plan that we had all thought up before Justin got here. I needed to make sure that I did what I was supposed to do, so that the next stage went off without a hitch.

"Makai, do you want a drink? I'm thirsty. What about you Justin? Do you want a soda, some water, juice?"

"Anything is fine with me." Justin still looked so pathetic.

"Surprise me." Makai smiled as I went to leave the room.

I started the plan right then. I needed to sing to Justin. I needed to put him into a stupor so that he would be more easily manipulated when the doctor did what he needed to. And this time, I wasn't going to force my song to rhyme. I was going to just make up words that I thought would work. If they didn't, then I would go back to being a Dr. Seuss knock off.

"??? When I sing, he starts to feel sleepy. The more he hears my words, the heavier his eyes feel."

"What? Why is Ocean singing?" Justin sounded so confused. Dammit. I hope this works.

"He just loves to sing. When he gets a song stuck in his head, he just can't help it."

"Oh." Apparently, that was all it took to convince Justin. Meanwhile, I kept singing loudly from the kitchen. It was meant to make him pliable and readily hypnotized. This time, Dr. Malachi was going to go into Justin's mind.

"??? My words are like a spell to him. He follows them like he is a puppet on a string. The more that I sing, the more that he wants to do as I say. And what do I say? What is it I want him to do?"

"W..w..what is it, O..O..Ocean?" Justin was already sounding like he was in a trance, but he was answering me, asking me for more. "Wh..wh..what do y..y..you tell him? What d..d..do you m..m..make him d..do?"

"??? I tell him to close his eyes. To dream a little dream. To open his mind so that he doesn't need to be hurt anymore. I tell him to let me help him, in the only way that I know how. I tell him that it's all going to be OK."

That was it.. Justin was out.