A short story (based on a true story)

Jamal

Imagine, being asleep, with no thoughts to cross your mind, when all of a sudden you wake up. This only to find yourself in a strange bed ... in an even stranger room.
Old people in pyjamas and robes sit there in chairs. You have no clue as to how you got there in the first place.
The last thing you remember was saying goodbye to your pals and walking past a bar. Can't even remember if you actually went in ...
Shreds of last night's few memories flash through your mind as you try to reconstruct that disastrous night. Seem to recollect a siren's flash, an ambulance? Police?
You take another look around the room to conclude you have as the matter of fact been hospitalized. Yet no pain, no sign of injurie is to be found.
At that exact moment, as though things weren't bad enough, your father's shadow appears in the doorway that leads to an overwhelmingly light hallway.
Thoughts of shame and embarassement run through your every vein. They fill your head, your heart, you feel them in your every fiber.

Until this day, I haven't been able to look him in the eye.
But still, avaluable lesson I have learnt and you shall never push that deep down again.