Saving the Monster

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To save my childhood friend, Jason, I became a vegetable. The next year, he brought a girl, Ashley, home to my parents and said, "She's an orphan. She can take care of you in your old age."

For ten years, I was trapped in my own body, witnessing Jason and Ashley fall in love. I also witnessed Ashley inheriting all of my parents' estate. The day I was finally about to wake up, Jason pulled out my oxygen tube. "Finding a new identity for Ashley has been a real headache," he muttered. That's wh