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🕸Chapter...31🕷

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"Hello"

"Sky..." She calls out breathless and I instantly start worrying.

"It's Oren..." She says in a hoarse voice.

Those two words were enough to make me start panicking.

"What happened ?" I start asking. 

"Where is he ? Is everything okay ?What can I do to hel-"

Before I can finish Jessica cuts me off.

"Sky... breathe." She says and I do.

I hear Jessica clear her voice on the other side of the phone. " Sky... I'm at the hospital. Oren was admitted here two days ago..."

Once Jessica says those words it then hits me.

Oren hasn't been in school for the last two days because he's in hospital...

"Jessica is he okay ?" I ask, barely recognizing my own voice.

She goes quiet for a while and I hear her sob.

"Jessica... is Oren okay ?" I ask once again and I feel cold shiver running down my spine.

Why is she not answering ?

"I'm going to text you the address to the hospital we're in..." After that the line goes off.

A second later my phone beeps. When I check it, it's a text from Jessica with the hospital's address.

I let out another heavy sigh then head to my closet to quickly change.

I get into a black plaited skirt, a grey t-shirt and black ankle boots.

I pick up my bag, stuff my phone and Oren's grey hoodie inside, then head to my dad's study.

I find him passed out on his desk with three empty bottles of whiskey beside him.

It's just like when he and mom separated...

I kiss him on the forehead then run to the garage where I find Will leaning on dad's Audi.

I give him the hospital's address and seconds later we drive off.

***

When we arrive at the hospital the smell of antiseptic makes me sick.

This is the same hospital that I brought Oren to on my first day in school.

I directly head for the front desk where a brunette nurse in green scrubs is seated. She looks busy by the way she's typing onto the computer.

"Excuse me... " I begin. "Uhm... I'm here to see Oren Kruse." I say.

She looks at me for a while before typing Oren's name.on the computer.

"Fourteenth floor... room twenty eight." She says I a flat tone then goes back to typing.

I run towards the elevator and a minute later I'm in the fourteenth floor.

I immediately see Jessica face chatting with someone. When I get closer I see it's Lexus and Holden.

They must be missing her...

It's 7:00 pm and she's here with Oren rather than there with them.

When I approach her she looks up at me then smiles. She tells her kids goodnight then stands up and folds me in a tight hug.

She starts crying and I too find myself crying.

"Jessica... where's Oren ? I want to see him !" I demand.

She breaks the hug then sits on one of the waiting chairs outside and I follow suit.

"Jessica ! What happened !" I snap.

"H-His convulsions are back." She says and I gasp.

"Worse this time. Something must have triggered them... he must have been angry, upset, worried..."

It then hits me... I did this !

Angry...

Upset...

Worried...

It's all because of me...

"Can I see him ?" I ask Jessica and she nods a yes.

"Though he's asleep. They injected him with... sedatives because of his insomnia."

"Okay" I manage to say.

I watch Jessica stuff a few of her things in her bag. She looks tired and worn out.

"I'm going home for a few hours to tuck Lexus and Holden into bed, get a few of Oren's clothes then come back to stay with him for the night. I won't take long..." She says.

"I can stay with him for the night." I suggest and she widens her eyes and raises her eyebrows reflecting shock.

I really want to spend a couple of alone time with Oren.

I want talk to him... and I want him to talk to me.

I want to know what caused his convulsions this time...

Me...? Or some memory of Alley...?

If it's me... I want to apologize.

"Please don't say no... " I plead with her. "Just come back tomorrow... please."

After a couple of minutes of having an internal battle with herself... I think, she finally says yes.

"What about school tomorrow ?" She questions.

"Tomorrow is Sunday..." I remind her and she mouths an 'O'.

"I really am tired..." She says and all I do is smile.

Once Jessica leaves I take out my phone and text Will telling him I'll be here for the night, and to my surprise he doesn't put up fight.

***

I hesitantly walk into Oren's hospital room and just like any other room, it's white.

I see Oren sleeping on the bed just like Jessica said.

His skin seems pale. He has an IV drip attached to his left hand while an oxygen mask covers half his face.

His knuckles are covered with clean white bandages. The cuts on his hands are half healed while his burst up lip is now a faint purple.

I walk to where he is and that's when I notice the note pad next to him.

I place my bag on the couch then occupy the seat next to the bed.

I pick up the note pad and it's full of random sketches inside.

Did Oren do them ?

I continue looking at them but gasp at Oren's last sketch.

It's a sketch of... me.

Then I start recalling what he was trying to tell me that night after dropping me off at Charlie's place...