A Summer Thrill

Chapter 26

JB

I keep passing out due to the pain, every time I open my eyes I can only see Alan and Steve hovering over my face and their voices are like miles away. I keep feeling a sting from the side I was shot and that's a relief, cos I know that Alan and Steve are trying their hardest to get the bullet out. It's not like they haven't done this before, I'm pretty sure they have been doing this for years now, that they can pretty much help themselves if any of them gets hurt. My mind kept wondering back to Victoria, I'm actually glad that I was the one that got shot because if she gets hurt I don't know what I would do to those assholes back on the island.

I think I was unconscious for quite a while cos by the time I finally woke up, I can finally see and hear everything clearly now. I was still lying in bed, and when i looked down at my body there was a thick layer of bandage wrapped around my whole waist area.

The door opens and Alan walks in with a tray of food in his hands. He smiled at me when he saw that i was fully awake now.

"Glad you're up, take the pills. They'll help with the pain and try to finish this soup as well okay? Zara and I helped make it." I slowly helped myself up to sit while Alan sat down beside me and placed the hot bowl of soup in my hands.

"You and Zara huh? Pretty interesting." He glanced at me and I smirked knowingly at him.

"Yeah, she's quite interesting." His tone changed and he started smiling now. Something I haven't seen him do before.

"So, something going on between you two yet?" I asked him before taking a spoonful of chicken soup in my mouth and surprisingly, it tasted better than I had expected.

"I guess. I know what you're trying to do man, just hurry up and finish your food." I chuckled and then gave him a long serious stare.

"I'm sorry dude." He nods in understanding.

"Yeah I know. We can't be serious about what we feel for this girls man, they don't belong in our world and I get that. They're leaving for good." I nodded.

I wasn't suppose to catch feelings in the first place, Victoria and i wasn't suppose to happen. If only we didn't get close in the first place then I wouldn't be feeling this way. To feel so devastated that I have to let go of everything we've started to have, so I can protect her. We all have to let go because it's the only way to keep them away and safe from the bad people involved in our lives. Getting too attached will only drag them into this deeper than they already are and that's the last thing we would want for them.

Fuck, how am I suppose to do this?

"Where are they?" Alan jerked his head to the side.

"Waiting outside. Victoria is really worried sick about you." I chuckled to myself.

Of course she would be worried the most.

"Can you tell them to come see me right now? I think it's time we tell them that they're safe to go back to Chicago now." Alan sighed heavily before standing up and walking to the door.

He opened the door and motioned with his hand for them to come in. Victoria was the first to walk in the room, and I could easily tell that she had been crying for awhile. She quickly walked towards me and wrapped her arms around me, burying her face at the crook of my neck. I swallowed the tight knot in my throat and slowly hugged her back. It's starting to feel like that everything is hard for me right now. She's the only girl that I have only liked and felt about this way and I liked the way that we were both starting to get along really well and have become something more than being just friends.