"I'm sorry" Shawn repeated for the 15th time.
"What are they saying?! Are they on their way!? Is he going to be okay!?" I was stroking Cam's hair, trying to ignore the big pile of blood. My hand trailed down to his face and my fingers ran across his cheek. He was so pale.
"I'm sorry" 16th.
"Yes, it's a fucking emergency! Are you not listening to me!" Taylor was screaming into the phone.
"It's gonna be okay" the tears rolled down my cheeks. "you're going to be fine" I whispered.
"I'm sorry" 17th.
"Well when are you going to get here!?" Taylor yelled.
"It's all gonna work out, you're gonna get better, and you're gonna be okay, and everything's gonna be fine" I whisper, my tears falling on his face.
"I'm sorry" 18th.
"Shut up, Shawn" I hiss, turning my head for a second to glare at him. He jumped and backed up, hung his head and put his hands together.
I turn back to Cam, and the sight makes me cry even more.
"They're on their way" Taylor runs towards me and drops to his knees on Cam's other side.
"Should we move him?" Taylor asks.
"Are you stupid? No, of course we don't move him!" I yell, smacking his hands away from Cam.
"You could make the injury worse by moving him" I calm my voice and Taylor nods, standing and walking next to Shawn.
"She won't hate you forever" I hear him whisper.
"It's happening again" Shawn whispers back, I can hear from his voice that he's about to cry. "But this time it's not from me protecting her, it's from me hurting her.." his voice cracked.
I could hear the sirens approaching and soon men were rushing into the house, putting Cam on a stretcher, and hauling him away.
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"I'm sorry" Shawn whispered.
"Can you drive any faster?" I urged Taylor.
"do you want us to get pulled over?"
"Damn ambulance people, not letting me ride in the ambulance with Cam" I cross my arms and slouch in my seat.
"You mean paramedics?" Taylor laughs.
"How the hell do you know that word" I look over at him.
"I know stuff" he shrugs.
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I didn't wait for Taylor to park the car; as soon as the hospital entrance was in sight, I told him to slow the car and I jumped out, running to the front desk.
"Dallas, Cameron. Which room?" I ask as I run.
"Name?"
"Dallas, I already told you!" I stop at the desk and the lady gives me an annoyed look.
"Your name" she rolls her eyes and pops her gum.
"Jessica Mendes" I hold my anger back. Getting angry at the woman would not help me get to Cam any faster.
"Are you a relative?" she looks at her computer screen, smacking her gum.
"No, I'm his girlfriend"
She turns to me and blows a bubble. "Sorry, only family are allowed"
"Just tell me the damn room number!"
"Jess, calm yourself. Don't yell at the nice lady" Taylor says, running towards us with Shawn trailing behind.
"Look, if you don't tell me the room number I'm just going to parade through the whole flipping hospital and look through every single door until I find him you bi-"
"Okay, that's enough" Taylor puts his hand over my mouth and drags me away.
"We will wait here until they're ready for us" he says, sitting in a waiting chair and pulling me into his lap.
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The phone at the desk rang and the skank picked it up. Her expression went to annoyed very quickly. She kept the phone by her ear and slowly looked over at me, talking into the phone. She set it down and called over to me.
"Hey, Mendes, you're boyfriend is ready for you" she groaned.
"Thanks.. for nothing" I scoff as I walk past her.
"Room 42" she sighs.
I run down the hall until I see the door marked with 42 and I push the door open. "Who are you?" a small woman with an Asian accent yells at me and pushed me out of the room.
"I'm his girlfriend"
"Did doctor say okay?"
"The nurse at the front desk told me I could.."
"Okay" she shrugs, moving past me. "But no kissy kissy! He resting"
"Yeah, sure, whatever" I push past her and rush over to the bed where he lie.
"I love you" I whisper, taking hold of his hand.
"He's resting now, but he should wake soon"
I jump and see a doctor standing in the doorway.
"When?"
"He should wake. He hit his head pretty hard on what seems a tile floor?"
I nod.
"Yeah, he has a concussion. It was an open wound with a severe scalp injury, which makes the concussion weird. Since it was an open wound, there should've been much worse damage. He's a lucky guy."
"Thank you" I was crying again.
"If he doesn't wake in two hours, call the nurse in and we'll inspect the injury for further damage to make sure he doesn't go into a coma"
"Oh shit" I say under my breath. My eyes widen and I smack my hand over my mouth, looking over at the doctor. He chuckles.
"Don't worry, people swear in here all the time" he shrugs.
I nod my head and drop my hand, looking back at Cam and trailing my eyes all over his face. His color was still drained.
A tear fell down my cheek and onto our hands. "Please don't let him leave.." I look over to the doctor and he nods. "I promise, I'll do everything in my power to make sure he stays with us"
"Thank you" my voice cracks.
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