Bestfriend | Ran Takahashi

Fight

Ran's POV...

I was in a void. Everything around me is black... I hear people talking.. I hear beeping noises. What am I doing here? Where am I? What happened? I tried opening my eyes, but they're so heavy. I tried again, this time putting all my strength and energy...

White.. where am I?

"He's waking up.."

I turned to my left and saw mama, her eyes were red.. was she crying? She was holding my hand... Papa's right behind her as well as Riri and Rui-nii. Aya.. where's Aya? I turned to look around the room.. nowhere to be found..

"Aya.. whe-" I tried to sit up but my whole body says otherwise.

"Where's.. Aya?" I asked.

I looked at them, nobody wanted to answer me.

"Where's Aya?!" I asked again, desperate to know where she is.

"Ran, sweetie, relax... you'll hurt yourself" Mama told me, putting a hand on my chest.

"Call the doctor and nurses.." I heard papa tell Riri.

"Ma.. please.. tell me where she is?" I begged, tears forming in my eyes.

The doctor came in with a nurse. They checked my vitals and asked me a few questions.

"What's the last thing you remembered?" he asked.

I told him in details, the last few seconds I could remember. I was in a car... or what was once a car.. there was blood on my head. My head felt like it was cracked open. I turned to my left where Aya was...

She was there, the seatbelt kept her in her seat, she was facing me. There was blood on her head, a lot of it. There were pieces of glass sticking out of her skin... her hand.. I was holding it before the crash, but I couldn't reach it now.. there was so much blood..

"I called out to her.. she didn't reply.. she didn't respond.." I was crying at this point.

"Ma.. where is she? Please tell me she's okay.." I begged, but no one, not one of them would answer me. Fuck. I'll just have to find out myself. I pushed myself up and tried to stand up.

"Ran.. relax, you're still recovering"

I pushed all of them away. I have to find her. Aya needs me, I can feel it. I... I looked to see the nurse inject me with something. I suddenly felt weak... then nothing.

I don't know how long I've been sleeping, but when I woke up, Mr. Higurashi was there, talking to my mom. I groaned as I tried sitting up, both of them turned to me, my mom quickly to my side.

"Hey, sweetie. How are you feeling?" she asked.

"Higurashi-san... Where's Aya..?" I asked. He looked down on the floor for a second, then Rui entered with a wheelchair.

"I'll take you to her," he said.

I found out that I was lucky enough to only have minor injuries and a couple weeks of bed rest and I should be fine. The brunt of the impact was on Aya's side. She had some sort of head trauma, internal bleeding, multiple cuts... We took an elevator 2 floors up. ICU unit. We passed by 3 doors... and at the end of the hallway was where we stopped. I couldn't go in there yet, but there was a window where I could see her.

There she was.. pale as the white sheets of the hospital. Wires connected to her body, a tube sticking out of her mouth. Her head was wrapped with a bandage, a neck brace, and her arms were bandaged as well. The only sign that she's still alive was the beeping sound of the heart monitor, it looked weak. I reached my hand out.. touching the window.. I promised to protect her... to take care of her.. but I failed. It's all my fault.. we should've just stayed in Tokyo. Why did I have to plan this trip? If we didn't go, she wouldn't be in this situation.. she wouldn't be fighting for her life...