aerie (bakugo katsuki x oc)

chapter 33: it gets worse

"Wait, so she rejected you?"

"Yes."

"But then she got wasted and said that you're perfect and everything she's ever wanted?"

"Yes."

"And then you got upset about something that you had the right to be upset about, and she said your dreams are pointless and stupid?"

"Yes."

"And now she's not talking to you?"

"Not at all."

"And you're sure you can't tell me what you were upset about?"

"Positive."

Kirishima sighs and sits back. "Dude. That's rough."

"I know! She's fucking insane!"

"I mean, I coulda told you that being with Kai wasn't exactly gonna be a walk in the park. She has problems."

"Not just problems! Serious mental issues!"

"I know. But look, if you can't handle Kai maybe she isn't the one for-"

"Shut up! She is the one for me! I have no doubts about that! I just don't know why she's so difficult!"

"Well difficult might as well be Kai's middle-"

"Shut up! Stop acting like you're the expert! You don't know shit about her!"

"Hey, calm down. I do know her. Maybe not as well as you do, but I know her as a friend. Kai is crazy. You have to take everything she says and does with a grain of salt. She's not all there."

"No, that's where you're wrong. She is all there. She's smart, calculated. She's some sort of master manipulator or something. She has some secret plan and we're all her little pawns."

"Dude. I think you're overthinking this. Kai isn't some evil mastermind. She's just a girl. A very complicated, very damaged girl."

   I lay my head on the table and let out a painful groan.

   Kirishima's phone starts to ring, and he pulls it out to check who it is. "Speak of the devil!" he says with a smile.

   Oh, great. So she calls him, but won't even speak to me.

   He brings the phone to his ear. "Hey Kai!" he says, "What's-... Whoa, are you okay?... Okay okay, slow down... Yes, I do... Where are you?... Are you hurt?... How bad?... Do you need an ambulance?... Okay! Okay no ambulance... Okay," He pulls his phone off his ear to look at it for a second, then puts it back. "Okay, I got it. Me and Bakugo are on our way." He hangs up the phone and looks at me, face gone white.

"What's going on?!" I ask.

He gulps. "Kai's hurt."

"What?! Where is she?!"

He starts to frantically put away all his study material. "We're going there now."

We dash out of the cafe and jump into Kirishima's mom's car, then Kirishima tosses me his phone to navigate us to the location Kai sent him.

"Why did she call you and not me?!" I yell as we speed off.

"I don't know, man!"

"Did she say what happened?! Take a left here."

"No."

"How bad is she hurt?!"

"She said bad."

"Why can't we call an ambulance?"

"I don't know! Okay?! She didn't give me very much information! But she freaked when I mentioned an ambulance, she told me to come pick her up. So that's what we're doing."

   After about 15 minutes of driving in silence save for me giving a direction here and there, we finally reach the location she sent.

   "What the hell is this?!" I yell when we stop the car. "There's nothing here! It's just the side of the highway!"

   "I don't know, but this is definitely the location she sent. Maybe she was in a car accident or something. Let's get out and start looking for her."

   We both jump out of the car and start looking in the grass off the highway, the only light being from cars' headlights as they pass by.

"Kai!" Kirishima calls.

"Kai, where the hell are you, dumbass?!" I yell, starting to get a bad feeling about this whole situation.

"Oh, fuck!" says Kirishima. "I found her!"

   My heart drops. If it has Kirishima cussing, I know it can't be good.

I sprint over to where he's standing, and when I lay eyes on her, it's the most horrific sight I've ever seen. She's laying face up, phone next to her ear. She's absolutely drenched in blood from head to toe, even her hair is soaked with it. Her arm and her leg are all mangled up, broken in several different places. She has open wounds all over her body, and the skin on one side of her face is halfway scraped off. Her eyes are closed, and she's not moving. It looks like a scene from a horror movie.

"Oh, god! Kai!" I crouch down and grab her shoulders in a panic. "Kai, Kai can you hear me?!"

Kirishima just stands there, horrified. "Bakugo... Is she even alive?"

"We have to get her to the hospital, now!"

He steps back, looking like he's about to throw up. "We should really call an ambulance..." he says.

"No! There's no time!" I scoop her off the ground. "C'mon Kai, stay with me," I say as I take her back to the car. I get in the backseat and lay her lifeless body on my lap.

Kirishima jumps in the car and slams the door. "Oh fuck. What happened to her?!" he says as he starts the engine.

"I don't know, there's blood everywhere! Bones are broken... It looks like she got thrown out of a fucking car!"

Kirishima steps on the gas and starts hauling ass to the nearest hospital. "Who would do that to her?!"

"I don't know, but I'm gonna fucking kill them!"

"Why wouldn't she let us call an ambulance?!"

"I don't know! Just shut up and drive faster!"

   I try to stop the bleeding, but it's leaking out from everywhere, and there's no way to stop it. Huge chunks of skin have been completely scraped off. There's also blood pouring out of her mouth and nose, which I know isn't a good sign. The car smells like metal, and there's thick, red, sticky blood all over me. I feel like throwing up and passing out.

   This is completely different from the sports festival. Back then, she looked dead, but she still looked like a person. But now, she looks like a mangled and bloodied corpse. It's violent. Gory. And so, so bloody.

   Kai is completely unresponsive. I try to talk to her, or even just get her to open her eyes, but she doesn't move. I can tell she's breathing, but it's labored and shallow.

   It's a harrowing feeling to hold someone you love in your arms as they bleed out, when there's nothing you can do about it. All I can think is, when I find the sorry son of a bitch who did this to her, I'm gonna kill them.

I'm so fucking angry at myself for not protecting her. Some 'hero' I am, calling her a crazy bitch then letting her go off alone and nearly get herself killed. This never would have happened if I had been with her, and it's my fault I wasn't. We could be in Paris right now, eating snails and making fun of American tourists, but I had to go and fuck everything up, and now she's gonna die.

I've halfway lost my mind to guilt and anxiety by the time we get to the hospital. I carry her inside and scream "Somebody help her!"

   Nurses rush over to help, and take her away from me. I follow suit, until they rush into the operation room and shut the door. The red light flicks on, and I drop to my knees.

What the hell just happened?!