Syn's Deep In My Blood - Book 2

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The minutes in the waiting room felt like days of torture. While I covered my worried face with my left hand, a strong and warm grip on my other hand made my head snap at its owner.

"She's lost a lot of blood, Brian." my eyes refused to leave my only source of comfort now. And he didn't back out either. So I had to plead. "Tell me she's gonna be okay."

"She will, Em... She will. We were here on time. We just gotta..."

Before he could finish his sentence, my gaze was forced to move to the door in the face of Jimmy, Zacky, Johnny, and Matt's entrance. I pulled my hand out of Brian's in a blink of an eye to run straight to Jimmy's arms.

"Emily, how's she? Where's she?" Zack asked me, looking helpless, as Jimmy held me tight and caressed my back, which caused a few tears to flow down from my eyes.

"I don't know; the doctor didn't show up yet. I just hope she..."

"Are you family of miss Jessica Lockhart?" we all heard the doctor approaching us, and she went directly to Brian, who stood up quickly, showing Jess' blood stained on his shirt. I saw Zack widening his eyes promptly in shock.

"Yes, we are. Is she okay?" I stepped closer to her, and she turned to me.

"Hello, I'm doctor Lewis." she showed her hand, and I shook it. "She's stable now; we are giving her a blood transfusion. But there's something more I need to discuss with you. Who's her next of kin here?"

I looked around. No one dared to say anything. Zack was so terrified he couldn't even look at the doctor; he was trying to hide his watery eyes. There wasn't any next of kin there, but I had to make something up, or she would never tell us anything.

"I'm... I'm her sister. You can talk to me."

"Okay, come with me." I gazed at Zack quickly, and he nodded with his head, trusting me to go.

I followed her until she stopped in front of a room with closed curtains. Probably where Jess was.

"Your name is...?"

"I'm Emily. What is it, doc? You're scaring me." I tried to smile, but it was far from that.

"Well, Emily, Jessica presented here with severe blood loss and a fever of 104ºF. We controlled her hemorrhage, and we were able to identify the source. Unfortunately, that was caused by a miscarriage. I'm sorry."

I could only frown at that. I didn't see that coming.

"Oh my god, she was... how could she..." I couldn't form a sentence to say, but my head was going wild with thoughts. She's on the pill. She couldn't be pregnant.

"We ran a few blood tests to understand what happened, and they just got back from the lab. I could see in the ultrasound that she was two months pregnant. Miscarriages are pretty common in the first trimester, and she probably didn't know about it. But we also found traces of MDMA in her bloodstream..." the doc pursed her lips, obviously judging.

"So you... you think that... it caused her..."

"Does she make regular use of ecstasy?"

I didn't know what to answer. She just wasn't talking to me about anything. How could I know if...

"Yeah, I think she does." I kinda felt it.

"If that's the case, it explains her high fever. Ecstasy usually increases the body temperature a lot, so if she did it more than once, that's probably the explanation for her abortion."

I was silent for a little while, trying to digest all that unexpected information, but I couldn't really concentrate. Zack would be so devastated, and Jess... I hope she's still strong enough to face this. But deep inside, I knew she wasn't.