Best friend or Lover?

chapter 14

I laid in my bed thinking of what to do while I was "grounded". I eventually got a bit tired and closed my eyes.

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I awoke but I heard beeping noises and mumbling of sorts. I slowly blinked my eyes open as everything was beginning to be blurry. I heard voices saying things like, "what do we do now?" and, "is she really gone?"

My vision was beginning to focus now and I could see things. I turned my eyes to my body, and I was wearing a hospital gown. Why was I in a hospital in the first place? All I did was sleep, right?

As my eyes went to other places, I saw Noah pacing back and forth on my right, and Marcel crossed armed asleep on a chair to my left.

"Doc" Harry spoke teary eyed, "do you think you'll be able to save her?"

The doctor turned around and said, "we might be able to-" the doctor rushed over to me and pinched himself. 'Ow!' he mouthed.

"Wow....she's waking up." the doc said.

"Wait really?" Noah pushed his way through them to get to me, "Liv, talk to me! Are you really there?"

Mumbling, I said, "I think so....I...I feel a bit dizzy," I put my hand on my forehead, "but if anything I feel refreshed from the nice nap I just had," I smiled.

"Nap...right" Noah put his hand on mine and held me close.

"What....what was that for?" I asked.

"For just being here and being my sister"

"Ummmm.....alright then..." I spoke.

Harry walked over to sleeping Marcel and gently woke him up. "Marcel....wake up.....wake up....she's back..."

Marcel instantly awoke once he heard those words. "She's what?! Move, move." Marcel pushed his way to me through Harry and Noah, "Olivia!" he hugged me, "I'm so happy you're alive! I've been so worried about you!"

"Worried?" I asked, "alive?"

Marcel looked over his shoulder and whispered, "does she not know?"

"What do you mean by that?"

"You heard me?" he asked.

"Of course I did, what do you mean?" I was pretty worried about myself at this point.

'Can I tell her?' he mouthed.

Noah and Harry looked at each other and then back at Marcel and nodded.

"Liv...." he started to tear up, "well....two days ago was the first day of summer and well...you kind of...didn't do well in the heat of the sun, it was too much for you. You passed out and we called the ambulance, you had never passed out before, so we didn't know what to really do. So they picked you up and brought you here. They hooked you onto this heart monitor and put a needle in your arm once the doctor told us what they think is right for your health. The needle in your arm" he pointed to my arm, "is filled with medication to help you to try and stay alive-which worked now, thank god-but could possibly give you these weird dreams while you are sleeping-or even if it doesn't work the right way, death-"

I nodded and replied, "that explains my dreams when we're..." I caught myself, "you know what, that doesn't matter."

He awkwardly laughed.

"Anyways, it has only been a few days into summer break?" I asked.

"Mhm." Marcel nodded.

"So it hasn't been months?..."

"Um...nope" Marcel sat down on the hospital bed while I sat up. He held my hand and rubbed my thumb to calm me down a bit.

I felt myself getting dizzy again and swaying back and forth a bit, it felt like the room was spinning. "M...arcel...could...could you..." I opened my arms gesturing a hug. Out of breath I fell into his arms. I had just felt my soul lift away from my body. I know that might be an exaggeration, but it really felt like it.

He caught me and there came Harry and Noah running towards the bed. Edward came in at the perfect time, all three of them in tears while I had collapsed into Marcel's arms.

"Oh my...Harry you really weren't kidding" he dropped his bag and hat at the front of the hospital room and sat with the other three. "I know I'm missing the first day of summer school, but this is way more important"

Marcel, looking down at me, holding me telling me everything was gonna be alright. After Marcel prayed and prayed and prayed, the monitor started to beep again, and I could finally breathe again.

My vision/eyes, blurry as hell, opened to see a boy crying hysterically. One thing that the boy said changed my life, "I really loved her. I know she can't hear me, but I planned everything, I really loved her. Why was it her and not me? Everyone loves her, nobody loves me."

"Hey, the three of us love you" Harry spoke, "and I think she really did too"

I said, "I do, I think."

He looked at me then to the other boys and back at me. He wiped his tears on the back of his hand as I sat up slowly.

"You're here? Like actually alive?" he spoke happier than he ever had looked, "Olivia, I love you! I thought I lost you forever" he wrapped me into a tight hug.

"I'll never leave you, why would you think that?"

"D..do you not remember what just happened?" he asked politely.

"I don't think so?" I questioned, "what happened? But more importantly, who are you guys?"

The boy sitting on the bed let go from the hug, "Wait, you don't remember who we are?" I shook my head, "I'm your best friend, how could you not rem-"

"When she passed just then, the needle in her arm moved into the wrong place and well...let's just say she might have lost her memory." The doctor spoke, interrupting the boy.

The boy said, "for how long?"

The doctor answered, "I can't tell yet. It could be hours, days, weeks, or at worst a few months."

I gasped even though I didn't really know what was going on.

"So..she could lose her memory for a few months and there's nothing you can do?" the boy asked.

"Technically, yes. Scientifically, no. We can try to do some things but her memory will come back on its own, you know that, right?"

"Yes, yes I do. I just want her to remember me.." another boy cleared his throat, "right. I want

her to remember us."

"I'll just go check with the other doctors about what I can do. Hand tight, I'll be a few minutes."

The doctor left the room quickly and it was just me and four boys which made me pretty uncomfortable. Like sitting in a room with four complete strangers that are saying we are all friends, kind of suspicious.

A/N:

A bit shorter than I would have written any other chapter, it just took me a while to write this one. I had a lot of practices and I had school and I went away a few times, but I'm back.