Brave

Old Hero and New Villain

|Hunter's P O V|
The solo auditions are happening, how interesting. I watch Eldon dance, he's good, whatever. I guess you could say I'm kinda bothered by what happened the last week, I mean, he hasn't even tried to talk me since that happened, he's just been ignoring me, whatever, I guess I can ignore back. He wouldn't even be auditioning for this if it wasn't for me, so if he gets it, he'll have to talk to me to thank me, right? I hope so, I just want things to go back to normal, whatever normal can be. Emily stands beside me, "You ready to do our duet tomorrow? I think we might have a chance at getting it." she says.
Since things with the boys have been awkward lately I spent some time with Emily and she suggested we do a duet. It looks pretty good, but I still think James and Riley will beat us, they just have too much chemistry and romance and blah blah blah blah. Whatever, at least if I don't get this I have the small group to fall back on, and that dance is pretty epic. Chloe and Daniel are great dancers and I'm super pumped to perform with them and hopefully get the small group.
"Yeah I'm ready." I say back to her, she gives me a small smile and we both pay attention to the solo going on, well at least she does. Michelle just started her solo, and Emily is all eyes. I think they make a cute couple, and I'm glad I'm let in on their secret, it really makes me closer to both of them as friends. I look over at Eldon, Eldon wipes sweat off his face with his blue shirt revealing his amazing abs, oh my god stop staring, I quickly look back to the floor and try to get the image of his abs out of my mind. Wow that definitely is not helping me get over him. I mean he's ignoring me so I should get over him. He pulls me into a hug then blows me off, I didn't even do anything wrong. You know what, maybe it's a good thing that we aren't talking, I don't need to be friends with someone so messed up anyways. We wait for the soloists to be announced, I don't even get why I have to be here for this, I'd much rather be home than here.
I look around, what if I just leave? I mean nobody seems to be looking. I eye my bag sitting beside the bench, I bet I could quickly walk by, pick it up and leave and nobody would notice.
Whatever, who cares what happens, I walk up to the bench, pick up my bag and head out the door. I hear calls in the distance, but I ignore them, I just need to get out of here now.
I walk down the hall into the changeroom, I just sit on the bench and I take deep breaths. Why can't shit just go right for once, why did everything have to get so messed up. I kick my bag across the floor in anger. I lean my head back and feel an object hit my head followed by a sharp pain.
"You should do that more often." Eldon says to me. He brushes his foot against mind and interlocks our legs together under the table.
I laugh, "What should I do more often?" Eldon smiles at me and looks at me with his sparkling blue eyes, "Smile like that, it's hot." he says. I begin to blush, poking at my food with my fork.
"You wanna get outta here and go to my house?" Eldon grabs my hand across the table causing me to immediately look up and I feel a warmth inside my chest, I smile and squeeze his hand back, answering his questions with a simple nod. We walk out the front door of the restaurant hand in hand, everyone around us seems to be nonexistent when we're together, it's like the whole world is frozen in time and it's just me and Eldon alone, forever. We walk to his house, pleasantly we don't stop holding hands the entire walk home. We get to his front door and we stop suddenly. We turn and face each other, his eyes staring into my soul, nothing but us, our faces get closer and closer, my heart is beating fast, we're millimetres apart and my vision starts to blur and suddenly I can't see anything, I collapse to the floor.
"Dude, wake up, are you okay? Hunter wake up."
My heavy eyelids open themselves, I find myself on a cold floor, so that was just a dream and none of that really happened... I thought it was real. Suddenly a rush of pain comes to the back of my head. I feel a hand briefly on my head, "Dude your head is bleeding, what happened?"
I look up and see Eldon, suddenly my feelings of love turn to feelings of hostility in an instant.
"I'm fine." I spit out, put my guard up.
"No you aren't, you're bleeding out, we need to go to a hospital now." Eldon says, then frantically he reaches into his bag and pulls out a towel, wrapping it around my head and holding it in place. He reaches out for my hand to pull me up, "C'mon dude, let's go I'll drive us." Eldon insists. The pain is getting so intense and I can feel myself getting lightheaded so I agree to go with him. He helps me up and he picks up my bag off the floor and carries it with his stuff. He guides me to his car without taking his hand off the towel on my head. I find myself stumbling and I can feel myself getting dizzy. Eldon helps me onto the front seat, everything from there on is a blur.

|Eldon's P O V|
I hop out of my car and rush to get Hunter into the hospital. Finally years of dance are paying off in real life, I manage to basically carry Hunter into the hospital, he gets sent to get stitches and they tell me to wait in his room, so I do. I know he's okay, but I can't help but worry about him. What if I hadn't of walked in there? He could've died I think. I can't help but wonder what happened to him, he left early then I found him unconscious on the floor. I regret not talking to him this whole week, I just I get all awkward around him and I thought he got weirded out from the hug.
After an hour of thinking and worrying about Hunter, they brought him into his room. He seemed surprisingly okay.
The doctor walked up to me, "Do you know what happened to Hunter sir?" his voice was low and serious, I cleared my throat, "I found him unconscious on the floor of the changeroom at our dance studio, so I drove him here. I don't know how he hit his head though." I looked at the doctor and he was writing something on his notebook thing, he looked up at me, "What is your relationship with the patient? Friend? Boyfriend? Family? Acquaintance?" he asked me.
I wish I could say boyfriend but he's not "Um he's my friend." I answered.
"Well I'm gonna contact his parents to pick him up. You can stay or leave if you like. I'll be in the room next door if you need me." the doctor left the room leaving me alone with Hunter.
I took a seat beside his bed.
"How are you feeling?" I ask him.
"Uhh, I'm okay. Thanks for bringing me here by the way." Hunter's voice was raspy and shaky and he looked up at me with a pained expression.
I sigh, "I'm sorry I've been ignoring you for the last week, I just had a lot going on. I'm sorry."
Hunter looks away then looks back at me, "It's cool, don't worry about it." Hunter gave me a weak but genuine smile. I smiled back and placed a hand on his forearm, "I got the solo by the way. Thanks for pushing me to try for it." I gave him a small smile. Hunter smiled back, "That's good dude. Congrats." he said.
Hunter repositioned himself barely revealing a bruise that was hidden behind his tank top.
"Dude what happened to your back? It's bruised." I ask him hesitantly.
Hunter's eyes widen, "Oh that's n-nothing, nothing. I don't know how I got it." Hunter insisted. I know he's not telling me the truth, but for now I'll let it go considering his state right now.
"Oh okay, how long do you think it'll be 'till your parents get here?" I ask him.
"I don't know." Hunter said with an uneasy tone in his voice.
"Right in here sir." we hear the doctor say from the hallway. I look at Hunter, "Oh no." he says under his breath.
Hunter's dad walks into the room, he didn't look anything like Hunter, he was really tall, buff, and very intimidating. He gave me a not so pleasant glare and I took that as my que to leave.
I squeezed Hunter's arm lightly, "See you at dance." I said before making my way past Hunters dad, I look back at Hunter, who looks slightly anxious, but I leave him with his dad, I don't want things to be awkward.