High Heels and Lip Gloss

Chapter Five

Chapter Five

As Sophie, Jasmine and I walk home, I begin to dread what mom and dad will say. Surely Jessica's parents would have called them to let them know what had happened.

We reach home all to soon. Mom spots us through the window and wipes her hands in a dishtowel. We walk in silently and lay our bags in our rooms. Then we walk back to the kitchen. Dad and mom are sitting at the table. Mom is stirring her coffee.

She picks it up and takes a long sip from it. Then she stares at us sadly with her big brown eyes. Finally dad speaks. "Alright, out with it. We've heard Jessica's moms story, now we want to hear yours."

We take a deep breath and all pour out the story, each adding details as we go.

We tell them everything, playing truth or dare, Patricia daring me to jump into the pool, me blacking out, planning revenge, switching her perfume and toothpaste, oiling the poolside, Nicole kissing Jake, the parents slipping, and being sent home. Dad has put his head in his hands. Then he lets out a deep sigh. "We're disappointed in you, girls. We thought you were mature enough to go to a party on your own. We were wrong. And now, while we are on a business trip, your aunt and uncle will be coming to stay with you. We were going to let you stay with friends, but you have shown that you can not be trusted."

For a moment I just stare at them. Then I start to complain on how it's not fair, and they're trying to ruin our lives, and all of that teenage/parent argument stuff.

Jasmine is taking it hard. She had been planning a week at the lake with her best friend for a month and now she couldn't go.

But Sophie is the worst. Her face gets all red as though her head would pop off any second and then she loses it. She bursts into tears mixed with screams. She had been planning on going to a two week model camp. The fact that now not being able to go makes her go crazy. She tears out of the room and out the front door, not realizing the danger ahead. She runs into the street, right into the path of a car. The driver slams on the breaks and tries to stop in time but its too late. The car hits Sophie and I can hear glass breaking as her body hits against it. I run outside, screaming her name. Mom is right at my heels, dad is dialing 911, and Jasmine has crumpled to the ground, bawling her eyes out.

I reach the car and lay my hands on the hood. It's greased with blood and bits of glass. In a distance I can hear sirens wailing and know that help is on the way. I can hear screaming and am about to tell the person to shut up when I realize I'm the one screaming. Dad rushes up to me and tosses me over his shoulder, tearing me away from Sophie. I claw on him, trying to get back to Sophie. The ambulances pull onto the road, tires squealing. Firemen leap out of the car and set to work. Somehow I calm down enough to hear the firemen's conversation.

"The driver is coming to, but the girl is not showing any sign of moving," says one.

"We need to get both of them to the hospital ASAP," says another.

They bring two stretchers out and carefully lift Sophie onto one. Then they slide her into one of the ambulances, and speed off. Mom has grabbed her car keys and I know she is going to follow.

I manage to get away from dad, running and screaming for mom to wait.

She waits and doesn't say anything but just slides into the caraway and tells me to buckle up. I can see tears streaming down her face and her lips are forming words that I can't make out but I know she's praying.

I am too, with all my heart.

I look over to mom, and notice that she is gradually picking up speed, but I make no comment.

She tears up the parking lot of the hospital and towards the emergency room. Then she leaps out of the car and runs faster than I've ever seen her run towards the door.

She basically pounds on the glass door until a nurse comes and lets us in. Then she runs in, calling Sophie's name. Doctors and nurses run after her, and finally a nurse, one if my moms friends catches her arm and with the help of one of the doctors is able to hold her down.

It scares me to see mom like this. Is Sophie's condition really that bad?

Then a sickening thought hits me.

What if there is no "condition"? What if she's already dead?

I can feel my stomach churn and I have just enough time to reach a waste basket when I hurl up all of the pizza from last nights party.

That's when I feel those hands. Those hands that have always comforted me.

The ones that are now holding back my hair from getting vomit in it.

My boyfriends.

He holds up my chin and strokes my cheek. He wipes away my tears.

I burrow my head in his chest and start to cry again. He picks me up and moves me to the waiting room couch.

Then he lets me curl up next to him, and he strokes my hair. I finally stop and be turns on one of my favorite movies, a chick flick. One of Sophie's favorites as well.

This brings me to more tears and I bury my chest back into his chest. He quickly shuts it off and wraps his arms around me, making me feel secure and safe.

A nurse comes in and says something to me but I can't make it out. I ask Jake, (my boyfriend) what she said.

"She said that Sophie wants to see you," he says.

I sit up and follow the nurse.

"I'll be waiting here," calls Jake.

"Nice boyfriend," comments the nurse.

"Oh yes," I reply.

She leads me to a room and opens the snow white doors.

Sophie is lying on a white cot. Doctors are surrounding her, but I can still see her face. Mom is in the corner, talking worriedly on the phone with dad.

I rush over to Sophie, and more tears spill out onto her hospital gown.

She looks terrible. Her whole face is bruised an bloody, and her legs and right arm look a little out if place. I can tell they're broken. She strokes my face with her left hand wipes away my tears.

"Crying won't make it better," she whispers.

This just makes me cry harder. A nurse has Jake come get me and he carries me out of the room and back to the waiting room. I cry in his chest for a while and fall asleep to him stroking my hair.

~Hey peoples! So sorry for not writing sooner, I've been SUPER busy! Thanks so much for all the reads I've gotten, it really means a lot to me. Hope you liked this chapter, it kind if made me tear up. Comment and vote please!!!