She Was Grace

Chapter 16

Derek's POV

I grabbed the blood covered knife and washed the evidence before anyone could tell. I stuck the knife back in its holder in the kitchen where I found it and grabbed my keys off of the table.

In the garage, I slid into my car and put my key in the ignition.

"Shit." I looked in the rearview mirror. There was blood on my face. But it wasn't mine.

That's when I realized what I had done. How could u do that... To my best friend. To Daniel! To Grace...

"Damnit!" I hit the steering wheel repeatedly until my hands started to bleed. I didn't know I was crying till the tears drowned my lap. I wiped the blood and tears off of my face and picked myself together. "I have to be with Grace." I told myself.

I opened the garage door and headed for the hospital thinking she would be there. I couldn't tell her what happened with Daniel and I. But of course it wouldn't be the first time I've lied to her...

When I reached the hospital, the doors slid open and nurses were running all over the place.

"Uh- excuse me can I se-" a nurse in pink scrubs bumped into me.

"Is Grace Sutton here? She's pregnant with my baby..."

The woman slid behind the counter and typed something into the computer. Her nails pressed on the keys and made a slight tapping sound.

"Uh, yes she is..." Her tone was depressing. "She's in room 345" she gave me a fake smile and pointed me down the hall.

I ran, knowing something was wrong. She couldn't be having this baby yet... It's way too soon.

"Grace? Grace!" I saw her laying on the small bed covered in blood. Her face was sweaty and she was definitely in pain.

I swallowed as I got closer.

"Are you Daniel?" A doctor grabbed my shoulder from behind.

I swung around. "Uh, yea..." I lied. "What happened to her..." I didn't know what else to say.

His face fell and he shook his head. "She slipped into a coma, the amount of blood lost was horrific. Her stab wound was the main cause, but she's also having trouble breathing due to a collapsed lung. Daniel, it's hard to find B-Negative blood at such short notice."

He gave me a limp smile and shut the door behind him as he left.

"Oh grace..." I sat down on the chair beside her bed. Her brown hair was matted with blood and her freckles were hidden. "I've ruined your life baby. This is all my fault. I should've done something that night those men attacked you." I started crying again.

By the time I stopped, my eyes were droopy and I was half asleep on the chair.

"Derek!? What happened?! Where's Daniel?!" I swung around. It was the gay one and his emo boyfriend.

I wiped the tears away, once again, and shot up from the chair. "Uh, Elijah... Sorry, um... Ca-" I pretended not to know his name.

"It's Caleb. We've only lived in the same house for a year Derek..." He looked annoyed. Nice.

"What. Happened. To. Grace." Elijah looked pretty pissed.

"She slipped into a coma. Her right lung is collapsed and she lost a lot of blood... That's all the doctor told me."

"What's that..." He pointed to her right shoulder.

"Oh, yea... She was stabbed." After saying it, I realized I had put no emotion into it. I should be upset and destroyed.

"Stabbed?!?" He rushed to her side pushing me out of the way.

I sat back down on the plastic chair and fell back asleep.

THREE HOURS LATER

"Ahhhhh! Help!!" I awoke again, my heart pounding.

It was grace. She was sitting upright on the bed holding her enlarged stomach.

"Ahhhgh." I could tell by her face she was in agony. I rushed to the side of her bed and held her hand. When she saw me, she pulled her small hand away from mine. Her face was terrified and angry.

"Help! A doctor!" Elijah and Caleb were still here and they must've been asleep as well.

A herd of doctors and nurses plowed through the door pushing us all out of the way. I fell out into the hallway and the fore slammed behind me.

"Wait! I'm the father! I have to stay in here!"

I could hear her screams through the door.

"No... Grace..."