Pure Innocence.

Chapter twenty-one.

Xander

Dante makes it to the hospital in less than ten minutes and that's good, considering that it should have taken twenty. When we walk in the doctors immediately take Aayda out of my arms and rush her to the OR. Max called on the way so that they would be ready for her.

We have now been sitting here for three hours with no update and about thirty minutes ago they came and got all of Aayda's information from Lilla. Lilla has also been leaning on Max, and Max has her arm around her waste. I thought I have seen him around school with some other girl but I have been too focused on Aayda to notice.

I got snapped out of my thoughts when some guy came crashing in through the double doors. He has a good haircut with a couple gray and a well maintained beard. He is built just like Aayda, strong and bulky but also a little shorter than average. I snap out of my thoughts when I see him run right to Lilla.

I can't hear what he is saying because it is mumbled by tears and cries but when he makes it to Lilla she just stands and hugs him. Now that I think about it he looks like he is in his forties. His beard is a lot grayer than his hair. After about five minutes of them hugging she pulls back and he hugs Max too. It wasn't as long but it was still a hug.

Im six or seven chairs down from them so I all I can hear are mumbles and cries. Lilla is now crying with this guy and all at once they all three look at me. I just look back at them for a second and then they guy walks towards me.I quickly stand up and he is right in front of me.

"Im Aayda's dad, would you please tell me what is going on?" his makes so much more sense. Now that I can actually see his face you can tell they are related. She looks a lot like him but at the same time nothing like him I don't know how to explain it.

"Hi sir, im Xander and I don't know everything that happened I just went to go check on her and found her in the bathroom. Im sorry." I can't read his emotions, exactly like Aayda. Since he came over here his tears have dried and I can't read the look in his eye.

All he does before he walks away is say this "thank you for finding my little girl." he holds out his hand for me to shake and when I just nod back he lets go and goes back to Lilla and Max. His time Lilla lays her head on Aayda's dad and after only about five minutes she falls asleep.

Lilla was asleep for about an hour before a nurse came in and told us Aayda was alive but her body was overworking itself and she slipped into a coma. She has now been in surgery for almost twelve hours and we are all just sitting and waiting. Dante went home after two hours but I have been updating him as much as possible which is very little.

A nurse walks in the waiting room and heads towards us. When we all stand and meet her half way she starts talking. "The surgery was successful and she was out and in stable condition. Once we get her a good you guys can go in there." we all just nod and she walks away.

After about ten minutes the receptionist tells us which room she is in and before you know it all of us are sprinting inside her room, I mean it took a second to find we probably looked like chickens with our heads cut off to other people but we just needed to find her.

When we make it to her room her dad and Lilla both run to her side but when I see her I freeze. She has bandages covering her boobs and a blanket covering her lower half but you can't you can see her stomach. It has clear bandages covering were her stomach was cut but all I could see is what was under them, almost healed bruises, her skin was still a little blue but mostly green and yellow. They must be almost a week or so old, probably the same time she got the bruise on her cheek. It makes sense, the one on her cheek faded a couple days ago but that was probably only a hard slap.

Max snaps me out of my thoughts when he starts dragging me out of the room, when we finally get out I tug my arm out of his. "What the hell was that for?"

He gives me a look a takes a deep breathe before speaking. " Her dad will think those are from today or from the surgery he won't be able to tell they are old. If you stayed there any longer I could tell you were going to blow up."

"Do you know how or when it happened? Did you know she had the bruises the whole time?" I was angry, very angry. If he is supposed to be her best friend how could he let this happen. Maybe it wasn't the day she got the other one. Im pretty sure she got that one from her mom.

"I didn't know until I saw her just now but I have a pretty good idea when it happened."

"Tell. Me. Now." I was pissed, more than pissed honestly I was ready to kill.

"Im sorry Xander that is for her to tell you, she will when she is ready. Me and Lilla won't let it happen again though. She didn't let us know before she went so we couldn't stop her."

I just nod and walk back into the room. Lilla pulled up a chair on one side of her bed and her dad is in another chair across the room just looking at her, lost in his own world. I take a seat on the couch and do the same as her dad.

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3 weeks later

I haven't left the hospital. I had Dante bring me a bag with all my shower stuff, clothes, and all the school work I can't do on the computer. Lilla, Max, and Aayda's dad left after a day. Her dad comes everyday to check on her and during his visits is when I go down to the cafeteria. Lilla and Max come on the weekends but text me everyday checking in.

It's weird how I have migrated to her bedside. After two days I went to the chair by her bed but everything hurt so pushed the couch over. The nurses give me weird looks but it's whatever. I don't hold her hand or lay with her or any of that cringy shit but I do sit with her. I don't know why I haven't left, I have never even stayed at the hospital this long for my brothers. Stasia yes but my brothers no, after a week I go home.

Today marks three weeks being in the hospital for Aayda though. Her dad already came for his daily visit and Lilla has texted me one hundred times checking up so it's just me and her again for the night.

I sit on the couch and after enough silence I put on the playlist of songs she listened to in my car, her music has became my music.

I finally let myself hold her hand. I sit with her hand in mine and just sit. I sit and think about everything, her bruises have faded and her scars from surgery are healing. She looks tired but still beautiful. Peaceful in a way.

As im thinking I stare at our hands and get lost in my thoughts. When I snap out of my thoughts and back into reality I notice that something has changed. She is holding my hand back, she has a grip on my hand. When I realize I look up and see her lazily looking at me.

All the sudden everything feels okay.

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A/N:IM SO SORRY!! I know I haven't been posting like I should but life has been over whelming. im sorry again.

word count:1391

Bye babes, and ill see you in the next chapter!!