Your Love Is Like A Drug | Vance Hopper

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SEPTEMBER ??? 1979
LUCY'S POV

I woke up in a bright white room. It was blinding. I looked around and took in my surroundings. I was dressed in a hospital gown. In my left arm was an I.V., to my right was Vance. He was in the hospital bed next to mine, he looked as if he had just woken up.

"Hey" I mumbled. He gave me a nod of acknowledgement. My arm had a sharp pain from the stitches. "How's your hand" I questioned. "It's fine" I could tell he was shutting down my attempts to make conversation. 'jeez sorry for trying to talk, how dare I' I thought sarcastically.

Then the nurse walked in. He was tall but had slouchy posture, he dressed in white with the hospital logo printed on his uniform. He came up to me first, which was weird considering I was the farthest from the door.

He took my arm and began to take my blood pressure with a sphygmomanometer.
"You take chemistry right? With Mr Wall?" He asked me, trying to make casual conversation. I nodded, "yeah.." I muttered.

"I sit behind you..." He drones on but I tuned it out. He's staring at me creepy and he's flirting with me. I try to avoid eye contact by looking everywhere else.

Eventually my eyes wandered of towards Vance. He is giving the guy the deadliest look I've ever seen. The guy starts to get visibly uncomfortable by Vance's look and hurries over to Vance to get his blood pressure. Once he had finished he sped walked out of the room.

The room was quiet. I looked back over at Vance. "What's up with you?" I asked him. "What do you mean?" He asked not even bothered to look my direction.

I rolled my eyes "you know what I mean.. your acting like a asshole" I persisted. He finally looked at me "because we're not friends Lucy. I don't get why I have to talk to you" he explained. He was talking about the fight we had before I was kidnapped.

"That fight didn't mean anything, I didn't mean it" I argued. I didn't mean what I did and said. I didn't mean to kiss tommy, it was a stupid kiss to get back at Vance. He didn't mean to kiss Stacy, right?

"But I did!" He exclaimed. "God would it kill you to be a decent person?" I shouted. "Yeah it would! I wound up in the hospital because of you! I almost died!" He argued back.

Before I could say anything Jamie came in. "Hey.." she mumbled, "is this a bad time?".
I shook my head "come in..".

She shuffled towards the chair that was on the left of me. "How are you holding up?" She asked. I shrugged "my arm hurts like hell but nothing that I can't handle" I responded with a small smile.

" How are you doing? " I asked. She shrugged. "how's you and Finney? " I teased. A smile grew on her face. "I don't want to bore you with my love life.." she mumbled but I shook my head, "I need something to distract me".

She let out a sigh, "I really like him, but I dont know.... I feel like he doesn't like me back.." I shook my head at her oblivion. "Jamie, I've seen the way that boy looks at you, he's head over heels for you. Trust me" I assured her.

Jamie leaned closer into me and whispered, "y'know there's someone who gives you a head over heels look.." she teased. I gave her a look to tell me who. She pointed with her eyes at Vance.

I rolled my eyes and whispered back "hell no, he doesn't even wanna be friends with me.." Jamie shrugged in response "that's not what I see.." she got up from her seat and walked out.

The next visitor was officer Thomas. "Hey.. how are you kids doing?" He asked us as he took a seat. I mumbled out a "fine.." but Vance didn't say anything. There was so much tension in the air between me and Vance.

"I don't know why they kept you both in the same room" he let out a breathy laugh, "lord knows you love to argue.." he let out a sigh.

Silence. The only thing making a sound was the heart monitors and the clocks ticking. "did we... kill him?.." I said in a loud enough whisper. Officer Thomas nodded. "Yup" he sighed in the middle of his sentence "35 stab wounds, he bled to death" he added as he adjusted his suit. I smile to myself as I fiddled with my fingers. I'm glad. That piece of shit deserved it.

"Honestly, not surprised if they find another stab during the autopsy, you guys are fucking crazy.." he said laughing to himself as he shook his head. He stood up, walked over to Vance and hugged him, tight.

I looked away, to give them privacy, well, as much as I can considering I can't get up and leave the room. I heard a mumbled conversation and quiet sobbing.

VANCE'S POV

Officer Thomas sat up from his seat and walked over to me, and hugged me. I don't know why, but the way he hugged me reminded me exactly of how my dad used to hug me, when he was sober. I hugged him back tight, "im really glad your alive Sonny" he mumbled into the tight embrace.

The moment he used that nickname the water works hit. Tears fell quick down my face. I didn't even care that I was crying. Officer Thomas wouldn't judge me. He uses that nickname after I accidentally called him 'dad'.

I collected myself as I felt him pull away from the hug. He walked towards Lucy, I wiped my eyes. He brought her into a hug.

LUCY'S POV

He brought me into a tight hug like he did with Vance. No words were exchanged, it's what made the hug so special. He pulled away and said, "I'll go get Molly, she's been asleep this whole time" and he left the room.

Molly soon entered. She immediately went to me and hugged me, she managed to hit all the bruises on my side but I couldn't care any less. Once she pulled away she went to Vance pulling him into a hug as well.

"I missed you guys so much" she mumbled into Vance's shoulder.

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We talked a lot. Molly filled us in on everything. I asked the question that I probably know the answer to, "so.. where's dad been" Molly let out a sigh and I could tell her mood change, "I don't know, I don't even remember the last time he was home." She mumbled out.

The nurse walked in. It was that same nurse from earlier. "Visiting hours are over, you can come back tomorrow at 9 a.m." he stated. Molly got up and gave me and Vance a hug goodbye.

When she was gone the nurse turned off the lights since patients have a bed time. The dark room had an eerie feel to it, it reminded me of the basement.

I took a deep breath to calm my nerves and closed my eyes.

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Jeez I was supposed to have this chapter up a loooooong time ago but my computer broke and it's where I write all my chapters and I didn't save this chapter so I had to rewrite the whole thing. ANYWAYYYY I hope you guys have a great day/night/morning!

-payton