LEFT BEHIND | Scarlett Johansson x Daughter.

CHAPTER 59 - GET OUt alive. *

"She will wake up soon." 

"They gave her narcan to..."

"Her friend said she was having chest pains..."

"She had a seizure..."

"Her heart stopped beating for 3 minutes..."

"We can keep her in for a detox..."

"Her bed is ready at a rehab, they can..."

"Scarlett? Scar? Hey..." Louise's hand touching my shoulder has me flinching back into reality. 

That reality being sitting in this hospital waiting for JJ to wake up. 

She overdosed. 

She was just coming home from school and she overdosed. 

Alex didn't 100% know on what. He said she has been using cocaine but recently got into talking about opioids...

I don't...

Alex also said he has been trying to get her to stop. He showed Louise all their text messages even offered to do a drug test to prove he was sober, prove he doesn't do drugs, apart from weed he smokes every now and then to deal with anxiety but admitted he hasn't done it in months...he was a sweet boy. He cares about her a lot. It's hard to still trust if she is safe around him. 

I want to believe him. 

I also wanted to believe her going to this school would help but...now she is in a hospital bed. She died. She overdosed on drugs that someone from her school was getting her. 

Alex wouldn't tell us who, or well he said he truly didn't know. That JJ would just have them...

I should have noticed her getting money out from her bank card but I just assumed it was for her lunch, or her seeing her friends. I should have spotted this sooner.

I could have stopped this.

"Scarlett."

"Huh...Yeah, yeah sorry..."

"It's okay. A lot is going on right now. What do you need?" Louise asks me, her hand still on my shoulder, her eyes full of sorrow.

"I don't- I don't know." I'm tired. I've been traveling all day to come home, I just want to sleep but I can't. I can't leave her. Even if I could, I'd never be able to sleep. 

I'd see her face behind my eyelids, her pale and cold skin...Her body convulsing in the ambulance...just, I can't. 

"It's my fault isn't it. I left, she got worse, she pulled away, distanced herself, showed all these signs of diff-"

"Scarlett, stop. Listen to me." 

"I can't. I can't!"

"Scarlett, breathe. Let's take a minute. JJ is alive, right now that is what matters, that's what is important." Louise is right. Right now what is important is that she is alive. She is breathing. Just about but she is. She is safe here, in this hospital. She is being looked after and she is alive. 

I nod my head to Louise as I lower myself into my seat. I can't stop thinking about all of this, JJ's behavioural changes over the past 3 months, everything that has led to this moment. What is now going to happen when she wakes up...