TADHG
"Tadhg!" My dad shouted, calling me from somewhere downstairs. "Come help bring some boxes inside!" I walked out of Leah's room, it was as if I'd been put in a trance the moment I walked into her room.
My mind was all jumbled, I wasn't quite sure what happened after my dad asked me to help him. I couldn't remember much at all but somehow I'd ended up back here.
The place I never wanted to go back to.
I'd buried it so far back in my head, I hadn't even realised where I was for a while.
With him.
Alone.
In his room.
She just watched.
She didn't stop him.
I couldn't stop him.
"Tadhg,love. You need to wake up. Please!" I couldn't tell who was speaking, the only thing I could hear was raw desperation.
Her voice was becoming clearer by the second.
It was Dellie.
My Dellie.
Edel Kavanagh.
I still couldn't see properly but I could tell when someone had been crying.
Dellie was crying, because of me.
Because of me.
Because of…
Me.
My eyes slowly opened, a white tiled ceiling staring back at me. As my eyes got used to my surroundings I knew where I was. I had a tube attached to my arm while I was laying in a bed at the hospital.
There were three people surrounding me. They all looked like doctors, I don't know why there were so many nurses or doctors or whoever they were here.
"He's alive." The doctor stepped away from me, they left after a few minutes.
A hand covered mine, "Tadhg, how are you feeling sweetheart?" Dellie had been crying, I was right. She might've been smiling right now but her eyes were red and puffy.I didn't want her to waste her tears on me. I just didn't want her to cry. Especially not because of me, I wasn't worth crying over.
"I'm fine." I replied, pasting a small smile on my face. She was about to reply, I could tell by her face she was going to tell me the same bull she always says after I hurt myself. "It's okay to not be okay Tadhg."
She barely even started to speak before the door swung open. "Where is he?" The door slammed shut behind him. It was Joey.
"You scared the living shit out of me Tadhg." Joey continued to speak, "You're not allowed to die first, understood?" He asked me, and I replied with a weak nod. I'd rather not move my body because it hurts like hell.
"Stop talking about death, no one's dying." Dellie spoke up.
"Yet." Joey replied as he sat down on the edge of the bed.
"Where's Leah?" I asked Dellie to divert the conversation.
"Who's Leah?" Joey looked at me with a smirk growing on his face.
"I told you earlier, she moved in next door with her dad." She continued speaking. "She's at home helping Shannon with the kids. Tadhg love, you should get some rest so go to sleep while I talk to the doctors about discharging you." Dellie let go of my hand before leaving the room.
It was just me and Joey left.
"Get some rest, stud." He patted my leg before following after Edel.
School started back up again in a month and I was a mess. I had a month to fix my act and I was getting nowhere. If anything it was all going downhill because of a certain someone.
She didn't like me much now but she will soon enough. I knew she'd be calling me baby by the end of this month so it didn't matter if she liked me now. We both knew she was just pretending to dislike me but if she wasn't I wouldn't blame her.
I'd never met anyone called Leah in the 13 years I'd been alive. And I wasn't mad in the slightest that she was the first Leah I'd met because that meant she could be my Leah. The only Leah I need to know.
She's been crowding my mind ever since this morning and I'm not mad. If I had the chance to only think about her for the rest of my life I would gladly accept the offer. Then I wouldn't have to think about the bad things. I could have a fresh start, forget everything that happened 3 years ago.
Just forget for a second.
If I could go back in time there'd be so many things I would want to change that the time machine would break. As much as I want to change everything I meant that I'd have to live through it all over again. And I'd rather die than have to relive it.
a/n:
~10/05/24
air the fact that i've been spelling tadhgs name wrong in the other chapters xx
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