Life On Set

hospitals

Slight TW : Injuries - cuts - blood

y/ns POV

As that bell rings signaling the end of lunch, I quickly whip out my phone to text Lizzie.
"Was someone you know in that movie?" Malina asked, with a slight frown. 
"Yeah, but she lives on the other side of town near the actual place of the premier"
"I'm sure it won't be her, it was a big movie y/n", she rested her hand on my shoulder.

work mother

me
you okay? 

I wasn't too fussed that she didn't respond straight away, with a big event she won't be on her phone anyway, but I still kept the messages open just in case. 

"Y/n Woods". The stern voice of my English teacher came out of nowhere, and I whipped my head up in shock. Maline moved her bag so it was in front of my phone but it was too late she had already seen it. 

"Phone off and away", she said with raised eyebrows
"But miss my-"
"You know the rules, set an example for the younger students, or I'll take it to the office".

I sighed and turned my phone off, putting it back in my pocket when she had turned away. Malina and I made our way to the hall, where our year were all standing in a large crowd waiting to be let in. 

Lilly had saved us both a seat near the front so we sidled in and sat down where everyone got themselves settled. 

"Thank you for being so cooperative team. We'll keep this as short as possible. As I'm sure most of you have heard by now, there was a crash that happened behind the school earlier today. We haven't heard much about the people in the accident, only that everyone involved is currently in the care of the hospital. However this event means we need to reiterate the importance of road safety, as it's believed the crash was caused by careless kids, potentially from this school, which is extremely disappointing. I'm gonna welcome constable ken to the stage so he can have a wee chat with you all about this".

As she spoke I kept zoning out, I couldn't even fully appreciate the fact that the childhood icon constable ken was in front of us. He used to do talks at primary. (fact)

"You good?", I feel a hand on my arm and Lillys looking at me concerned. 
I nod and force a smile. "Yup"

Something felt not right. My stomach was twisted up all weird and nothing about this was sitting right with me. 

The assembly only lasted half the period so I had to go to class for the rest. Finally as the bell rang and I was headed towards the bus I felt my phone vibrate in my pocket. I moved to the side of the footpath and whipped out my phone. 

work mother

Lizzie

Hi Y/n, it's Robbie, Lizzie was in an accident this morning, she's in emergency care and been in and out all afternoon. If you're free I'm sure she'd love a visit, I can arrange for Ashley to pick you up she's coming down at 3.30ish?

I paused, not knowing what to say, my stomach had now leapt to my throat and i sat down on the curb, which was now emptying out. 

I messaged him back and put in my headphones, Ashley was set to pick me up outside the school in about ten minutes. 

When a hand landed on my shoulder I jumped a foot in the air, and whipped around to see Lilly. 
"You okay?", she asked, and somehow that made it worse. 

Tears started coming out of my eyes and I shook my head. "It was Lizzie", I told her, my crackly voice barely above a whisper. 

I didn't need to say more. Lilly wrapped her arms around me and I dropped my head onto her shoulder. 

She hugged me until a black car drove around the corner and parked up next to us. I heard the door open and soon heard Ashleys voice from beside me. 

"It's okay I got her", she told Lilly, who said goodbye and started walking off. Ashley sat beside me, her arms around my shoulders. 

"She's okay Y/n"
"You don't know that"
"I do, she's alive and breathing. She'll be okay"

I sighed and nodded. "Sorry", I apologized, wiping my eyes and sitting up a little straighter.
"You have nothing to be sorry for", Ashley said softly, kissing the top of my head. "Let's go see her".

We got in and arrived at the hospital in just under half an hour. I started fidgeting with my rings as we stepped out, my heart aching at the thought that Lizzie had rode here in pain and all alone. 

Ashley sensed something and her hand reached for mine. We got inside and Robbie was in the waiting room. He gave Ashley a hug and waved to me, I could tell he had been crying. 

"She's not awake yet", he said and Ashley went into her room. I didn't know what to do so I just sorta sat outside and Robbie asked me about school. 

After about half an hour Ashley came back out, she seemed fine but I could see a sad look in her eyes. 

"You can go in if you want y/n? She'll probably wake up again soon", Robbie told me, and I quietly nodded and went in. 

I shut the door and turned and saw her. Lying in the bed completely asleep. Her face had a few marks and cuts but didn't seem too bad. One of her arms was about the same and the other was in a cast, both of her legs were cut up pretty bad, and I could tell someone had tried to wash the blood off. 

I rushed to her side and crouched down beside her, I grabbed her free hand and rested my chin on her bed. 
"I'm sorry Liz", I whispered, but got no reaction