Burning love

Chapter 28 (Alessia's POV)

I'm pacing up and down the waiting room. Becky was rushed straight into a scan then surgery. I don't know any details about how badly she's hurt, I just know from Sam's face when we were out on the pitch, it's not good. Most of the team are sat in the waiting room, I can feel their eyes on me.

I wasn't allowed to travel in the ambulance with Becky, so we called for a few taxis to get us to the hospital. When we got here it took a good twenty minutes to even find out where Becky was and what was going on. It's been three hours since Becky went into surgery, we've only had one update in that time to say she's still in there and they are still working on her. That's it! What kind of update is that!

I haven't spoken to Tooney, I just feel so angry at her. She's tried talking to me but I've just walked away from her, I don't want to say something I'll regret. I know this isn't her fault. But she stopped me going back for Becky. What if I could have stopped it? What if she was looking for me and the mad man got to her first?

Mum and dad called a couple of hours ago, I think they said the stabbing was on the news. They phoned to check us girls were ok. But I had to pass the phone over to Beth to talk to them, I just broke down before I could tell them about Becky. They said to Beth they would drive up but it'll take a few hours to get here.

"Do you want to come with me to grab a coffee?" Beth stands placing a hand on my shoulder.

I just shake my head, I don't want to leave incase they come back with news.

"Shall I get you something?" She asks, but I shake my head again. She gives me a sad smile, squeezing my shoulder and leaving the room with Leah.

Sarina is at the hospital as well but she's going between waiting rooms, waiting to hear how the other coaches are. I think I heard Leah say they are all in surgery as well.

How can a day change so much? This morning was great and now it's the worst day of my life. This is much worse than the tower block fire, because with this I know Becky is hurt badly. The tower block she was fine it was just my thoughts and imagination running wild. She was just back on her feet, she didn't deserve this.

Tears roll down my cheeks and I wipe at them forcefully. Tooney stands and comes over to me. She tries to pull me into a hug but I step back away from her. I can see the hurt in her eyes.

"I'm sorry Tooney, I just need some space" I say and step completely away from her reach, making her arms fall back down to her sides.

"I'm sorry Less. I truly did think she would be ok." Tooney said.

"I know. Just give me a bit of time" we will be ok. But I just don't have the mental energy to sort this out right now, I am only focused on one thing, Becky.

The waiting room door opens and I look over to see the surgeon walk in, he was out of his gown and just in plain blue scrubs. He looks around the room in amazement at the amount of people in here. I step over to him my eyes pleading with him to tell me what's going on.

"Becky is out of surgery" he says "she's in recovery. We have stopped the internal bleeding, but she did lose a lot of blood. We are going to be monitoring her carefully over the next couple of days, making sure her blood count goes up and there's no ruptures to the internal repairs we have done. She's currently stable but still in a critical condition. You can go see her, but only two people at a time please" he scans his eyes around the room. "I will let you know she has a lot of tubes and wires hooked up to her, which might look scary."

"Can I see her now?" I ask my voice breaking.

"Yes, I'll take you to her" he says opening the waiting room door ready to lead me out.