The Daywalker's Nightmare- Monday Updates

Chapter One

Eliza P.O.V.

    The hospital room was quiet except for the beep of the heart monitor and the drip of the IV. Shadows filtered through the pristine room making images of doctors, nurses, and medical machines. A blonde girl laid in the white scratchy bed as I watched over her diligently. The blonde was Kailey Rae Colson who was being treated for a gunshot wound on her side and had yet to wake up since her surgery. That fact alone had the hairs on my neck standing up right. She may annoy the shit out of me, but she was my sister.

    "ELIZA!" A tall man rushed in, his blue eyes as wild as his dark turesses. "Is she okay?" The Irish accent was thick as he spoke, fear laced through his silky voice.

    "She got shot, what do you think?" I couldn't help the irritation laced in my words. I had been up more than 24 hours with two family members in the hospital and another passed out downstairs in the cafeteria where I left him, only a couple of hours ago. "Sorry," I rubbed the exhaustion out of my eyes and leaned back. "They pulled her out of surgery but she hasn't woken up yet,"

    I watched Thomas's face go from a mixture of relief to confusion and finally sadness. His face seemed to have more shadows than previous making him look far older than his years. He pulled the other chair in the room over to her bedside and lightly grasped her hand that had laid still on the white sheets. I watched as a look of love and relief filled his face as he picked up her limp hand and laced their fingers together.

    "She'll be okay, she's strong," He told me with confidence in his voice as he traced his thumb across the back of her hand. 'Where does he get off telling me she's strong, he barely knows her.' My thoughts were angry and sad at the same time how he could believe so much that she'd pull through and I couldn't. I had to get ahold of myself after all we had known them for almost a year at this point.

    "How do you know?" I asked, brokenly ashamed, that tears filled my eyes as I felt one roll down my face and off my chin to land on my hands which I clasped tightly in my lap. My fingers were numb and my knuckles white with the force of my own anxiety crushing itself onto my own body.

    He looked me dead in the eyes, blue eyes wide slightly surprised that I was crying. "Because I have faith," I bit my lip not only to stop it from quivering but in a heat of anger. 'Faith that's what he believes in now? How could anybody believe in faith?' "I have hope that she'll pull through," I pushed my eyes to watch Kailey again softly taking in her features.

    "Well you know what they say. Hope breeds eternal misery," I murmured not even caring if he heard me.

    I got up not being able to stand the room anymore. Rushing out and down the hall I slammed my body into the door of the emergency exit. I rushed down the stairs, running out of breath till my legs gave out and I buckled down to the ground landing harshly on my knees. I pulled myself into a sitting position against the wall, knees aching from the force of the landing. My breath raced faster than it should've for the short distance I had just run. In fact I could barely breathe as tears blurred my vision and my throat burned, scratched like I had been screaming for hours. I threw my arms around my bent legs and laid my head down.

    'It's just a panic attack Eliza you used to have them all the time as a kid. Now think. What did dad teach you?' I tried to recall my father's words about what he told me and how he helped me through it. But I couldn't, those memories I pushed so far back in my mind were lost now. I couldn't even recall his face or what his familiar scent was that I knew I loved as a kid. All these thoughts and emotions that ran through my had only made it worse and I felt like I was breaking

    "Dad," I uttered hopelessly in a broken sob. All I wanted to do was scream as I cried there all alone in that empty stairwell

    Why did this have to happen to us?' Kailey getting shot was a kick to my stomach. She was always smiling and happy, never once did she make enemies. The only one that didn't like Kailey was Emilia but that was simple jealousy. Nikolai was fine with her, if not a little awkward due to not knowing her all too well. 'God, who would hurt her like this?' Aidean being in a car crash doesn't help. The police weren't too sure if it was an accident