Storm On The Sea

2/ Eyeliner

"Mr. Rapattoni," the doctor said, causing me to jump. How long was I sleeping? "Dalton, did you hear me?"

"What? No, sorry I just woke up. What time is it?" I asked, he furrowed his brow.

"It's 6:30. But you should call your family and have them come down here, we need to talk." Ummm my family?

"Why? I just got punched in the face. Plus I'm eighteen, I don't think I really need my parents to babysit me." I said as nice as possible, I didn't want to come across as rude.

"Dalton, it's much more serious than that," Christina perked up from the chair on the other side of the room, "Dalton, the punch you took caused minor brain damage and I'm afraid you might have to have surgery, we need to do another CT scan of your brain but it's bleeding quite a bit," he was cut off by one of the RNs coming in, she whispered something to him and then gave me a look of pity...what's going on? "Okay, well it seems that there's more bleeding than I thought so you are going to need immediate surgery, you can call your family and tell them if you'd like to. I'll be back in a few minutes to get you, I need to go prepare the OR." I'm in shock...surgery? Brain damage? How hard had Cole really hit me? I take out my phone to call Sophie.

"Hello?" she answered after a couple of rings,

"Hey, Soph." I said, my voice shaking.

"Dalton? What's wrong?!"

"Um..can you and mom come down here to the hospital?"

"Right now?" Ugh, yes Sophie, right now..idiot..

"Yeah. Um..it's kind of an emergency..I'm about to have emergency brain surgery, Cole punched me and now my brain is bleeding so they need to make it stop." By this point I am on the verge of tears, there's a lump in my throat and I can feel the water forming in my eyes, there's a knot in my stomach from fear.

"Oh my God, bub, yeah I'll tell mom, we'll be down there as soon as we can!" She sounded so scared. I don't want her to be worried.

"Soph," I said, my voice cracking, "don't worry her too much. I'm going to be okay."

"Okay, but we'll be there soon, I love you."

"I love you too. See you soon?"

"Yeah." She said and hung up.  I looked over at Christina who had a look of shock mixed with worry on her face.

"I'm calling Cole. I'm telling him what he did." Wait? She knows Cole? What?

"How do you have his number? Do you know him?" She looked embarrassed.

"Umm, yeah. We used  to be friends. Not anymore though, not after this." she said pulling out her phone. "Give me a second." I can't believe she knows him. I've never seen her before? This is strange. She walked out into the hallway but left the door open, I can still her what she's saying.

Cole, Dalton is in the hospital because of you

Well you should care because he has to have brain surgery

Quit being such an ego-maniac, okay?

Because his brain is bleeding because you hit him so hard

No he doesn't "deserve" it! He didn't deserve any of it! Especially not what you said to him!

Yes, of course he told me. But it's because I showed that I actually care. I even drove him to the hospital to make sure he didn't have a concussion.

No, Cole, I will not come over during the surgery, I am staying right here with Dalton and I'm going to be here when he wakes up

Because I care!! That's why!

She really does sound like she cares..

No Cole, I'm not going to forget about Dalton. He's my friend and I care about him. I'm not talking to you anymore. I just called to tell you what you did and that it isn't a "good thing" like you think it is. You are going to have to pay for this, you know that, right? Whatever, just shut up. Bye.

She walked back in shaking her head, right after her, came in my mom and sister. 

"Oh look at you, my poor baby," She walked over and gave me a hug, "You just look awful. Here I brought you some more clothes for after your surgery." She reaches into her bag and pulls out blue jeans and a red polo..like..mom whatchu doing? hah.

"Umm thanks, I guess. I can just wear this though," I said referring to my black skinny jeans, chuck taylors and black t-shirt.

"Oh sweetie, you don't want to wear that, it looks all sad and dark."

"I like sad and dark. That's who I am." Sophie walked over to me and handed me some eyeliner and hair gel.

"Figured you might want some of the essentials."

"Aw thanks. See, mom, Sophie knows me." Mom just rolls her eyes.

"Who's your friend?" mom asks, referring to Christina.

"Oh yeah um, this is Christina, Christina this is my mom and Sophie."

"Hi," she said with a wave and small smile, I just noticed how cute she is...

"Well, Mr. Rapattoni, we're ready if you are, oh these must be your sisters," he said smiling at my mother. Ew was he hitting on her? This made me shiver..gross. "Uh..Anyways, are you ready?"He asked.

"Yeah I suppose I'm as ready as I'll ever be." He handed me a hospital robe and gestured for me to go to the bathroom and change. When I come back out there's a wheelchair in my room. I sit in it and after exchanging "I love yous" with my family and saying bye to Christina, they wheel me to the OR. It's freezing in here. They have me lay on the operating table and the anesthesiologist comes in.

"Well, sorry to hear what happened. I'm just going to be the one to put you to sleep so you don't feel anything and then I'm leaving, gonna go get me a taco or something." he chuckles. He's nice. He's a thin older guy with a pink face and bald head. He pushes his glasses up on the bridge of his nose with his middle finger and puts an IV in my arm and puts a mask over my face. "Now count to ten and you'll be asleep" I begin to count in my head. 1...2....3...4....5....6...7...8...

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Hey guys! So I hope you liked this chapter! I know I said I would try and update every day this week, but I got busy and haven't had time to! So, my goal for each chapter is at least 1000 words, not including the a/ns. So please, feel free to give me some feedback and I will update as soon as I can!