Summer Love

Chapter 13

July 2011

Carter's POV*

I sat on the porch with Niall by my side until the ambulance arrived. Zayn was in his cabin with Gabbie calling for the emergency vehicle. I'll be surprised if Gabbie even comes out considering how bad she is with blood.

"You alright?" Niall asked placing a hand on my back and moving it up and down. I gave him a small smile of reassurance.

"Yeah, I'm alright." I replied with a shrug.

Niall could sense my nervousness so he took my hand and laced our fingers together.

"I'm sorry I ruined your day." I said, keeping my eyes locked on the dirt ground. Niall seemed taken aback by my statement so he shifted his body to face me.

"Hey, don't say that. You didn't ruin my day." He replied and I shrugged my shoulders again letting a sigh escape my lips.

"Look at me." Niall placed his thumb and index finger gently on my jawline, moving my head to face his.

"If anything you improved my day. I would love to sit in a hospital room with you for hours. It would be my pleasure to accompany such a beautiful girl." Niall smiled causing me to do the same.

"Thank you." I said. He planted a kiss on the top of my head then stood up at the sound of sirens in the distance.

"That's the ambulance." Niall said from above me.

Sure enough, a flashing vehicle pulled up right next to where we were and two paramedics jumped out. A tall, built paramedic jogged over to me.

"Hi my name is Steve. I'll be assessing your injury today. You are?" Steve said, extending his hand towards me. I shook it then answered his question.

"I'm Carter. This is Niall." I responded making Steve make and oh noise with his mouth.

"Alright Carter. Can you tell me what happened?" He calmly asked as he began to dig through his medical bag.

"We were swimming in the lake and I stepped on a glass bottle. I cut my foot pretty bad." I replied. Steve pulled out some gauze and a bottle of what I'm assuming is cleaning medicine.

"Okay. Well I'm going to unwrap this from your foot and see what you've got going on." Steve said.

I nodded my head and looked up at Niall who was studying Steve with careful eyes. I grabbed Niall's hand and squeezed it, focusing his eyes back on me. He intertwined his fingers with mine which allowed me to relax a bit.

Steve took the bloody t-shirt off my foot and placed it on the porch next to me. He tilted my foot up and down, examining it closely.

"Okay well you're going to need at least six stitches. I'm going to wrap it and clean it for now then we will get going to the hospital." Steve stated. I nodded my head in understanding then he began to prep my cut.

"This is going to sting." He said as he sprayed the bottle of cleanser on my foot. I winced and squeezed Niall's hand tightly. He leaned down and planted a kiss on my cheek.

Steve wrapped my foot in gauze then waved the short paramedic over with a gurney. They carefully slid me on to it and then wheeled me inside of the ambulance.

"Niall wait!" Zayn yelled from his cabin. He jogged over to us and had a phone pressed to his chest as if he was in the middle of a phone call.

"You can't go with her." Zayn managed to get out between breaths of air.

"The hell I can't." Niall said trying to push past Zayn to get inside the ambulance.

"No Niall you really can't. I'm on the phone with Simon. He said the paparazzi would be all over that place in an instant. We can go just not with the ambulance. We can't risk messing up all the work you've done to stay out of the spotlight." Zayn explained to Niall. He looked like he was on the edge of crying and had a shaky hand in his hair.

"I have to go with her. I can't leave her alone. I promise I would be with her every step of the way. Zayn I-"

"Niall, Niall look at me. I'm okay, alright? I'll be okay for twenty minutes without you. Look at me. Just breathe." I said trying to talk Niall off the edge of an anxiety attack. He looked at me with red, watery eyes then took a few deep breaths and neared the ambulance.

"Gabbie can go with her. Gabbie!" Zayn screamed over his shoulder to his cabin.

"See I'm fine." I added on to help ease Niall's nerves. He paced back and forth for a minute then entered the ambulance.

"Niall-" I began but he cut me off by planting his lips softly on mine. Before I could even respond by kissing back, he pulled away and smiled.

"I'll be there soon, love." He whispered then exited the vehicle. I smiled to myself at his sweet gesture.

"I'm here." Gabbie said out of breath as she ran inside of the ambulance.

"Are you sure you'll be alright with the blood aspect?"

"I don't see any now so yeah I'll be fine." Gabbie replied.

In a swift movement, Steve climbed in and the short paramedic got into the drivers seat. Steve closed the doors of the car and then we drove off to the hospital.

I hope Niall will be okay.

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