*****Camila's POV****
"Camz? Please wake up" I heard a raspy voice say to me calmly. I look up to see a blurry figure standing over me, and then seeing Lauren when my eyes focused. "What are you doing here?" I groaned out, sitting up. I was still in the hospital bed, but now with a bracelet on my wrist. I guess Chase checked me in for a little while. I wonder if I would be able to leave to see Dinah's family. I wanted to see them. I really wanna clear things up and see if there is anything I can do to help them. Although I know that's kinda dumb, it's all I can do besides find their daughter...and I'm trying so hard to.
"Me and the girls wanted to come see you" she said, sitting her backpack in her lap. "And, I brought you something" she started as she dug through her bag. She pulled out my notebook, handing it to me. "Lauren. Why did you-...did they let y-...do they k-". She just cut me off by hugging me. "Don't say anything. I know how you feel about all this and I know this book helps make it a little better. It's one of the things you have control of" she said. And as sad as it was, it was true.
"Where are the other girls?" "At Dinah's, visiting the family. Milika told me that we could come over whenever you were feeling up for it" she said as she gently rubbed her thumb over my knuckles. It reminded me of how Dinah used to do this, when I needed reassurance about anything. She could let me know everything was going to be okay, and not even say a word. No one can do that but her. "Can I leave?" "I'll ask Chase, but start getting ready". So I did just that.
Outside my room, I could hear them talking. "She needs this Chase. Any connection to her will make her feel a little better. You can't keep her isolated from the world" Lauren whisper-yelled, but not quiet enough. Chase just looked tired, physically and mentally. I knew he cared, and it was killing him not to know what to do. "You can take her out for the week. She can stay with you girls or the Hansens. If she has anymore hallucinations from the medicine, you call me right away. I'll let you know if you should bring her to the hospital or not". Lauren just nodded and Chase handed her a bottle of the medicine I was currently on, as a way of saying I was free to go.
Lauren leaned her head in, "C'mon Camz. Let's get out of here". The ride there was almost silent, if not for the sound of passing cars and the faint radio. "I heard the kids miss you so much" she chuckled quietly. Every few minutes, Lauren did try to make conversation, but I just couldn't. There were just so many thoughts running through my head, I just couldn't find one to say. "She's alive. I know she is. I saw her" I blurted out, and the whole world seemed to get quiet. "Camz, I believe you. She'll come back to us" she said quietly, reaching her right hand over to grab my left. I hope she was right.
*****Dinah's POV*****
"Get up, Hansen!" I heard one of the guards yell from outside the door. I was just laying in the hard bed, my back turned to the door. I was just tired. I wanted to be left alone. Just for today. I think from being trapped here for so long, I'm becoming depressed. I wanted to get out but I don't even know where I am. I can't get away from her no matter how hard I try.
Speaking of the devil, she herself walked in to greet me. "Good morning sweetheart" she said sickeningly sweet, but it was all an act. "Just please, leave me alone today" I croaked out as I tried to hold back my tears. I was so physically, mentally, and emotionally exhausted. "It's such a shame" she said as she sat down on the edge of the bed, "You're the one I liked the most". "Then why? Why are you doing this?" "I told you" she moved closer to me, "To get my revenge". What did we do to make her like this?
"You said I might die here, right?" I croaked out, trying to hold my tears back. "That's right. But I gotta keep you alive so you can suffer like the rest of your girls are" she said sweetly, rubbing my back. I was disgusted but in too much pain to move away from her. "You also said you cared about me, right? Remember all those nights when we stayed up, you comforting me?" I said while turning onto my back. She just nodded, not really able to say anything.
I think at that moment, I saw the old Alexa come back. I saw pain flash in her eyes instead of the usual anger or rage. As if she almost felt guilty...almost. She grabbed me by my shirt and lifted me up, so that I was face to face with her. "You ruined that for yourself, Hansen. Now you're going to suffer so I can avenge the love of my life". I tried to push her off, but she just wrapped her hand around my neck tighter. I could feel her ring digging into my neck. It was an engagement ring. When was she going to get married?
"What about my baby? If you kill me, you kill her too" I gasp out, trying to pry her hands off my neck. And her eyes softened, her grip loosening. She put her hand on my stomach and I tensed up, "Do not move!" The only one I wanted to touch me like this was Camila. "Please, let me keep my baby. If you're gonna kill me, give my baby to the girls. I want my baby to be raised by her mother" I cried out. "But if I kill you, she won't be able to be raised by her mother" she said as she pulled her hand away. "Camila is her mother too. Camila deserves to be apart of her life". She just nodded and sat with her back turned towards me.
I still had the piece of glass under my pillow, and I thought this might be my only chance. I could get away. It was my only opportunity. "We tried to have a baby" she said, and I froze. Then she moved her hand to her stomach, I could hear her start cry softly. "I lost our baby every time. I did everything the doctors said, but I lost it. Not once, but three times". I put the glass down. "So he said he'd found a girl to carry our baby. But, it didn't...she didn't. It didn't work out" she cried.
"Alexa, I had n-" she cut me off. "Don't talk. Or I'm going to lose it". So I stopped and I let her finish. "I didn't know his plan. I didn't know he was going to-" she stopped and broke down. "I thought everything was going to work out. But then he went to jail. I didn't know what was happening". She just sat there and cried for a while, and I sat there in silence. I couldn't decide what to do with the glass in my hand.
I had to get back to my girls... no matter what I had to do.
