All I've Ever Wanted

Chapter Twenty - It's been a long day

Chapter 20 – It's been a long day

The next morning came around and I was in my room getting ready for school. I wore my Lulu Lemon yoga capris and a t-shirt that I had gotten from Disney World with Donald Duck on it. I really liked Disney you could say. Ashton and Colin were downstairs, Mom had already left to drop Luke off because he was going on a field trip. When I looked at Ashton I felt my face heat up, and then I looked away. A small smirk appeared on Ashton's face.

Colin was stuffing his face as usual because we were running a little late for school, I grabbed a banana and Ashton suggestively raised his eyebrows. I just shook my head at him and he smirked.

The rest of the week passed uneventful, it wasn't until Friday morning that the school got a call from my dad asking for us to have the rest of the day off, which included Ashton as well. My dad left us a message to come to the hospital as soon as we could which really worried all of us. He was sat in the waiting room when we arrived.

"Hey Dad," Colin said when we got inside.

Dad stood up and walked towards us, his face and eyes were red as if he'd been crying. I was wondering where my mom was at, why wasn't she here with us? "Where's Mom?" I asked him, my voice was shaky and nervous as if I was expecting the worst, which was honestly I was.

"Your Mom fainted at work today," Dad explained.

I gulped. "Is she ok?"

"They're running some tests but we won't know for sure until later," Dad explained.

"Excuse me," a voice said from behind Dad. We all looked at the doctor hopeful that Mom was ok. Luke seemed confused as to what was going on, only that Mom was having a really long sleep. "Jeffery Hallman?"

"Yes, that's me."

"Your wife is awake now," he said.

"She is?" Dad looked so relieved. "Can I see her?"

"Not yet, but I figured you'd want to know that. Just give us some time and you'll be able to see her."

Everyone was so relieved that Mom was ok at least for now she was. For the next few hours we sat in the waiting room, it was very painful. Luke kept asking when Mom was coming out or we could go see her we kept telling him the same thing "we don't know."

When we were finally able to see her she was attached to a lot of machines. Luke didn't seem to understand why she was attached to them but he never actually asked any of us which I was a bit surprised about. The doctor explained it could be stress related and might not be that serious so we shouldn't worry about it. Mom told us how she was at work and all of a sudden she had this incredible heart burn and chest pains and then she fainted. The important thing is that she was ok and hopefully it wouldn't happen again. I'm not gonna lie, I was a bit scared that this was more than just chest pains.

Mom had to stay the night in the hospital so Dad dropped Luke off at a friend's house and went back to the hospital to stay with her. Me, Ashton and Colin were all sent home to go to bed since we'd had a long day.

When I got home I put my pajamas on, I was ready for my bed but as I was headed downstairs to grab something to drink I met Colin who had alcohol in his hand and was all dressed up for a party. I stared at him and he stared at me.

"What're you doing?" I spoke calmly as if I didn't believe what he was about to do right now.

"I'm going to get wasted," he said casually.

"Mom's in the fucking hospital and you're going to get wasted?" I exclaimed furious with him.

"I need something to take my mind off of it," he told me. "I'm just going to have a few beers, socialize, get a little high and be back in a few hours." He started walking towards the door, I ran after him.

"You're being an asshole Colin," I said shoving him in the back.

He turned around nearly smacking me in the face, I jumped back slightly surprised at how angry he was now. "You don't tell me what to do!" He yelled. "I get that Mom's in the hospital, you don't need to keep bringing it up all the time. Just let me go out and be a normal teen and we'll deal with it tomorrow." He pulled the door open and started walking down the sidewalk.

"You're being selfish!" I yelled after him. Why's he being so insensitive and cruel, he can't just stay home one night instead of being a dirty pig and going out to hook up with sluts.

"Alex," Ashton whispered from behind me.

I let out a huge sigh.

"Are you alright?" he asked.

"I'm fine," I muttered holding back the tears ready to escape.

"Will you look at me for a second?"

I couldn't turn around and look at him I knew I was going to break into tears and I didn't want him to see me cry.

I felt him touch my shoulder and I couldn't stop myself from breaking down. He turned me around and wrapped his arms around me, my arms snuck their way around his waist as I buried my face in his shirt and cried.

Ashton tried to move us to the couch so we could sit down but I was stuck like glue, I didn't want him to see my red puffy eyes, it was embarrassing. I hate crying yet I can't stop myself.

"Your mom is going to be ok," Ashton explained softly. "You don't have anything to worry about."

"What if somethings really wrong?" I bawled, it barely made any sense but he somehow understood me.

"Just don't think about it," he said rubbing my back soothingly.

I couldn't stop myself was the problem. I knew I was going to be up all night wondering what the results would bring us tomorrow. Hopefully it is just stress and we can move on, but somewhere in the back of my mind I had a bad feeling and that really worried me a lot. I'm sure I cried for at least an hour, a little while ago we sat down on the couch. Ashton wrapped his arms around me while I sobbed, I was incredibly happy that he was here with me and I wasn't completely alone. I think if I'd have been here by myself it would've been ten times worse and I probably wouldn't have been able to handle it.

It was nearing midnight now, I was all cried out and we now sat on the couch watching a movie, but not really watching it. Both of us were lost in our thoughts as Ashton's thumb made circles on the top of my hand it was very comforting and I really enjoyed it actually.

Finally Ashton said. "I think its bed time."

I nodded. "Yeah, I'm really tired."

Neither of us moved though, I really didn't want to stand up, I was all worn out. Ashton stood though and scooped me up in his arms. I wrapped my arms around his neck and laid my head on his shoulder as he carried me upstairs.

He put me down in my bed and then laid down beside me wrapping his arms around me and cuddling nice and close. My heart was racing as we lay there. "Goodnight Alex," he whispered in my ear.

"Goodnight," I whispered back before falling into a peaceful sleep wrapped up in Ashton's safe and comforting arms. 

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A / N : Short chapter I'm sorry! I realize I haven't posted in forever and a day, I apologize! Please hang in there :)