How To Save a Life

Chapter 2

Texting conversation

Cas:
Hey!

Me:
Aloha

Cas:
Um well... Would you be angry if I said yes to Annie?

I sat up straighter, biting my lip. Why does she still freaking trust her after everything that bitch did to her?! I sigh and start the next text.

Me:
No I have no control over your life but I do not trust her at all and I don't want you to get hurt.

Very very true. I just wish she would realize that I'm here, for her to move on. I care about her too much for her to be depressed.

Cas:
Thank you so much. I know I can talk to you about anything. Really... You're my only friend after Jen rejected me. Thank you.

Me:
No problem as long as your happy. I'm here.

I feel like I need to straighten things out with Annie but I don't know how. Then I think about Cas. She's been depressed lately after their last break up. She started cutting herself but I would sit on the phone with her until she calmed down. I couldn't stand to lose her. Not now that I like her so much. She doesn't move on fast enough to realize that I'm trying to reach out to her.

3 days later

"Cas! I told you so..." I basically growl into the phone. I'm trying to be sympathetic but I can't help but get angry that Annie did it yet again I set my jaw.

"I...I know it's just-" Cas sobbed. "It's just that it's so hard without her. She told me she didn't love me.... That she never even cared. Not the first or the second time or the third time."

"I know Cas. But I'm here for you. I'm your best friend. Please listen to me when I'm trying to help you."

The line is blank, just blank. I hear a fan.

"C-Cas? Cas!" I begin to grow desperate, knowing something bad is happening. "Cas!" I scream, tears welling up in my eyes.

I tear down the hallway and swing down the stairs. I basically throw the door open and I take my mo-ped, my fastest option right now.

When I finally reach her house after ten long minutes of speeding and waiting at stop lights I crack open her apartment door.

"Cas!" I call into darkness. There is a small crack of light coming from her bathroom.

"Cas?" I throw open the door and stomp in. Her phone sat on the ledge of the sink and the fan was on just like I heard. She lays unconscious on the floor, her wrists cut in deep gashes and a bottle of pills strewn across the floor.

"Oh Cas... No no why did you do this?" I kneel to the ground and place my fingertips against her neck. A small slow pulse beated under my skin. Quickly I slipped out my phone.

"You need to come quick!" I shouted. I dialed in the numbers 9-1-1

"What is your emergency?" A lady asked.

"M-My friend! She... She tried to kill herself. She's still alive but I need help please come!" I told her my address and then hung up.

I pick up Cas' pale face in my hands and gather her into my arms, staring at her sadly. I kept my fingers on her neck to make sure she doesn't leave me.

"Come on Cas... Hold on..." I whisper, tears slipping down my face.

Soon I hear the whine of the ambulance and I'm ripped away from Cas. Everything is in a haze. They put me in a vehicle and started to send me somewhere but my mind was in other places. I thrashed widely to get away. To get to Cas.

I wake up in a room. It's all white and smells like hospital. That's because it is one dumbass. I tell myself and sit up. I'm in a small cot to the left side of the room. On my right is a hospital bed.

Cas! She looks so small and fragile... She almost died. Now there's a beep every time her heart beats and I start crying, happy for her life, happy she's in mine.

I lay down in the bed beside her, not getting under the covers. I swipe a soft brown curl away from her forehead and she lets out an easy breath.

She's still asleep when the nurse comes in.

"Ah I see you're finally awake." She smiles. "I'm Doctor Coben." She stretches out a hand. I get up and take it.

"Deanna." I say. "She's going to be alright.... Right?"

"Yes she's gaining health back and that's why she's asleep. The medicine we gave her should wear off soon. You did a monumental thing... Saving her like that." Dr. Coben says.

"Yeah I.. I needed to help. I just couldn't let anything happen to her."

"She lost a lot of blood from cutting two of her main arteries. She will need to stay a good 4 days. Let's hope she wakes up..."

"Wait! You're saying she might not wake up?" I exclaim. Now I'm angry. Not at the nurse, not at Cas, but at Annie who fucking ruined Cas' life. I know what I need to do but not now.

"It's very slight, dear. We will know whether she will or won't in the next few hours."

"What happens if she doesn't wake up in the next few hours?" I stretch my eyes wide, fear gaping in my green irises.

"Her family will decide when to pull the plug..."

This time, this time I crumple to the floor. A strong blaring in my ears makes me scream at the top of my lungs. Fear, anger, sadness and frustration all suppressed in that single wail of plea to whatever frikin angel is listening.

I feel hands on me, guiding me to my cot but I rip away towards Cas. They push me away. Banishing me to solitude by a curtain. On the other side is Cas but I feel myself slipping into an exhausting rest.