Shine For Me

Chapter 5 - Understand Her

I hoped that everything would be ok. Once she dropped, it was like everything around me dropped.

"Luna? Luna, wake up!" I tilted her head to face me as she started to move uncontrollably. I felt like my whole world was shaking.

Even though I said I wasn't intimate, I am. But only in my head. I will never say out loud everything I feel. That's like tearing open my chest and letting the vultures dive after it; completely insane. I don't "wear my heart on my sleeve." I'm not that kind of guy, but at the moment, I'd do any of that to just have Luna awake.

"Please! Someone, help!" I kept yelling. No one could hear me. The split seconds it took for someone to hear me felt like hours. Gloria came running in with a doctor behind her.

"What happened?" The doctor asked. I shrugged my shoulders, unable to process any words as he pushed me back and grabbed Luna. "Call the hospital!" The doctor shouted at a nurse in the doorway.

"What's wrong with her?" Gloria asked.

"Her body went into shut down mode. Shock." He lifted Luna onto her bed and held her down before she could start another tantrum.

The nurse came running back in, quickly informing us that the ambulence is on it's way. I stood back, watching as Luna wasn't looking anywhere. Her eyes were shut tight, her body tensed. If she could just relax, untense, it'd all be better. Though the whole scene is awful, at least she would just look better.

The ambulence came and men with a stretcher picked her up and secured her on it. Gloria ran with me, right behind the nurses, until the front doors when the doctor here stopped us.

"You guys can't go; you aren't allowed to leave yet."

"My best friend just got sent off on a stretcher for fuck sake!" Gloria screamed. "Let me go!" She tried to run passed the doctor, but he held her back. I stood there, staring angrily at the doctor. My fists were clenched tight. I felt the familiar anger building up inside of my gut.

"Let us go," I muttered with tight teeth. I wanted to punch him. I wanted to push him down, kick him, and run to Luna's side.

Ever since I met Luna, all of that anger I had subsided. I was starting to be normal again. But now that she's gone, sick, and I can't even see her? That anger is boiling, waiting to be used.

"Louis, I need you to calm down and go back to your room," the doctor said soothingly, holding my arm down. I shook his hand away and took a step back. Gloria started to cry. I pulled her next to me and tried to be kind by placing a hand on her shoulder. I awkwardly put my hand around her shoulders and glared at the doctor.

"We'll figure something out tomorrow."

"We might not have until tomorrow!" I screamed. The doctor just stared at us for a moment before gesturing us to follow him. He led us to the front desk. He pulled out papers, pens, and laid them in front of Gloria and I.

 "These are simple, dismissable, temporary, discharge forms. The doctor's give them out for reasons like this. You guys must be back by noon tomorrow. Got it?" Gloria and I both nodded. The doctor signed each form and told us to sign. We both scribbled down our signatures and waited for the doctor say another thing.

"I'll call a cab, but you guys have to pay for it. Remember, noon tomorrow." The doctor waved us off, turned around, and left.

"Do you have any money?" Gloria asked. I swallowed and shrugged a shoulder. "Louis, we need that money."