After a few minutes of waiting and despair, I decided to take my phone out of my pocket. I decided to sent texts to Violet, Winona and Kayden to explain what had happened. This text was simple and was almost like a sample version of what had really happened. Perhaps this is why Kayden called me a few minutes after I sent him the text. I answered the phone with a croak in my voice. Kayden sounded panicky, so I reassured him that I was fine. He disagreed, he said I sound awful. He also insisted that what had happened was not my fault .
For some reason, this made me begin to cry. I didn't want to and had to intention to cry, but Kayden's remark made me a whole mix of negative emotions. Maybe it was because I felt so guilty that I hadn't taken Wendy out sooner, it also could've been the fact that I felt like I had been the one who had tried to kill her.
As I cried, Kayden comforted me:
"Kori, you were just caught a really bad situation. Whatever the reason was that Wendy tried to kill herself did not involve you at all! If Wendy got to know you a little better, she would know that you kind, caring, beautiful inside and out and the most enchanting girl I've ever met in my entire life".
As I cried, I sniffed and opened my mouth to say words that I didn't even expect to come out of my mouth.
"Oh god , Kayden. I love you".
Kayden chuckled whilst I felt like I was about to have stroke.
"I love you too, Keoria Atkins".
I chuckled and suddenly had an instinct to lift my head. Dad was walking over to me. He wore a beautiful black coat, jeans and Levi sneakers.
"My dad is here", I said, "I'll speak to you later".
"Okay-"
"I love you", I interrupted.
"I love you, Kori".
I made a kissing sound into my phone and hung up. I rose from the old couch I had made myself comfortable on and like I predicted earlier: began to cry as my dad got closer and closer.
"Kori..." He said as he rose his arms.
I ran into his open arms and began brawling. He moved me away from the waiting room so we could have privacy and comforted me like I knew he would.
I suddenly felt so grateful for two amazing men in my life: Kayden and my father.Once I calmed down, we began walking out of the hospital and to the parking lot .Dad had told me as we walked that he would explain what had happened with Wendy and why she had tried to kill herself.
"Is she awake"? I asked.
"No, but she's stable and drowsy".
"How do you know? Did you go and see her "?
"No, I talked to Zoe on the phone whilst I was driving here and she filled me in. She arrived her before Wendy even got to the hospital ".
Once we arrived in the parking lot I just stared at the pool of white cars. That all I could see : white.
"Kori, why you just standing there? Get in the car". Dad said.
"But...I don't where it is".
"It's in the parking lot".
"Yeah, but...your car looks the same to everyone else's here".
He nervously chuckled. He probably thought for a moment that the trauma I had witnessed had caused me to experience amnesia.
"What the are you talking about, Keoria"?
"I mean you have a therapist car which all the therapists use to show our they love people's brains so much and everything".
"My car is completely original!"
"Dad, everyone here has a white Mercedes..."
"Keoria! This is not a time for your jokes!"
"I'm being serious, you have a therapist car-"
"Keoria!"
He sighed and rolled his eyes into the back of his head.
"Keoria, Dr.Sanders car has curved windows and Dr.O'Conner's lights are smaller than mine-"
"Dad, they're exactly the same". I carried on arguing.
"Jesus, Keoria! You witness a traumatic event, run over to me crying your eyes yet you still chose to have a childish argument about how I have a 'therapist car'! Have you lost your mind"?!
"Wendy has..."
"Keoria, please just get in the car!"
I stood frozen for a second, looking at all these cars and try to figure out which car belonged to my dad. I don't know why my dad wasn't moving so I could follow him, maybe his car was right in front of us. I slowly stepped down off the ledge and walked up to the car in front of us. My dad wasn't concentrating but received a major fright when I attempted to pull the passenger door open multiple times and maybe tried too many times. The reason for this was because I set a car alarm off.
"Jesus, Keoria! That's Sanders' car! His looks nothing like mine! Wait...what is he doing here on a Saturday? I bet one of his patients figured out a way to try kill themselves...again".
It's official, everyone in this society is clueless.
"KEORIA! FOR FUCKS SAKE!"
He didn't actually say that because he is my dad who respects me and knows I'm a little too young to be talked to like that. Maybe it's also because he's a therapist who has the same car as all his co-workers. He didn't actually say anything, he just began yelling curse words at the sky, I was pulling a breakthrough so I wouldn't laugh. Dad had to run into the hospital probably looking for Dr.Sanders so he could turn his car alarm off. I wonder what happens when you leave a car alarm going on for too long. Does the car blow up or become The Bat Mobile or something?
I decided to look at my phone as the car alarm still played its whiny tune and my dad acted like a mad man. As I unlocked my phone, I saw Kayden had sent me a text. I quickly opened it and put my brain in focus:
I love you , Kori❤️.
I smiled, my whole face was suddenly smiling. I thought it was impossible, impossible to feel this way about somebody. But here I was, receiving a text from someone who seemed to true to exist.
I knew that I was officially in love.
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Dancing on Eggshells
Novela JuvenilMeet Keoria Atkins. Keoria is quirky, unusual, unique, unsure of herself and has too much honesty for her own good. As well as being unusual herself, Keoria 's personal life is far from normal: Her parents are both psychologists who never shut up ab...