Is it Safe to go Back?

Memories Hurt//Chapter 10

​​The sound of a heart monitor rang through my ears. The room was empty and I felt numb. I tried to sit up because I hated to stay on my back where I see everything clearly, that's when the pain exploded. My stomach felt like it was on fire and the pain engulfed me as if I was drowning but couldn't escape. I let out a little whimper of pain as I lied back down. My hand fumbled around blindly as I tried to find the remote that had the "nurse help" button. When I finally found the button I pressed it and in less than 10 seconds a woman with black hair that was in a bun, she looked like she had no makeup on and had bags under her eyes that made it look like she hadn't slept in days. Her brown eyes looked at me with concern evident in her eyes. I can't blame her though I was a 16 year old girl who just got shot in the stomach.

"You're awake!" she said walking towards me handing me a cup of water that I didn't realize was there before.

"I can't sit up." I said weakly. She placed the water bottle down and moved her hands to be under my back, she lifted me up placing my book against my pillow. "Thank you." I said to her, she said nothing and just handed me the bottle again. She made sure I had some before she left to go get my parents. My parents came rushing in, my mom hugged me squeezing me so tight it hurt.

"Gunshot...stomach...hurt..." I choked out hoping she would understand. She let go of me and looked at me with tears in her eyes.

"Don't ever scare us like that again!" she said while crying, even my dad was crying, I had never seen my Dad cry before.

"It wasn't my fault!" I say jokingly even though it kind of was. They just nodded looking at the ground.

"What got you in this mess?" my dad spoke up?

"Something very complicated." Was all I said.

"Dominic told us there is something that you're not telling us. What is it?" my dad pushed, he wasn't a patient man.

"I can't tell you." I say looking anywhere but their eyes.

"Anna, you don't have a choice." My father said sternly his eyes hard as stone.

"You're right I don't because I can't tell you!"

"I said you don't have a choice meaning that you have to tell us."

"I can't, that's what got me in this mess in the first place! I told Dominic to protect him because he lives in our old house and I told Sam and Elissa because guilt was eating me alive and Sam read my journal so she got mad at me for not telling her. But that's why I got kidnapped, I can't tell anyone because it puts them in danger and I could get kidnapped again."

"No you won't the people who kidnapped you are behind bars." My mom said trying to sooth me, completely ignoring the part about them being in danger. They obviously didn't know who we were dealing with.

"They didn't tell you, did they?"

"Didn't tell us what?" my mother asked confused.

"The people who kidnapped me are members of a gang mom, if I tell anyone else I will get kidnapped again and you guys could be in danger. You never know when they are around they have eyes and ears everywhere." My parents said nothing and just sat there in shock.

"We'll talk about this later." My dad said not giving up on the subject. They left the room and shortly after Dominic came in. He was crying also, this was the 2nd time I had seen him cry. He sat next to me and held my hand, I smiled at him and he smiled back.

"I want to hug you so much right now but I'm too afraid I would hurt you too much." He said. I laughed.

"For once you're right but as usual I don't care. Come here!" I tell him pulling him into a hug, he smiled and hugged me back. Yes it hurt but I didn't care, it was bearable. Well not really, but I needed to hug him. Tears were streaming down my face partly because of the pain partly because memories fled through my mind and I hated the fact that everything had happened. All I wanted to do right now was spend time with Dominic and listen to music. I really wished I could just get up and dance around with him.