A Mermaid's Kiss (ON HOLD)

Chapter 2

Chapter 2

Jake’s POV

            My phone started to vibrate in my pocket. I pulled it out wondering who was calling me. The caller id read Dad and for a moment I thought about not answering it.

            Then though I decided I should. He would only call me if there was an emergency, right? Last I heard though, Mom and Dad were in France and wouldn’t be back until four more days. This was odd, they usually never interrupted their trip to call. I wonder what was wrong.

            Oh well I thought and hit answer. “Jake?” my dad asked.

            “Hey dad,” I said. “What’s up?” Class was about to start so he had better make this quick.

            “Jake, I just thought you should know that Maia is in the hospital. Owen called and told me she had a seizure.”

            “Is she okay?!” I cried. This can’t be happening, I thought. How in the world did this even happen. Why to her?!

            “I don’t know the details of how she is, Owen probably knows so talk to him. She’s at the hospital right in town. Your mom and I will finish our trip and come and see her as soon as we get back. We hope she gets better.” He said and then I heard my mom in the background calling him back to bed. “Well Jake your mom needs me, bye son.”

            I didn’t even have time to say goodbye before he hung up. I snarled in disgust at my parents who didn’t even have the decency to cut their trip short when their daughter was is the hospital after having a seizure! This was just like them. I can remember all the birthdays they missed, sending presents from wherever they were in the world when really all you ever wanted as a kid was for your parents to be there themselves. I remember once I had fallen from a tree and broken my arm and when my nanny called to tell them they didn’t even bother to ask how I was doing. The only thing they really did was complain that it was three o’ clock in the morning where they were and we were rude to wake them up so early.

            I angrily slammed my phone into my pocket and pushed back my chair, barely registering the screeching sound as I did so. I picked up my backpack and swung it over my shoulder. I brushed pass Alison and she seemed slightly annoyed that I cut off her talking. I walked up to the teacher’s desk, who was glaring at me for interrupting her class. I leaned down and whispered, “Family issues. I have to go.”

            I didn’t even give her time to reply, just walked out the door hearing her stutter behind me in surprise. I raced out down the halls and out the front doors of the school. I pulled the keys to my sliver corvette out of my pocket and unlocked the door. I hurriedly pulled it open and slid onto the leather seats, I pulled it out of the parking space and speeded towards the hospital.

            Soon I had pulled into the parking lot and jumped out, barely remembering to lock it. I rushed through the front doors and walked up to the reception desk. “Room number for Maia Holder,” I demanded the lady at the desk.

            As soon as she told me, I was off, bolting down the hall. I dodged nurses and doctors, who were yelling at me to quit running, and pushed past an old lady that had stumbled into the hallway.

            I caught the elevator just as the doors were closing and slid in next to a pregnant woman who had one hand on her belly and the other pressing the third floor button. Her husband stood next to her and glared at my abrupt entrance. I reached across them and pressed the 2 and up the elevator went. We came to a sudden stop and ding announced that I had arrived at my floor just as the doors slid open. I hurried out and dashed down the hall reading the numbers as I went until I found the one I was looking for. I didn’t even bother to knock, instead slamming open the door. And there she was. Lying peacefully on the bed in a large white hospital gown. Owen, her husband, was holding her hand and whispering to her. She smiled in reply. They both looked up when I entered and she gave me a frown.