Addict with a pen (A tøp fanfic)

·Chapter 18·

Fall finally came and the perfect fall weather had finally settled in. I was in writing club after school, one afternoon, talking with my friends that I had recently made who were passionate about writing as much as I was. We were laughing, smiling, giving each other feedback on our work.

As I was writing notes on their feedback, my phone started to vibrate in my pocket. I take it out and see that it's Mom who's calling me. I smile at the contact picture I have under her name. It's a picture of her and I, giving cheesy smiles at the camera, with her arms wrapped around me. Our eyes lighting up with pure happiness.

I answer her call and excuse myself politely from my friends.

"Hello?" I say.

"Cath, I'm on my way to get you right now. Your dad and Uncle Josh have just been in a car accident and are being taken to the hospital right now," She says with her voice cracking.

My stomach drops and my heart begins to throb. My phone drops out of my hand and my mouth opens in shock. Tears threaten to spill down my cheeks but I don't let them.

"Cath? Cath!" Mom's voice yells through the phone and I pick up my phone from the ground.

"Okay," My voice barely comes out as a whisper.

Mom comes within a minute and I run into the car and we race to the hospital.

We arrive at the hospital and we run inside, talking to the receptionist urgently, anxiously waiting to hear if they're in a hospital room.

"I'm sorry, Mrs. Joseph. Tyler Joseph and Joshua Dun are currently in the ICU. So you cannot see them at the moment."

Mom and I look each other with tears in our eyes.

"Okay, thank you," We say and take a seat in the waiting room.

The agonising hours go by so slowly and my heart continues to throb to the point where I feel like I'll stop breathing at any second.

After 5 hours pass by, a doctor walks into the waiting room and calls our name.

"The Joseph family?"

"Yes, doctor? We're here. Are Tyler and Josh okay? Please, tell me," Mom says, with pain in her voice which makes my heart throb even more.

"They are in critical condition right now. They were in a severe car accident and they are both unconscious at the moment. They will be put under observation over night and for several days. However, you may go see them now. They are both in the same room."

He tells us the room number and we run to the room, opening the door quickly.

When we enter, I begin to cry at the sight of dad and Uncle Josh.

Their eyes are shut and have bruises on their arms, chest, and a few on their face. Dad's arms are wrapped in bandages while Uncle Josh has bandages on his nose and on his head. They both have cuts on all over them. I look at the cuts and cringe at the sight of them. The cuts look horrible.

I sink down to my knees in between both of their hospital beds and begin to sob uncontrollably. I take a hold of their hands with both of them and hold them with caution.

"Mom, please tell me they'll be okay. Please. I don't know, what I would do without them. I need them, I need them.." I say in pain.

Mom pulls me into her arms and we cry together. As I sob harder and harder, she holds me tighter and tighter. She kisses my head and begins to rub my back. I begin to cough from crying so much and I try to calm down.

Mom stands up and leaves the room to get us something to drink.

I walk over to them and hold their hands again.

"Dad, Uncle Josh, please be okay. Please, please. Please, don't leave mom and I. I need you, I still need you, I'll always need you guys. You guys still have so much to teach me. There's so much for you guys to see of me as I continue to grow as a human being. Please, please, please, don't leave me. I beg of you," I plead to them, to no one in particular, in reality.

I kiss dad's and Uncle Josh's forehead. I feel my tears drop down on their foreheads as I continue to cry. My heart continues to break, each second, minute, and hour while I'm still in their presence.

And I begin to shrivel up into no one, nothing as I start to think of the worst.

I begin to crack again, into the broken human being I've known for so long.

What have I become?

I'm sorry..