Jerks Care?

The Shocking Disappointment

Lucy's P.O.V.

I stood frozen. 

Frozen in movement.

Frozen in thought. 

Because of one person. 

Ashton.

I watched Kinsey closely as she quickly regained her self from Ashton's sudden outburst. 

"Or what?" She said a slight smirk pulling on her lips. 

"Kinsey." Ashton's pounding voice came again, slightly ringing in everyone's ears. I jumped a bit at the sound. Kinsey let loose a little shiver. 

"Don't Kinsey me Ashton. I'm your girlfriend you should be on my side." Her voice yelled, but certainly didn't have the same affect on everybody else, but the harshness in her tone did cause some girls to step away a bit. 

I kept my eyes glued on Kinsey, and she did the same. I couldn't tear my eyes away out of fear, but something in my was telling me that she just wanted to watch me squirm so her eyes nailed to me, never taking a brake from her piercing glare. 

She took a threatening step towards me. I didn't budge for two reasons, one because I was froze in place, terrified of what would come next, and two, my heals already threatened the pools edge. I thought back to seeing how deep the pool was where I had previously sat. The bottom was much to far down for anyone of a normal high to touch, and I was, to put it in a kind way, shorter than average. 

"Kinsey! Don't!" Ashtons voice boomed again, but Kinseys eyes were now blanketed in a darker color, anger. I felt her fingers on my shoulders giving me a light push, but that's all it took. I placer a foot behind myself to stop the inevitable. I felt nothing but air beneath it. I was falling, and it was to late. I closed my eyes, and one sentence was rolling through my head.

I can't swim.

I can't swim.

I. Can't. Swim.

Splash!

It is beyond to late.

I felt my body slowly sink. I opened my eyes, but only to see small bubbles all around me mixed with the turning water.

Which way is up?

I heard screams, and a booming voice. 

Ashton's no doubt about it. 

 I felt my eyelids begin to feel heavy. The feeling was so familiar. I fought to keep them open. The need to gasp for air was growing in me, and I pushed against the urge. No. I'm not letting this happen I waved my arm around to avail. I was sinking.  

My lungs began controlling my body. 

I need air. 

I gasped in a large lung filling amount of water. 

My eye's started closing slowly.

Splash!

What was that? 

My eyes shot back open, and widely.

A hand wrapped around my wrist as my eyes won the battle and shut, but not before I felt a water rushing around me. I was getting rescued.

Ashton's P.O.V.

I pushed her up on the side of the pool. Making sure to place her gently. 

I pulled myself up, and sat beside her. 

What next? What do I do next? I remember the CPR course dad had forced me to attend, and suddenly was beyond grateful. MY body went to auto pilot. I tilted her head back slightly, and put my ear next to her head. Nothing. My heavy heart beat was all I could hear. I put my hands in CPR position, and began pumping. 

"One. Two. Three. Four. Five. Six. Seven. Eight. Nine. Ten. Eleven." My voice said in small huffs with ever count. "Please Lucy, please. Twelve. Thirteen. Fourteen. Fifteen." Coughing flooded my ears drawing my attention to Lucy's mouth pushing water out of it. I tilted her head so it could freely come out. I watched as water came out of her mouth. 

"Lucy?" Sammy says now kneeling beside me. 

Finally shes stops coughing, and her breathing becomes normal. 

"Lets get her to a hospital. Now." I say still scanning Lucy's face. 

I pick her up bridal style, and rush her to my car. Flashes of the last time I did this rushed back into my meomory. The last time I put her in harms way. The last time I was faced with my own idioticness. The last time I thought maybe I had gone to far. Regret flushed over me. Agian this was my fault. Maybe she'd best with Rydon. Just maybe. Maybe this is a sign tht I over reacted. Maybe I shiouldnt have pulld her away from the only thing able to mak her laugh scince she got her. Something turned inside of my stomach making me think maybe she was never able to laugh. 

This was my fault once again. 

I sat her gently in my passenger seat, and ran around the car to the drivers seat. I saw sammy running toward the car. How fast had I gotten to the car? I have no clue, and I wasn't waiting for Sammy to catch up. Before I knew what was going on the car was on, out of the drive way, and I was going a hundred down the road towards the Hospital. 

Lucy's P.O.V.

'Ma'am are you okay?" A soft gentle voice asked me. 

My eyes fluttered open, and scanned the hospital room. It was small, one door parallel to the foot of my bed, and the other to my left. To the right beside my head was a monitor, and to my left beside my head were I.V. bags. I noticed a chair in the right corner by the door, and also two directly deride by bed on either side of me. Lovely. Back at the hospital. I could see a figure standing by my bed, and slowly my eyes focused on the 60 year old woman with soft gray hair, and kind chestnut eyes. She had a mildly plump figure, and my awake state seemed to bring joy to her because her smile grew to the size of a young boy's on Christmas. 

"Honey, I'm going to go get the doctor, and then will see about letting your friends in okay?"

I shook my head yes much faster than necessary, and she walked out of the room leaving it quiet. Dangerously quiet. The kind of quiet when you have no choice but to think. The kind of quiet most people like, but not me. I hate this kind of quiet. It seemed to swallow me until it was washed away by the doctor i had given my life over to. 

" I won rock paper scissors, and I get to have your case agian." He said walking in the room with a bright smile on his face. I chuckled a bit. Something about Steven and Mary always comferted me. They made me feel comforted. Cared for. 

After he check my charts, and he'd done a full check up, he decide letting in my vistiors was okay. I waited in my room once again absorbing the quiet once again. The uneasy, nonenjoyable quite. 

"Hey." Said a voice that completely through me off.

What? 

Disappointment flooded my veins. 

Why was Rydon disappointing me? 

The question didn't really need to be asked.

The answer was rather obvious. 

He wasn't Ashton.

But still a smile shined brightly on my lips because he was the had  made me laugh when my only friend here had completely abandoned me. 

Rydon's voice caused me shocking disappointment, and surprising joy. 

~Author's Note~ 

So I don't like schedules... I thought I would, but I couldn't stick with it! So how about I will update sometime around the weekend? I hope that works for everybody! Oh Em Gee! 250,000! What? You guys are incredible! Thank you all! Thank you for reading, and gifting me with a reason to smile everymoring. And thank you for all the sweet things you post on instagram! Just thank you!

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