Flawless Liar

Chapter Five

"Excuse me?" The voice was faint and unrecognizable as it spoke. I groaned as I slowly opened my eyes to see who was speaking. Ava had fallen asleep on the ground in front of the chairs and I was laying with my head against the wall in the hospital waiting room. When I realized there was a doctor standing in front of me, I regained my composure and quickly woke myself up. I groaned, my head felt as though it weighed 50 lbs and I could feel the kink in my neck beginning to form as I came back into consciousness. 

"Yes, sorry." Deep down I had a feeling that I knew exactly what this doctor was going to tell me and I didn't know if I was ready to hear it or not.

"Zayne Reynolds, we were able to stabilize him and he's currently recovering in ICU. He broke some ribs and has a sprained wrist, but he was lucky. He's been put under anesthesia and should be waking up here in the next couple hours. You may go back to his room, but be aware that it could be awhile before he wakes up and he may not remember what happened when he does. He's in room 107." With that the doctor smiled and walked back down the hallway with not much emotion to follow. The doctors had refused to give us any information unless we were family, but somehow Ava had managed to convince them to at least give us updates. Seeing as how we hadn't left the hospital they were now allowing us to visit. 

Quickly, I stood up disturbing Avalon and rushing down the hallway searching for Zayne's room. Relief was not attainable until I saw Zayne alive and breathing again. I had fallen asleep thinking that Zayne might be dead and now knowing he was alive I just wanted to feel the relief flood through me. When I finally reached the correct room, I opened the door as quickly as possible with my eyes immediately landing on Zayne covered up in bed. I was frozen in the doorway for a moment, my brain was processing all of the information as quickly as possible, but it was a lot to take in. As I got closer I saw the bruising and cuts on his face, his wrist had been taped up, but he was breathing and that was what mattered the most. Looking around the room I found a chair in the corner and pulled it closer to his bed, I grabbed his okay hand in mine and leaned against the mattress. I kept waiting for a sigh of relief, any kind of sign that my anxiety was going to come to a close, but it never came. I couldn't sleep because I was realizing that nobody was safe if they came in to contact with me. I let my feelings get the better of me and as a result I was sitting next to an innocent man who could've easily just lost his life because of my actions. I realized that I couldn't stay here any longer, the longer I was here the more unsafe Zayne was. I needed to distance myself immediately.

I took one last long look at Zayne in an attempt to feel some sort of relief and left the room closing the door behind me. My hand rested on the door knob for a while as I thought about giving in and staying by Zayne's side despite all the threats and attempts being made against his life, then I realized that this thought process of mine was the reason he was currently lying in a hospital. It was wrong of me to be so selfish. The killer was after me, they didn't want to kill me because instead they wanted to watch me suffer slowly. This was a game for them and by isolating me from anyone that I remotely felt safe around, they were winning. I was realizing more and more that there was nobody around who could help me because by helping me they were placing their own life in the line of fire, Zayne was trying to solve the mystery and help me, he was the closest to finding a real answer and he was now lying in a hospital bed after almost losing his life. With this realization, I knew I was more alone now than I had ever been before.

"Alana? Is everything okay?" Avalon came into my line of vision looking quite concerned. I realized I was standing in the hospital hallway staring at the ground.

"Yeah. I um, I'm fine. Just shocked, I think I need to go home."

"Are you sure that's where you should be? I don't want to take you home to an empty house where you'll just be worried the entire time." Avalon knew something was wrong, it was a sister thing.