~Chapter 20~
-HUNTERS P.O.V-
"Hayley got into an accident." She whispers before falling into my arms crying as I stand there shocked. "Skylar, I'm so sorry. Cmon let's go see her." I say shakily and she nods and stands and she cries still. I hold her as we walk to Natalie's room and I pick her up, her messy blonde hair falling over her shoulder onto her white PJ shirt that had a black bow and her tight black PJs pants with white polka dots. I grab her diaper bag and find Skylar already went down stairs. I grab the keys and we walk into the garage and I put Natalie, who's sleeping, into her car seat and her head hangs to the side. Skylar gets in the passenger seat and she covers her face and leans over crying. I get in and rub her back slowly, "she'll be okay," I say and she shakes her head. "She has to be." She whispers and I begin to drive never taking my hand from her back and she never changes position as we drive and the only thing that could be heard was her breathing that became jagged with her sobs. We soon arrive at the hospital and I take Natalie and the diaper bag out of the back seat and Skylar walks ahead of me through the doors. "Hi excuse me I'm looking for Hayley, she was in a car accident earlier this evening." Skylar whispers still crying. "Uh." The nurse says looking at her computer and Skylar shakes and I wrap my free arm around her. "She went into surgery, we are suspecting that Hayley will be fine, but the little one inside her took the impact pretty hard." The nurse says. "I'm sorry, but we will keep you updated as things happen." The nurse adds and Skylar stands there shaking and she covers her mouth before bursting into tears again. I help her walk over to the chairs and I put my jacket down as a pillow and lay Natalie down on it spreading her legs across the one of the chairs in the empty waiting room then I stand and hold Skylar. "It'll be okay Sky, it'll all be okay." I say but she just shakes and cries. "Skylar calm down, she'll be okay." I say and she wraps her arms around my neck and we stand there alone in the empty waiting room. The white walls and the cool feeling didn't help with sadness that seemed to hang in the room as Skylar cried on my shoulder and I held her as she shook. Our daughter laid asleep in the hospital chairs, and I knew somewhere in those rooms was my best friend praying to god that Hayley would be okay, that his daughter would be okay. I knew because I had been in that position before. The images ran through my mind of Skylar laying there on the bed, her body lifeless as she held on with the little she had left. I knew what he was going through, hell. Watching your love, your life, slip away from you, it kills you, slowly. I felt my heart ache for him as I said a prayer for Hayley, Sam, and Skylar, that everything would be all right. Skylar never once stopped crying or shaking as I held her, as she broke. Soon she stopped crying and she was just standing there shaking as the thoughts on whether her best friend was alive or not ran through her head. The best friend that was supposed to be opening the store with her tomorrow. The best friend that she leaned on when I couldnt be there for her. Her co-worker, her maid of honor, her sister. I held her together as she wanted to fall apart, and I knew that if I weren't there she would've. "Skylar..." I whisper and she shakes her head. Her eyes puffy and red and her hair a mess. I couldn't stand to see her like this, broken. I sit down and pull her to me as she curls into a ball and shakes in my arms and I hoped she would try and sleep but I knew that she wouldn't. I look over at Natalie who's asleep her hair falling over her face and she is taking heavy breaths as she sleeps. I wish she would never lose that innocence, that ignorance. Not knowing is bliss, because sometimes knowledge hurts more then it helps. You can see the happiness on her face, and I wish she would never lose that, though I knew she would, everyone does, its called growing up. Getting older, and having to deal with the weight of the world. Happiness isn't something people can just always be, happiness is something given to you at moments throughout life, and when you are truly happy you have to cherish it, because sooner or later the darkness clouds over and we are stuck again in the same repeating pattern, stuck. The pattern between happiness and sadness, called life. I guess I had no control over that fact, because no matter what I do, things will always turn out the same because that's the path God has set out for us. There's no way to change what happens, but it will still break you. I could tell Skylar broke, because there's a difference between hurt and broke. Broken means you have shut down, you have given up. Hurt just simply means you hurt, not hurt as in an injury, but your heart hurts. I could tell Skylar is feeling what I felt when I held her hand as she almost died in front me. I could see the look on her face that was the same look on mine as I watched her motionless. That same feeling of shutting down, of giving up. I could tell by the way her heart beat, slowly. "Skylar shell be okay." I say looking at her and she didn't say a word, she continued to stare at her shaking hands. I was waiting, waiting for the nurse to call us over and tell us she was out of surgery and okay, to tell us she was awake. Sadly all it was, was waiting, no news, no information. The silence hung and it hurt. As I held Skylar and all these thoughts ran through my head of what I felt, what I still feel, I realized that I was broken as well. That is until I heard the nurses voice. "Shes out of surgery." She said and I didn't know whether Hayley was okay or not but a small part of the weight on my heart, on my mind, was lifted.
