Meant To Be

Chapter 11

CARRIE}

"Alex!" I yell finally spotting him walking out of a room, it's been a couple hours since Alex walked in on Dan and I - I don't even know what was happening; and after walking me out he 'had to go somewhere.' Oh god, he's mad, he saw, he though, he- "babe," Alex puts his arm around me and hugs me, "are you alright?" "Ye-yeah, fine," I say back, "I just thought your were mad at me" I blush realizing how stupid I was being. There is nothing and never will be anything between Dan and I. "Why would at be mad?" Alex cocks his head, "nothing," I quickly avoid getting into the subject, "where did you go? You were gone for awhile." "Oh," Alex pats his pocket, "I lost my phone, I was just looking for it," he smiles. "Oh ok," I smile back, "you hungry?" Alex asks, I just nod and Alex closes the door of the room he walked out of. While closing it the doctors file taped to the door flew off, I reached down to pick it up: Patient: Lexi May. I stop, "is something wrong?" I hear Alex ask, "no- uh no nothing" I smile at him slide the file under the door and stand up, "nothing," I say again. What was Alex doing in my sisters room? Why would his phone be in her room?

{DAN}

I limp through the halls, everything feels stiff and walking is tough. All lights are off, the hospital reeks of an eery feeling, using my phone as a flashlight I look for room 403. Once on the fourth floor, I look for Lexi's name on the room door. Room 403, but there was no name, I shrug to myself and open the door. I take on step and slip on something, I'm falling face forward towards the ground, flailing my arms like a boneless creature and with a massive thud I hit the ground. I groan whilst I hear laughing, "oh shit Dan," more giggles, "that," a pause, "was priceless." I groan again and hear someone walking, Lexi I assume, the ceiling light is turned on and blinds me, "Lexi fuck," I moan, I roll over so I'm laying on my back and I try to function my limbs. The laughing dies and Lexi sits down next to me on the floor, "are you ok though?" She asks seriously, "now you care?" I respond, "I'm fine, I think." "ok," says Lexi.

Lexi moves again and is now laying down next to me, a couple minutes of silence pass. "So how are you doing?" Lexi asks, "I'm .. recovering," I reply lamely. More silence. "Thanks," Lexi whispers, so quiet I barely heard, but I heard. I sighed and scooted closer to Lexi, "no problem," I whispered back as she put her head on my chest. We say nothing as I hold her whilst her tears soaked my shirt, but she needed me so I didn't care. Lexi slowly stops crying and hiccups a couple times before her breathing becomes normal again, I then remember why I was here anyway, Lexi meant to tell me something about Alex.

"So-" I start to ask about Alex but am interrupted by Lexi's lips crashing on to mine. I lose track of whatever I was thinking and kiss her back. Lexi places herself on top of me and we continue to kiss, as my hands travel down her back and up her shirt, and hers are lifting my shirt over my head. Lexi's breath hitches as she catches sight of my bloody bandage. "Oh fuck William, shit Dan, oh god, I can't..." She backs away from me abruptly, sits down on her bed holding her head in her hands and keeps mumbling to herself. I stand up, walk over to Lexi and sit down next to her. I grab her hands and start rubbing them, Carrie wrote in an email once that rubbing her hands calms her down during a panic attack, I don't know if I was helping Lexi at all but it was worth a shot. I look at her "William?" I ask, "the asshole who did this to you," she points at my bandage. "Oh," I nod, Lexi takes a deep breath.

"I've been with him since the 9th grade, he was the school hottie and I was just a band geek. You can imagine the shock when he asked me out and we became an item. Things were great, I loved him, he told me he loved me, he was the sweetest guy I knew and he made me happy. Then things got complicated when I was dealing with family issues and kept threatening to leave. When I did leave, I didn't tell him and was scared as hell when she showed up at the motel I was crashing in. He told me he hated me for leaving him, and that I was lucky he was willing to forgive me. So we moved into the shitty excuse of an apartment together. Things weren't the same though, we would fight all the time, his temper toke over and he would throw things; at first he would apologize and feel ashamed but when he realized I would always forgive him he stopped feeling bad.

Then when I told him I wanted to break up he hit me and kept hitting me. Throughout the years William would find different ways to scare me into staying with him: cuts, burns, bruises. I felt powerless and didn't defend myself, I kept telling myself that he would change, that if I stayed with him he would become the guy from 9th grade again. The worst part is, he has become a part of me, everything I do or think I can tie back to William. He will haunt me forever, and I will love him forever, and I hate that I love him, but I love him"

Lexi finishes and she's sobbing. I'm speechless, and all I do is sit there holding her. This, I think, is a mess.

{CARRIE}

carrie, meet me at starbucks in 5 -phil

Hmm, what was so important that Phil needed me this late? I wasn't sleeping anyway so I shot him a quick text back, pulled on a sweater and headed towards the door. "Babe," I tapped Alex who was half asleep on the couch, "I'm heading out, I won't be back late." "Who are you going to see? Where? Why so late? What's so urgent?" Alex rambles on, "whoa," I interrupt him, "what's with the 20 questions, I'm just off to Starbucks." I roll my eyes as I shut the door, "call me if anything!" Alex yells, "I know, I know," I mutter to myself.

Bells ring as I walk into the cosy Starbucks. I spot Phil right away at the table near the windows. "Hi Phil," I smile as I sit across from him, "Carrie," he nods, "want anything?" Phil gestures to the people queueing, "nah, I've eaten, thanks though."

Phil and I met at the hospital, I figure Dan probably told him about me since he called me screaming when he found out Lexi and Dan were in trouble. We talked for awhile, though he wasn't the most pleasant of people, getting over a heart break Dan told me.

"You wanted to talk to me?" I break the silence, "oh yeah," Phil replies. "Stay away from Dan," Phil cut right to it, no sugarcoating what-so-ever. Ouch. "S-sorry, what?" I ask, "jeez Carrie it's simple: stay away from Dan. Don't talk to him, don't see him, stop

fucking emailing him." "What the hell Phil. What's wrong with you? Why can't I talk to Dan?" I'm so confused. "Maybe because of this," Phil shoves his phone in my face, and I have to blink a couple times to focus on the text message shown.

phil - convince carrie to stay away from dan. if i find her in any contact with him.. lets just say i can do a lot of harm

*image*

"That's a picture of my fucking flat Carrie," Phil is pissed mad, "this psychopath knows where I live, I'm not fucking risking my life because you're torn between two guys." I stare at Phil, stare at the phone, back at Phil, and back at the phone. I look at the number, unknown of course. 403, the number of Lexi's room at the hospital, but also the last three digits of Alex's phone number. I'm filled with anxieties as I jot down the phone number on a spare napkin, mutter a million apologies to Phil and rush out of the Starbucks. As I walk back to my apartment I'm praying that it's a coincidence, that the number isn't Alex's, that my gut feeling is wrong. But I have to find out for sure what that hell is going on.

A/N: I'M FINALLY UPDATING ~ i'm sorry i'm sorry please don't hate mee 😞 but i'm finally done with projects, exams, and sem 1 of school! i'm in paris atm and having a pretty good time 👍 MERRY CHRISTMAS & A HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL MY BURRITOS 🎉🎉 seriously i love you guys 1.2k reads?!?? and thanks thanks for the wonderful comments hehe ~ so here's chapter 11 and i had such fun writing it haha i think phil is my fave. so as usual 謝謝 (thankyou) for reading this far! add this story to your library to be notified when i update ~ comment & vote .. i'm out its 1am lol oups X

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