Imperfections- JLS Aston fanfic

Part 14

*Astons point of view*

*1 hour later*

No one was saying anything, I was sat next to her bedside in silence, everywhere was silent. But the deadly silence made me understand that this was serious…she was incredibly ill…and I couldn’t do anything about it. You would have thought for a busy central hospital it would be noisy and busy…but it was like a ghost town; the only noise coming from the beeping monitors on ICU, that little beep that monitored the precious lives of the people in the unit…Cassie’s being one of them.

‘Any news on her condition?’ I asked as one of the nurses popped into the room

‘The doctor should be with you shortly…he’s got the results from the tests so we should be able to treat her now’ she explained

‘Ok…thankyou…’ I sighed glancing back at Cassie. Wires on her chest, a heart monitor beside her and an oxygen mask over her beautiful face…how had she come to this without me realising how ill she was making herself? It didn’t make any sense…nothing did anymore…

‘Mr Merrygold?’ an older looking man came into the room

‘Yes?’

‘Im Doctor Young’ he said ‘I have Cassie’s test results back…I was wondering whether I could go through them with you?’

‘Of course’ I stuttered getting up off my seat and walking towards him so we were at the bottom of Cassie’s bed.

‘The blood tests show that Cassie’s taken Cocaine….’

‘Cocaine?’ I choked in shock

‘Im afraid so’ he sighed ‘but if that wasn’t dangerous enough…our test results show she’s taken the entire contents of what was in that bag…any amount is dangerous but I’d say she’s taken at least 5 times more than other cases ive had like this’

‘5?....’ I stuttered ‘Is she going to be ok?’ I gulped

‘If she gets the right treatment and quickly then I’d say so...but im afraid I’ve had to diagnose her with anorexia nervosa as well’ he said

‘What?!’ I breathed

‘Her body has become brittle and weak very quickly because of the weight loss…she’s seriously underweight…so underweight it has become a big issue…she’ll need to stay in hospital for about a month until she puts some weight on…she’s too weak to leave’

‘Oh god…’ I stuttered

‘Are you aware of any bulimia related incidents?’

‘No….I…I don’t think she would do that….she usually comes to me if she has problems?’

‘We wont be able to understand what has caused the sudden weight loss until she’s awake and we can talk to her’

‘When do you think she’ll wake up?’

‘I cant say….but im hoping it will be soon…we need to talk to her ourselves before the police question her…and there already here’ he said causing me to look towards the window in the door, seeing two police officers standing outside, shit…she could end up with a jail sentence…all because she’d taken a wrong turn and ended up down the wrong path…the path of destruction and pain…

The clock continued to tick by, and slowly it was getting later and later and still no change. The beeping of the monitors had almost become soothing in the room; because I knew as long as they continued to beep…Cassie was still alive…

*Cough*

Suddenly I heard a noise coming from where Cassie was lying…she coughed, her eyes opening slowly showing pain and worry…

‘Aston…’ she breathed

‘I’ll go and get a nurse’ I stuttered running as fast as I could out of the room. My emotions were too high right now to deal with any of this…I needed to make sure Cassie was ok physically before we starting talking things through…I needed to know she was going to be ok…