Retrieving My Princess- Book 2 (Sequel to HSLP)

Departures- Chapter 7

Departures- Chapter 7

Cher's POV:

Two weeks have gone by since Ariel almost left us. She's been quite stable. Her heart rate has stayed constant, and we've been rotating on staying overnight. Eleanor talked to her boss on what was going on, and he gladly accepted to give her every Thursday off. Dani gets every Wednesday off and Scarlet gets every Monday off along with the lads. I get Tuesday's off with Perrie. So pretty much our schedule is like this:

Monday nights: Mary, Perrie, and I

Tuesday nights: Mary, Dani, and Niall

Wednesday nights: Mary, Eleanor, and Louis

Thursday nights: Mary, Perrie, and Zayn

Friday nights: Scarlet, Harry, and Niall

Saturday nights: Liam, Louis, and Zayn

Sunday nights: Harry, Dani, Liam, and I

The schedule worked perfectly except the only unfair part was that Mary gets Ariel four nights straight. The lads sacrificed their sleeping during the week and they claimed they could make it through rehearsals without sleeping... Yeah that didn't go so well... Let's just say that they had to work a lot harder in order to not rehearse while on tour. Speaking about their tour, they actually start tomorrow. The lads and Scarlet head off on the tour bus to the O2 arena around six in the morning. The lads will have a quick rehearsal with their opening act, 5 Seconds of Summer, and relax for the rest of the day until the concert. Well, at least they will try to relax. We are all on edge making sure Ariel doesn't die on us again. One more time... That's all she has. She only had one more chance to be revived. I truly hope nothing happens while the lads and Scarlet are gone.

Since we will have six less people helping us, we've decided to ask three other people for help. We asked Ariel's parents and Logan. We haven't heard about Logan for awhile, but we did talk to him while Ariel was kidnapped. He was extremely worried to say the least. Luckily, Logan should be here the day after tomorrow. He somehow got a month off of filming in order to help us. Ariel's parents when they heard of our situation, they immediately said yes. So we decided to make the following schedule while our six friends were gone:

Monday nights: Mary, Perrie, and I

Tuesday nights: Logan, Dani, and Queen Cassidy

Wednesday nights: Mary, Eleanor, and King Thomas

Thursday nights: Mary, Perrie, and Logan

Friday nights: Logan, Eleanor, and I

Saturday nights: Mary, Dani, and Queen Cassidy

Sunday nights: Logan, King Thomas, and I

Even though they aren't helping much, at least they are trying. We completely understand that they can't because they do have Baby Alexander to look after. I've also helped them out by playing a lot with Baby Alexander. Harry helped this week as well, and let's just say that Baby Alexander loves us both. He squeals whenever he sees us. It's sad though that he won't see Harry right now until they have a couple of days off again. I'll continue visiting him though. I want to distract him from Ariel. I need to prepare him for the worst that can happen.

I turned to look at everyone in Ariel's hospital room. We were talking quietly and every once in awhile Lou would say something to make us laugh. How were we going to do it once they left tomorrow? Visiting hours were almost over, and we still didn't know who was going to stay tonight. Normally it would be Scarlet, Harry, and Niall, but now I think I'm going to volunteer. I knew we were all thinking the same thing because we kept looking at the clock every five minutes. I decided to break the ice, and spoke up. "So, who's staying tonight? I don't mind staying. I don't care if I look like a zombie tomorrow during my magazine interview."