Boarding School

Chapter 20

Chelsey's POV

I didn't sleep at all last night, no one did. I was sitting on Niall's lap, he has been trying to calm me down for the past hour. I was fine one moment and the next I was a huge mess.

"Shhh princess, it's alright, she's ok" he kept drawing circles on my arm.

"Guys, I'm going for a short walk" Harry said.

He got up and walked away, he didn't say anything else. Liam has stayed silent all night, he would look at one of on occasion but wouldn't say anything.

I finally calmed down, all of the water in my body has been drained. I looked down the hallway for any sign of a doctor, nothing. One woman did catch my eye, she was blonde and short, definatly Maura.

"Niall, there's your mom" I said weakly.

I got off of Niall's lap, he stood up and I hopped on his back due to my sore ankle. As we got closer to Maura a wave a relief washed across her face, she looked so happy to see us. Niall set me down on my feet and gently as he could, Maura instantly pulled me into a hug.

"I'm so glad you're ok, Niall told me that you were out there. I'm just so happy to see that you're ok. Are you hurt anywhere though?"

"Yeah, just my ankle. It hurts really bad, I'm ok though" I said.

She looked at Niall and gave him a hug too, Niall didn't hesitate to hug back. They pulled apart and we walked back to our waiting area, Harry was already back with Liam.

I went to sit in my own chair but Niall pulled me into his lap, automatically wrapping his arms around my waist. We all quietly sat there for a while until Maura broke the silence.

"Harry, I called your mum to tell her you were ok. same with you Liam, I called your mum. I told them that you were at the hospital waiting for a friend" she paused for a while. "Chelsey, have you heard from your parents at all?"

"No, I don't have my phone. it's back in the dorm"

Just then three familiar faces showed up. Zayn, Louis, and Eleanor were all here.

"Hey guys" I said quietly.

I stood up and gave them each a hug, Louis gave me the tightest hug out of all three.

"You're alright love, yeah?" Louis asked.

"Yeah I'm ok, I just hurt my ankle" I said looking at my wounded foot.

We all sat in silence for a good fifteen minutes until the doctors came in, he looked very pleased.

"Are you guys here for Makenna?" he asked.

We all nodded.

"She's ok, it's a amazing case though. it looked like she got shot in the lung but it missed her lung, it hit her stomach. The shot had to come from above, she's a very lucky girl. She will be ok but there is one down side, she's in a coma. we don't know how long but we are guessing that it will only last a week or two" he said.

We all let out a sigh of relief, my best friend is ok.

"When can we see her?" I asked.

"You can see her now, she's down the hall in room two forty-one" he said.

We all stood up and made out way quickly down the hall. I opened the door, there was an eerie quietness in the room. I looked at the bed, sure enough my best friend was unconscious in the bed. We all piled in, I sat next to her in the chair and grabbed her hand.

"Hey Makenna, you probably can't hear me but I'm really glad you're ok. Everyone is here, I'm ok though. I'm glad you're ok" I said.

We all stood quiet waiting for a response that we knew wouldn't come, Liam took it the worst though.

"THIS JUST ISNT FAIR!" he screamed "WHY DID SHE HAVE TO GET HURT, SHE DIDN DESERVE IT AL ALL" he walked back and fourth as he yelled.

"Liam" I said walking over to him "calm down, she's ok. what's gotten into you" I said as calm as possible.

"It's just, I hate to see her like this"

"Liam, we all do"

"But Chelsey, you don't understand. I love her" he said.

I looked over at Harry, he looked furious. Harry walked up to Liam, they both were extremely pissed.

"Really Liam? you love her? I never saw you talk to her let alone be there for her like I was!" Harry said sharply.

Before things could get worse I went and stood in between them "guys, we are in a hospital and we are all tired. This isn't the time for this, we all need to be here for Makenna without conflict" I said trying to keep calm.

They both gave each other a glare and agreed, we all hung around for another couple of hours.

"Chelsey, we are going back to campus" Louis said. "You should come with us, you need the rest"

"No, I can't. You guys go, I still need to call makennas parents."

"Chelsey" Niall said coming behind me "babe, you need to sleep. being here won't do good, you can come stay in my room if you want" he said.

"You guys go, I can't leave her. I'm all she has here" I snapped.

They all surrendered and left, Zayn popped his head back in for a second to say something.

"Tomorrow Niall and I will bring you some clothes and your phone, Maura is taking all of us off campus to a hotel" he said.

"Alright" I said.

They all left, now it was just me and Makenna left in the room. I went and pulled the recliner chair next to Makenna, I unfolded it and laid down.

"Excuse me" A nurse said walking in. "I'm sorry miss but visiting hours are over"

"Please just let me say, I'm all she has. her family is in the US" I begged.

She didn't say anything else, she walked out of the room. I turned back to Makenna.

"Please wake up soon" I said.

When the nurse returned she had a pillow and a blanket for me.

"Thank you"

"I'm sorry to bother you again but there are some officers here to talk to you, they would like to talk tonight" she said.

"Ok, I'm coming"

I followed the nurse into a small white room, inside there were two police officers.

"Hello ma'am, I'm officer Newman. this is officer Johnston" the older man said.

"We are here to ask you a few questions" officer Johnston said. "Please take a seat"

I did as they asked and I took a seat at the table.

"Can you tell us what happened?"

"Well" I started "me and my friend Makenna were taking a walk because she just got back from a trip, we were walking in a field when we heard screams. We started to walk towards the screams when we heard gun shots, we started to run away. Then Makenna got shot, she fell to the ground. I dragged her over to a corner, when a ambulance came I went to it" I explained.

They just nodded.

"Can you tell us who these people are? they are the ones that did it" officer Newman took some papers out of a folder and handed them to me.

"T-those people are m-my parents"